{"id":293,"date":"2007-06-01T20:53:47","date_gmt":"2007-06-02T00:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/2007\/06\/01\/power-races\/"},"modified":"2007-06-01T20:53:47","modified_gmt":"2007-06-02T00:53:47","slug":"power-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/2007\/06\/01\/power-races\/","title":{"rendered":"Power Races"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My niece, A, is thoroughly excited about <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/powerkidstriathlon.racesonline.com\/\">tomorrow&#8217;s race<\/a>, but right now Uncle Moose is Uncle Meanie; I made her go brush her teeth.<\/p>\n<p>Got down to Richmond without incident in the big, black Dodge Earth Destroyer 2007 (aka a Nitro, I think) that I rented for the occasion.  Did lots of thinking about what type of car I&#8217;d actually get if I had to get one, and came to the conclusion that I&#8217;m thankful I don&#8217;t need one on a regular basis.<\/p>\n<p>Packet pickup went well and was pretty easy. I saw the race official I&#8217;d met back in February who let me know about this event. We also tried to go for Chinese, but it was a buffet (ew!), so ended up down the street at a nice little Vietnamese place for tons of tofu. A is actually quite excited to have tofu these days; definitely not your normal 10 year old. My parents are currently trying a vegan diet in order to try and control Dad&#8217;s diabetes and both of their weight issues. So my brother is the sole omnivore in the immediate family at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a bit worried about my bike for the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/powersprint.racesonline.com\/\">race<\/a>. I&#8217;m going to have to spend some time tomorrow looking at the front tire. I had my third flat in two weeks when I went to load the bike this afternoon, and I suspect something is not fitting correctly, or is otherwise rubbing the tube around the stem because the first two (I&#8217;ve not yet confirmed this with the latest flat &#8211; I just packed it flat) both had holes right near the base of the stem. Very annoying. So I&#8217;ll dig in there and see if anything&#8217;s come loose or is now rough or the like. Getting tired of replacing tubes, especially since the first one in there lasted almost a year and a half and the last two less than a week each.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I heard from my <em>object d&#8217;crush<\/em> this evening as well. He and his friends are down at Gay Days at Disney this weekend, and it sounds like they&#8217;re having a good time thus far. Was nice to get an email from him when we got settled and logged back online this evening.<br \/>\nWe&#8217;re headed to bed now, with dusk not yet settled, because we&#8217;ve got to be up at 5:30 for the race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My niece, A, is thoroughly excited about tomorrow&#8217;s race, but right now Uncle Moose is Uncle Meanie; I made her go brush her teeth. Got down to Richmond without incident in the big, black Dodge Earth Destroyer 2007 (aka a Nitro, I think) that I rented for the occasion. Did lots of thinking about what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,48,22,45,15,14,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diet","category-family","category-food","category-racing","category-relationships","category-sleep","category-triathlon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}