Normally, my Monday posting is a review of the weekend’s racing. Well, the weather threw a monkey wrench into things so the race review will have to wait until tomorrow.

As for the weather review, the story is pretty impressive. For the past few weeks we’ve had incredible spring weather. Warm temperatures, sunny days and the winter gravel had finally blow away revealing clean motorcycling roads. Then, starting last Thursday night, the snow flakes started falling again up in the mountains of Colorado. As the last of the frozen stuff fell this morning the measuring stick shows three foot of snow over the past four days.

This wasn’t the light fluffy stuff that usual graces the high altitudes but was a wet, heavy snow that bent trees and weighted down power lines. The all important electrons quit flowing to my house four times in five days. Ah, the joys of rural mountain living! The final tally was one dead APC UPS, three dead hard drives and two crashed servers. I spent the entire weekend installing drives from my spares pool, re-installing Solaris and restoring backup tapes. As of 4am Monday morning all the servers are back up, though one of them is still propped up with iffy parts and a computer geek’s prayer. I’ll finish that one up Tuesday night after I’m caught up on sleep.

Anyway, the power of the blog has returned. I’ll get the usual weekend race review posted tomorrow. Thanks for your patience with dorje.com’s ups and downs.

[image from my photo collection.]