Flag Day 50-miler

Just in from a 50 mile bike ride in some serious heat -- the heat index is 97. The Hotter'N Hell 100 mile bike race is just 2 months away, and we got a pretty good dose of what that'll be like.

I'm about to fire up the grill and watch some college baseball before heading down to the office later tonight -- it's a full week this week. I'm meeting with our local fire department in the morning to discuss the legislation I sponsored on fire safe cigarettes, then I'm heading up to Little Rock before coming back tomorrow evening to install the incoming officers of the Literacy Council. The legislative JPR committee is meeting at Old Washington on Tuesday and Wednesday, and I'm speaking at a National Train Symposium in Little Rock on Wednesday before flying out to Africa on Thursday.