Treasure hunt, fantasy, Another reason, solo

I was exhausted this morning.  I didn’t get home from my fantasy football draft until after 11 and then by the time I tended to the animals and took a shower I didn’t actually fall asleep until early this morning.  So needless to say I wasn’t in a bright and fuzzy mood this morning when I crawled out of bed.  As I stumble out to the kitchen I flipped on the light, opened the utility room door and am greeted to vomit on the tile and on the rug we have by the door, hooray!

Well just like a treasure map I knew these 2 piles of vomit were only the beginning of my adventure.  I scan the kitchen, number 3! Right outside the kitchen was stain number 4, by the guest bathroom was stain number 5!  Wow how exciting!  Just when I thought it couldn’t get any better I spot pile number 6 behind the couch and then the grand finale was pile number 7 which was literally 8 inches from the creator of this wonderful mess, Buttons.  She looked up at me and once she saw the rage in my face and the ominous tone that I uttered her name she bolted from the room.  The fleeing cat was an instaneous sign for Nicki and our neighbor’s dog to pounce which I welcomed.  They chased the cat under some furniture.  I encouraged them to eat the cat but I knew I would not be so lucky.

So I spent the first 15 minutes of my morning going from spot to spot of glorious cat vomit cleaning it up.  As I did it I annoyingly asked the cat why she feels the need to walk around the house and voimt.  Why could she not be intelligent enough to vomit on the tile where it would be easily addressed.  For some reason even though I have told the cat this countless times over the years she never takes it to heart which makes me more angry.  Stupid cat.

Well anyway, last night was my fantasy football draft.  Our league is run by a friend of ours.  The rest of the team owners are basically co-workers or friends of his so I am kind of an outsider looking in.  Last year I took considerable ribbing on my first round pick, Julius Jones.  I had a feeling that he was going to have a break out year so I jumped up and grabbed him.  Well he turned out to be hurt for most of the year and didn’t do shit for me.

This year I was much more conventional with my picks.  My number one was Edgerrin James.  I think I have a pretty well rounded team but as always, it’s all about injuries, your team needs to stay healthy.  I didn’t even look at the bye weeks for my players which is dumb but I was lucky that there shouldn’t be any major conflicts.  Here is my complete roster, I am heavy on running backs but I am hoping to use them as trade bait if needed later. I made a couple sentimental picks later, grabbing the Eagles defense and my last pick was Ryan Moats.  I am suspect of Westbrook’s foot injury and am banking on him going down sooner rather than later which would move Moats into the starter role. My team name is “Green Machine”.  The name works on multiple levels.  The Green Machine was my favorite riding toy in my childhood, it is a nick name associated with the Eagles and it could be interpreted as my enviromental position as well.

Palmer, Carson
Droughns, Reuben
James, Edgerrin
Johnson, Andre
Wayne, Reggie
Crumpler, Alge
Graham, Shayne
Eagles, DST
Favre, Brett
Barber, Marion
Green, Ahman
Lewis, Jamal
Moats, Ryan
Mason, Derrick
Moulds, Eric

I forgot I wanted to mention another reason to get a Tivo, (if you are a techno geek) You can pull any show that is sitting on your Tivo onto your pc and with the help of a little 3rd party utility convert it into a regular mpeg that you can watch on your pc, your laptop or even your smart phone.  Of course this assumes you have your Tivo connected to your home lan.  I just ripped a half hour show on Wednesday and it worked like a charm.

Ali left for PA yesterday.  In addition our neighbors are gone for a couple days so it is me and 2 dogs right now.  Our neighbor’s dog and Nicki get along well.  Nicki gets very excited to see her and wants to do nothing but play with her.  Unfortunately Zoe gets tired of the horseplay sooner than Nicki does.  Also when Zoe is over it makes me feel like a celebrity.  The reason is because she does nothing but follow me around and stare.  Of course she isn’t staring because she admires me, she stares because she is constantly waiting for me to throw her some edible object.  The dog is always looking for a treat, it’s funny. 

I don’t have any wild parties planned for my bachelor weekend.  I want to knock out the chores I have on my mental list first and then just enjoy myself.  I may get drunk and play WoW, watch some movies I downloaded that Ali would not want to watch with me, maybe fly my planes if the water recedes and whatever else comes to mind.  I really don’t mind being by myself, at least for a few days.