Not much, really

This week I was 4 for 4 on rides to work and back. I enjoy my new route, but there are a few things that are a little frustrating.

1. There are more red lights on the route. This requires a lot more rider kharma on my part, if I hit a few red lights early in the ride, I get a little frustrated and then get mad at later lights. If you miss a later light, more than likely I'll get stuck at subsequent lights. There is one series of lights just before the King Street Metro Station in Alexandria - - if I time things wrong I will hit three red lights in a row, then miss a couple more on Eisenhower Street. This happened on Tuesday, I got caught behind a bunch of cars at the King Street tunnel, missed the first light, missed the second light, hit the third green light (where I normally end up running a red light anyway) and then got stuck at three red lights in a row on Ike Street.

2. There is a Dunkin Donuts on the new route. This is the second bakery or bakery like store on my route. The first is a mystery bakery that I think makes donuts for grocery stores (generic donuts?), it is in an industrial area, there is no store, but I can certainly smell donuts and other good smelling stuff baking. I ride by that and think how good a donut would taste, then have to ride by the Dunkin Donuts (on Ead Street, just past 18th Street), I then have to think about how good a donut would be, with a cup of Dunkin Dark coffee.

One of these days I will take a few extra minutes to go find the mystery bakery and then maybe stop off for a quick cup of coffee at the Dunkin Donuts.

Husker update.

The Huskers dominated one of our annoying Big 12 North foes, kansas state. k-state used to be a doormat back in the Big 8 days, then they hired Bill Snyder. Somewhere along the way, Bill Snyder made a deal with the devil (nobody can attract quality athletes to the middle of nowhere, Manhattan, Kansas and put together a winning team without a little non-divine assistance) and started making k-state pretty good, and they occasionally beat the Huskers. This game was especially refreshing, Nebraska returned to the powerful ground game that made the Huskers great in the 90's, and we have found a quarterback that can run the offense. Taylor Martinez reminds me a lot of other Husker Legends - - Eric Crouch and Tommie Frazier, not only is he lightning quick and fast, he has a very accurate arm.

I am not quite sure we are a top 10 team, I'll hold of until we put texas in it's place and beat oklahoma state. After than, I am pretty sure we'll have another special team. Nebraska's defense is lightning quick and deep, our offensive line is back to the glory days and we have a QB. Should be interesting . . .

Fantasy Football Woes

Once again, I can't pick a group of 5 wide receivers, I can handle a QB that gets injured, or has a few bad games, but 5 gaping holes in my roster from divas that can't catch a ball (Michael Crabtree) or stay with a team (Randy Moss) or just don't show up (Sims-Walker?), that is tough to swallow. Luckily, I passed my niece (sorry Sid) and one of my brothers-in-law had a rough week, so, we'll see. For the record, I am not in last place.