Fantasy Football Fail
The Bad News
So this year I really dropped the ball in fantasy football and half forgot, half acquired apathy for trades and the waiver wire in our league. As a result, my team regularly had injured players, second string players, or players who were just plain bad. That being said, our league consisted of 16 people, which guaranteed you were going to have at least one player who was lacking.
Even though I had a legitimate reason to have some sub-par players, I really have no excuse for playing 16 out of 16. Joe (my other half) and I actually battled for last place… or as it’s called in The League, “The Sacko.” I am now the ashamed proud holder of the Sacko Award.
Now yesterday I was driving in to work and heard Daniel Powter’s “Had a Bad Day” on the radio and immediately thought of the NFL Fantasy Football commercial that has been around and playing for at least a year or two. I realized that I would never be able to listen to that song the same way again and will forever think of this commercial:
The Better News
At least I didn’t go 0 and 14… My heart goes out to “One Giant Step” in that commercial, poor fellow! And I had a new found drive to do well during the next season.
This year really made me realize that I need to step it up next year, especially if I want to at least beat Joe and give someone else The Sacko Award. As a sober reminder, I made a picture that will assuredly be my desktop background during fantasy football season next year. Go Skins!
The WAAAAGHShington Greenskins have seen better days…. maybe if they just played Blood Bowl instead…
Yo, Shatner – Bring It!
This past weekend the hubby and I went to go see William Shatner at the Cal Poly Performing Arts Center. Once I have another spare moment I will write about the show itself, but today I would like to focus on the newest edition to our household. Once some of our friends learned that we held tickets to go see The Shat, these anonymous persons snuck up to our door the night prior to the show and left us a little present…
Yo, Shatner – Bring It!
Due to security and our inability to smuggle a gnome into the Shatner show, poor Gnomie Jr had to wait in the car while we enjoyed the show. I’m sure his rivalry with Priceline Shatner drove him stir crazy while he was stuck in the car that night, so the next day we had to do something about it! In the true spirit of Travelocity gnome and all of his followers, I give you…
The Wondrous Adventure Day of Gnomie Jr
A Confession
Like many of you, I too started the new year with renewed inspiration and tackled my goals with a vigor that was slightly lacking towards the end of the year. One of those goals that I had been working on, and continue to do so, is writing.
But, but, you haven’t posted anything all year!
Yes yes, I know, and that’s where this confession comes in. Part of my blogging endeavor was initially created to put myself on a writing schedule, to have timelines that I had to stick to, and to keep my fingers from gathering dust. I’m here to tell you that even though I’ve been trolling the internet with little to no presence, I have not given up my New Year’s goal.
I hesitate to say “resolution” because it’s so finite, so easy to fail. A goal is something to aspire to, something that is obtainable, so different than the typical resolutions that we all commit to at the end of December and then let fizzle out as the new year progresses.
To the untrained eye, it seems as though I have failed in my writing goal for the new year. Much to the contrary, I’ve been creating something of a storm on my laptop, living room, and even local coffee shops with the flurries of keystrokes that have been going on! Even though the blog has been quiet, it’s the eye before the storm of literary creation.
If you missed one of the previous posts, To Boldly Go, I am running a comedy LARP next month at DunDraCon up in San Ramon, California. The story creation and character writing has been going swimmingly. So swimmingly, in fact, that I’m slightly disappointed to have only slotted 16 characters in the game! Though unlike some beloved Mutant Sagas that have been going on for years, I will try my darndest to keep within the limits of character creation for this game. Next one? I will in all likelihood add a good number of characters to the game list.
So while my presence on the internet may be slightly less active, fear not! I am, and will continue to use my creative powers for good. Keep an eye out for less frequent posts, writing updates, and photo shenanigans…
What I Think I Do
In a recent email thread friends of mine were discussing what they do for a living and inviting others to do the same. It got me thinking of that “What My Friends Think I Do” meme that was floating around the internet a while back and how that applies to anyone giving a resume-esque response to job title questions. Myself? I’m a specialist at a bank. And nowadays when people hear the word “bank” they cringe and give me a venomous look as if I had just been eying their wallet.
But that’s not how everyone views bankers, at least I would like to think so. So I’ve put together a written example of that same meme that used to plaster our facebook walls…
The Industrious Inquisitor 