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<\/a><\/p>\nMy flight this morning was at 5:45 am. This always seems like a good idea until the alarm goes off at 2:30 so I can shower and drive to the park n ride to get through security and to the gate an hour or so before boarding. I barely slept last night worried about missing the alarm. How many times have I slept through an alarm in my life? Less than five I\u2019m confident in saying. And yet… perpetual worry as it only takes one to muck up the house of cards that is my life and it\u2019s schedule.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m still feeling sick and tired but I\u2019m tired of being sick and sick of being tired.<\/p>\n
To Lincoln I fly… well, to Omaha I fly and then by car to Lincoln.<\/p>\n
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A recurrent thought throughout today: \u201cMan, I wish I felt better.\u201d \u00a0It\u2019s actually been a recurrent thought this past ten days or so but today I am *so close* to feeling *almost* within striking distance of *not terrible.* \u00a0 Just a smidge more, the difference in a hotel bath\u2019s water spigot between lukewarm and scalding hot, that micromeasurement difference is all that I need. \u00a0Sigh.<\/p>\n As I ambled through the Omaha Airport Terminal, I passed this kiosk and flashed as I often do on such opportunities to that cruise ship comedian\u2019s joke about how in China, \u201cChinese food\u201d is just called \u201cfood.\u201d \u00a0I\u2019ve asked Mom probably 72 times if I\u2019ve asked her once and still I can\u2019t remember the guy\u2019s name. \u00a0I want to say… Tom? \u00a0Tom Deliccio? \u00a0That can\u2019t be right… anyway, in reference to the below, shouldn\u2019t the sigb just say \u201cSteaks?\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s about an hour drive out to Lincoln. \u00a0The thing I noticed is they sure do love their cornhusker football out here. \u00a0I knew that but I didn\u2019t *know* that, ya know? \u00a0It was only in seeing it in person that I really felt I grok\u2019d it, to use a Robert A. Heinlein phrasing.<\/p>\n Anyhoo, the Lincoln Marathon packet pickup was at the Marriott Cornhusker. \u00a0It was a fairly standard bib and merch and expo affair…<\/p>\n However I got suckered into buying a tee shirt. \u00a0I have bags of things earmarked for eventual goodwill runs but still I couldn\u2019t resist this one…<\/p>\n I\u2019ve been a little down on the USA thanks to a government seemingly spearheaded by John Kennedy Toole\u2019s Confederacy of Dunces. \u00a0But who can resist the 16th President rocking a sweatband and intoning, \u201cone score and 6.2 miles ago…?\u201d<\/p>\n I feel like I wasted $10… especially when the posters were free on my way out…<\/p>\n I was feeling guilty I wasn\u2019t sightseeing much with my time in Nebraska. \u00a0I just wish I felt better. \u00a0(See! \u00a0I told you it was a recurrent thought! \u00a0Like Honest Abe I am, I am…).<\/p>\n I thought I owed it to the town to at least see what I was missing. \u00a0Thus, a check of roadsideamerica.com yielded a few choice possibilities. \u00a0I skipped the purportedly inordinately large chicken that a reviewer said was just large and not inordinately so… but I was tempted by the gasoline motor powered roller skates on display at the National Museum\u00a0of Rollerskating…<\/p>\n I even figured maybe I\u2019d go check it out… until I checked the visiting hours.<\/p>\n I guess weekends is skate time so, ya know, they\u2019re only open weekdays 9 to 5. \u00a0Weekdays 9 to 5?! \u00a0How many roller skater aficionados do they get during the week? \u00a0How many skateheads feign illness to call in sick to work so they can play hookey and then\u00a0do the hokey pokey at the roller rink archives? \u00a0This place alone is responsible\u00a0for demonstratable dips in productivity in the Lincoln area…<\/p>\n Outraged and yet invigorated to find something worthy of visiting, I decided this was my play:<\/p>\n I don\u2019t know… sometimes I just get the feeling like I\u2019m being watched… ya know?<\/p>\n<\/a>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n