On these sucky days when I’ve been working my ass off, exausted, and got a headache, there’s one sure cure.

Wait until the office empties out and blast The Ghost of Tom Joad.

One of my latest adventures was going down Blacksburg to watch a ACC Cycling Meet.  My husband races for University of Maryland and it was his next to last race as a Terp. It was a two day race hosted by Virginia Tech.We packed up Q and all her stuff and put the bike in the back of the Ford Escape.  It turns out it was a good thing that we don’t yet have a bike rack for the Escape and that we have Virginia plates.  o­n the way to the race o­n Sunday, the local police had a field day.  Basically if you had a bike o­n your car and out of state plates, you got a $150+ speeding ticket.  Let’s just say there were a lot of pissed off guys in Spandex that day.