P.B. cookies and todays commute

Wahoo! I got a package at the shop! And guess what.....it was filled with P.B. cookies. ROCK ON! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you, to my Aunt and Uncle from the North-Land for sending down the sugary goodness. About 3 cookies didn't survive the shipment, but oh well, the others went down very easy. You are more than welcome to send more....hint, hint, hint :-) And as far as my race schedule and sponsors.....keep posted to the site.

Now for the rest of you. Todays commute was interesting to say the least. It was very warm, like 80 degrees, which is not normal for late Oct in Iowa. The weather guy was saying a cold front was to move through later in the day. Translation....THUNDER STORMS! Sure enough they did. I was like 1/4 mile from home and the gates of hell were unleashed upon me tonight. It started pouring, and the wind was blowing atleast 30 mph. I was soaked in like 1 nanosecond. For some reason I though that if I ride faster I might stay drier......Right. I might of well have jumped into the Cedar River. Thank God it was warm out, cause I would have froze if it would have been a seasonal 45 degrees like it's supposed to be in late Oct.

Now a list of the odd things I saw on the commute into work.
1. A flattened squirrel with the walnut still in mouth.

2. A green chile pepper.....ya know, the ones that come in the Papa Johns Pizza box.

3. A flattened dog. I think this is the little yippy white dog that charges at me everytime I ride by. Thing is, it didn't charge today. It's hard to tell though, cause the splat in the road look'd a bit like the dog, but yet there was leaves stuck to it so it was hard to 100% identify. Well see here in the near future.

4. A little old lady on a motorized cart. I think it was the clone to the evil one in Dumb and Dumber, who stole Lloyds box of goodies and big ten-gallon cowboy hat.

5. A 20-something guy blowing his leaves out of his yard with one of those electric blowers, and next door to him was a 70-something lady raking here leaves with a rake....by hand....like it's supposed to be. ROCK ON LADY!!!!

What should I dress up as for Halloween? Hmmmmmm. How about that Squirrel guy from Des Moines. He has his own original style. He came to the mountain bike time trail about a month ago on a Raleigh mnt bike pulling a B-O-B trailer, and the B-O-B trailer pulling his single speed. All this while dressed in an orange prison issue jump suit. Cool! Actually, I am not going to dress up cause I am a party-pooper. Yes, I just said "pooper" in my blog.

Also checkout FSA's website. They have some sweet stuff for 2005. Plus they finally updated their site.

Well that is it. I get to work the shop all day tomorrow. Wahoo! More money.

Out.