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Jul. 7th, 2008 11:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
electriclandGood weekend! ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
life_on_queen and I watched Stage 1 of the Tour de France on TVzilla at her place (following a meal of asparagus, steak frites, and strawberries with sour cream and brown sugar. I LOVE going over to her mum's for dinner). I like watching the Tour de France, for many reasons:
1. Pretty pretty French scenery.
2. Sometimes hysterical commentary from Versus (via OLN).
3. Oh thank God that isn't me riding 200+ km up a mountain today.
4. Tactics, tradition etc. are actually quite fascinating.
5. Mental workout involved in keeping track of which team is wearing which outfits.
6. So many of the team names are such fun to say: Liquigas! Bouygues! Euskadie Euskaltel!
In which spirit, please welcome Team Garmin Chipotle to the 2008 Tour, not only because their name is Team Garmin Chipotle and the world can always use more of that, but because their outfits are argyle. Yes. Argyle.
I have made a start on our annual cheat sheet to help with point 5. Some teams' outfits are helpfully labelled (thank you Cofidis and CSC) but some are really not, and others look entirely different from behind. Also, someone should tell Saunier Duval to lose the yellow and white uniforms, because they really are confusing.
Also, my parents mowed and weeded my lawn and trimmed my hedge yesterday, which I appreciated very much (although I feel a bit guilty).
life_on_queen and I watched Stage 1 of the Tour de France on TVzilla at her place (following a meal of asparagus, steak frites, and strawberries with sour cream and brown sugar. I LOVE going over to her mum's for dinner). I like watching the Tour de France, for many reasons:1. Pretty pretty French scenery.
2. Sometimes hysterical commentary from Versus (via OLN).
3. Oh thank God that isn't me riding 200+ km up a mountain today.
4. Tactics, tradition etc. are actually quite fascinating.
5. Mental workout involved in keeping track of which team is wearing which outfits.
6. So many of the team names are such fun to say: Liquigas! Bouygues! Euskadie Euskaltel!
In which spirit, please welcome Team Garmin Chipotle to the 2008 Tour, not only because their name is Team Garmin Chipotle and the world can always use more of that, but because their outfits are argyle. Yes. Argyle.
I have made a start on our annual cheat sheet to help with point 5. Some teams' outfits are helpfully labelled (thank you Cofidis and CSC) but some are really not, and others look entirely different from behind. Also, someone should tell Saunier Duval to lose the yellow and white uniforms, because they really are confusing.
Also, my parents mowed and weeded my lawn and trimmed my hedge yesterday, which I appreciated very much (although I feel a bit guilty).
