Henry’s Blog

With less than 24 hours to go before the start of the Tour de France in Strasbourg comes the news that a number of the top contenders have been implicated in Operation Puerto, the Spanish investigation into illegal use of performance enhancing drugs and other techniques. As many of 58 riders may be involved at this point and 9 have been kicked out of the Tour. Among them are Jan Ullrich and Ivan Basso, the two favorites, and Francisco Mancebo (last year’s 4th place finisher). I’m shocked and saddened, especially at the implicated involvement of my perennial underdog favorite, Ullrich.

I’m still excited for this years Tour and what’s now a wide open field of contenders. I’ll be following along on OLN. Saturday’s prologue promises excitement with the return of David Miller and the American time trial specialist David Zabriskie. I’ll be on the edge of the couch cheering them on!

For more reading, news stories from Phil Liggett, Velo News, ProCycling, and the San Francisco Cronicle.

For as long as I can remember I’ve been a fan of trains. Growing on just a few feet from the main line of the Long Island Railroad and setting up Lionel trains around the Christmas tree got me started. Then small HO and N scale layouts, and lots of arm chair model railroading. Finally I’ve got the opportunity to work on a big layout, I’ve joined the Silicon Valley Lines in San Jose: A 23′ x 72′ two layer layout.

For the past couple of weeks I’ve helped out with wiring up switches and this Friday is operations night, where we get to run the trains all around the layout

Being from Long Island my first purchase for the club in the Atlas Diesel locomotive with the old Long Island color scheme:

If you’re a Bay Area model railroading fan, come and join us on Friday!

It’s been a while since my last blog posting. The last few months we’ve been keeping busy planning our wedding. Now we’re back from our Honeymoon in Hawaii and the photos are starting to coming in. First up, the official wedding photos and the same photos in black & white. Lots more photos from Sara, Doug, Branwyn, and Stephen.

Henry’s photos from Getting Ready and The Big Day.

Ayaz has posted a wonderful collection of photos from the rehersal, wedding, and reception at his website. You will need to login as HenrySara with password eharmony

More photos to come!

PS: Reports of my drowning in Hawaii are (thankfully) not true. My co-worker Dave reported hearing the news while also in Hawaii this past weekend.