Two for the price of one

Two days, baby. Two days and the ADVENTURE begins. And I'm finally packing, which I think is a good thing. You know. Because I keep having these fleeting moments of panic, images filled with me arriving at the AIDS ride sans cycling shoes, and suddenly I'm having to go the complete 585 wearing my Tevas. Or worse, arriving at camp at night after that first long day, crawling into my sleeping bag and realizing I have no pillow.

I SAID NO PILLOW! DOES THAT NOT FILL YOU WITH HORROR??

So I'm packing.

In other news... those of you that are going to miss me desperately, fear not: I will be blogging this event for both FresnoBee.com and Modbee.com. I plan on posting daily-- barring any major failures in technology/electronic communication. Whoo hoo! So you can keep up with this great adventure firsthand, getting pictures and commentary from the inside. Also I plan on talking about my arse much less, so you'll have that going for you, too.

Same great post, two great places to find it.

As a side note, I'd like to acknowledge the amazing assistance of Bryan Zera, who made the technology-end of things work for me. Yes, I work on computers. Yes, they still scare me. But just the part with the cords. Thank you, Bryan, for all your help.