Hello loyal fans and readers. Time has been tight as of late and as a result the blog posts have been few and far between as you'll have no doubt noticed and more than likely fretted over. Never fear however as I do have several, in fact, posts on the go, including a couple of posts related to Pemulis's brother's music interests and aspirations, and thoughts on the upcoming growth of his, Pemulis's that is, family. But for now, it's been so long and I don't want my site's ranking to suffer due to staleness/inactivity, or to lose any dedicated readers, and so while waiting for some important results to come in here at work I am taking a few moments to update the readers, without whom I'm just another Internet-voice-in-the-void yelling into a black hole, on the comings and goings and happenings and what-have-you in our fair lives.
Since the disaster of the 140 km Kungsbacka bike race, I have been upping my cycling training to be able to compete at a more elite level by joining the advanced bike outings of the members of the MRRC. That seems to be going rather well (we will get more feedback in the acid test of the upcoming Tegernsee Olympic Triathlon in 10 days time) but unfortunately it has left me little to no time to keep up the running. That's the problem with this whole triathlon thing: tri apparently means "three" and having to train for three sports when also maintaining a full time job is a major drag. This, I believe, explains why the original Ironman pros were beach bums and retired military guys -- the type of dudes who had time for training all day long.
Last weekend Sandi and I finally, after nearly two years in Munich, visited the world famous Deutsches Museum. This museum is the largest science and technology museum in the world and the main entrance sits next to the Isar river less than a twenty minute walk from our home. We had a rainy Saturday and so the time was finally just right. We saw boats (both real and model-size), planes, military jets, helicopters, balloons (weather, hot-air, etc.), zeppelins, satellites, rockets, spacecraft, weather radar stuff, mechanical clocks, weights and measurements, and a bunch of other stuff, but only managed to visit about 1/4 of the entire museum before it closed and we had to leave. Pretty cool place. And since we've only seen such a small portion of what is available, it would be a great attraction for would-be visitors to attend with us on those would-be visitors' next visit. Much more logical than, say, Neuschwanstein castle where I've been approximately seven hundred and twelve thousand nine hundred and eight times now, and could lead the tour myself if they allowed it.
This afternoon after work, Sandra and I will make our way on the local S-Bahn train to the Munich International Airport for a short flight to Nice (or "Nizza" as the Germans call it). We will spend the next five days on the beautiful Côte d'Azur where we will stay in Antibes and cheer on our friend Thony in the Ironman France in Nice (which takes place on Sunday). It will be really nice to be sitting on a terrace drinking cold beer and watching other people suffer in a race, instead of the more standard other way around. We also hope to spend some time sitting on the beach and perhaps even do some swimming in the sea!
For now I believe that's everything that may be pertinent for you to apprise yourself of, and coincidentally it's also all the time I have right now. Enjoy the summer weather and we look forward to visiting Canada in exactly two months time! Until then... (but don't worry, hopefully there will be more blog posts before then!)