A group of our climbing friends got together with us last night to celebrate Jen’s birthday (and her survival of her first semester of graduate school) at the Sharp Edge. A good time was had by all. If there’s anything I miss from our pre-Seb days, it’s the frequency of getting together with folks to raise a pint, especially when it’s a cask-conditioned Rogue Mocha Porter.

Also, a bit of World Rally news — Francios Duval has signed with Citroen to drive the second works car behind Sebastien Loeb. With Markko Martin almost certainly going to Peugeot, it looks as if Ford will be hunting high and low for drivers for the upcoming season. The most interesting bit of all this is that both Martin and Duval could only sign one year deals with the PSA sister squads, since neither will be in the championship beyond 2005.

The remaining open seats for 2005 include the second Subaru (though at this point, Mikko Hirvonen should have little competition), both seats at Ford, the second seat at Mitsubishi (behind Gilles Panizzi, though it will probably be one of the team’s youngsters who gets it), and the second seat at Skoda.

Posted on 17 November 2004