I did a Christmas Eve ride yesterday down here in central Louisiana. The cold weather followed me down here from northwest Arkansas. Temperature just barely broke 40 yesterday. Total ride was 38 miles along backwoods roads and the bayous. Last night we watched several different Christmas music presentations on the tube.

We opened goodies this morning. Santa was attentive to my request and delivered a copy of Zinn and the Art of Roadbike Maintenance He also left a GPS device which will do everything except pedal the bike. It will take me a week just to learn how to turn it on

Weather looks reasonable for today, so there may be a Christmas day ride in the works.

The eating binge which commenced last week at work has not subsided; in fact, it's getting worse... Mom's fudge, the wife's home made Texas Millionaires, chocolate chip cookies, peanut brittle, glazed pecans, peppered pecans, pecan pie...

Merry Christmas!