A bit of charity

I found out my work is sponsoring the 2015 American Diabetes Assn Tour de Cure, and decided to combine my love of riding with a bit of charity, and signed up for the June 7th ride in this area (Northern Virginia).  I need to find the course, but it'll be a 108-mile ride along (major?) roads.

I'm looking forward to it.

Anyway, the great news is that my company will be matching donations if I meet the $500 minimum (if I meet it, all donations will be matched, not just those over $500), so if you'd like to help the American Diabetes Association's mission of community-based education and research funding, please go to my page and donate generously.

As someone who feels that large corporations are generally not doing their part to support other people, I would love to make them pay.  And, of course, all donations are tax deductible.

Also, I should point out that, as Americans' waist lines are expanding (note that no state in that picture is under 20% of self-reported obesity.  Not just being overweight, but actually obese), diabetes is likely to become a major, major problem in the not-too-distant future.  So anything we can do about it now will be a great help.

Thank you for your support.

Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.

All aboard

One of the things I found kind of funny about a bunch of the Disney Land rides was that they gave "boarding pass"es to people getting on them.  I don't know if it's changed since the last time I was there, but they certainly didn't have these at Disney World.  Maybe it's just me, but they feel kind of... goofy.

Oh, and if you look closely, you'll see that this one is for the Dumbo ride.  Worst line we had the entire day (a bit over 45 minutes), for a one- or two-minute ride.  Not one of our better decisions (especially as they had a virtually identical ride in the space area).  Still a good day; just not one of the high points.