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Hey football fans! It's Monday night!

Cinci is winning! Yeah! So growing up in southern Ohio I have put up with more than my share of Bengals fans, but it's actually nice to see them doing well. I actually have two Broncos receivers on my fantasy team, but I've already won my match so I can be objective. :-)

Sorry for the previous negative post but last week really sucked. This week is looking up. My office situation at work is rapidly improving and I'm now gearing up for a science meeting. We *might* even be able to have the car repaired while I'm out of town. Hold your breath.

The past weekend showed a resurgence of summerlike weather and I made it out on the bike for a couple hours. Turns out Navy Pier is only a short ride away, but chock full of pedestrians. I have only biked nearby and along the lakefront, but it's really easy to get around so far. I left the shore a couple miles North of home, but found a bike lane South and had an easy ride home. Well, the potholes beat up my shoulders pretty good (no shocks on my road bike), but my arms/hands were fine - gel-padded gloves are the best money I've ever spent.

The main topics of Monday lunch with the high energy physics crowd are physics politics, US politics, and baseball. Today, Jon Stewert's appearance on Crossfire came up. Not surprisingly, the only people at the table familiar with it were myself another younger fellow and one other guy. Is it a terrible thing that the most unbiased and possibly only source of news that many people my age watch is a show on Comedy Central? Is is disturbing that the older generation seems to be entirely disconnected from this phenomenon. Of course, watching the Daily Show is also cable dependent. But sometimes it worries me that most of news is only presented to the over 40 crowd? Do we really have no medium other than the web? Do we really not have the time or energy to care? What is the media? (ha ha, just watched Matrix 3) But really, if everyone I consider a sensible person completely ignores the mainstream media, what does that mean?

Anyway, next week will be interesting. I have two opinions on the outcome depending on whether your'e playing straight or pot odds.