For a snowstorm that was supposed to last for 36 hours, most of the little snowfall I had, occurred between 7:00 and 9:00 last night. Barely had to shovel and probably could have gotten away without having to pick that new shovel up at all. However, the plowing yesterday morning left a lot to be desired. Even the turnpike didn't have its normal pristine surface. Let's hope this isn't a sign of things to come this winter.

Very strange. I noticed the weather folks in town were not going out on a limb as far as snow totals go. I mean what can you do with a forecast that calls for between 1 and 6 inches of accumulation. Can you narrow that down a bit. Knock on wood though. That's two snow events that called for major accumulation and I hardly participated in either one.

Meal of Links

Sometimes you have 57 channels and something IS on. I stumbled upon "End Of The Century", a doc about the Ramones this a.m. and it was well worth the time.

Let the conspiracy theorists take hold. Rothschild Investment Bank makes record profits. I guess they do run the world.

Pick up your free Dr. Pepper. Starts at Midnight tonight. Thanks, Axl.

Where in the world can you smoke Hippy Lettuce legally? Pack the Reynolds Wrap.

Exercise Yard

I was in attendance at the Cleveland State-Kansas State game this evening. First visitor to the Bart from a big conference since Cal came here several years ago (excluding OSU at the Q last year). And 800 more people showed up this week than last for a crowd of 2800. And they all seemed to be in our row, as it was one of the few times my brother and I lost our coat chair. That's a sign of the times when that happens. All of a sudden I'm looking forward to "friends and family" games later in December to get my personal space back.

As for the game, well, CSU has some things they need to work on. Especially coming out of the gate and shooting well. Again, a dismal first-half effort had the Vikings down by 12 at the half. CSU shot 22% from the field to start. That's becoming a broken record in the first three games. They were also outrebounded, although they had 14 on the offensive end and many of those I apparently chose not to remember, because I thought the number was much lower.















Two side notes. K-State's coach, Frank Martin, I think might have the best stare I've seen in a long time. Besides, no question, he's psychotic. I had to yell at him, "Hey, Coach Bates, Relax.". Haven't seen a coach rip his players like that since Bruce Pearl was at Milwaukee. Although Coach Huggins is always good for that, too. Martin was an assistant under Huggins, so he learned from the best.

And right when it appeared CSU was making a run in the second half, the officials got involved and called an intentional foul on J'Nathan Bullock. strange call in that the K-State player clearly retaliated and escaped unscathed. thought for sure the double foul was coming. So, K-State turned a three point lead into an eight-point lead with the subsequent foul shots and three on the next possession. Game over, man, game over!

Maybe they need to get back to the Horizon League, because the Vikings are currently leaking oil. Bad starts, decent second halfs, but not much out of the star players, Bullock and Cedric Jackson. Jackson shot 1-for-12 tonight. Ugh.

A disappointing loss drops CSU to 1-2. The final was K-State 69, CSU 59.

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