Prepping

After work we had a meeting for one of our races in December.  I was worried that the dogs had been left alone for too long.  I left the house about 9:30 and we didn’t get back home until after 6:30. Luckily there were no accidents waiting for us.

I spent the majority of what was left of the night getting the house ready for the fantasy football draft party tonight. I made a number of improvements from last year even though last year’s draft was generally viewed as the best ever.

I drug furniture around so the normal great room furniture was now pushed against the perimeter. This gave me additional floor space to pull the dining room table in.  Last year I only had the smaller fold up table in the room.  As a result a lot of people wound up having to juggle papers in their lap.  The additional big table will give owners a better surface to work off of.

The food spread last year was extensive, the problem was I had to try to prepare it all. This year I have a couple things to throw in the oven but I plan to just order 8 pizzas and have that be the main source of nourishment.

I am also upgrading the tech at this year’s draft.  Last year I had a live windows media feed stream that allowed remote owners to see and hear what was going on.  The remote owners used AIM to communicate with us.  I had their conversations displaying on the 73 inch tv.

This year I will still have the video stream and AIM available but we are hoping to use a Skype group video call primarily.  If it works out it could be very cool.  We will have one owner participating in the draft from the other side of the world, Barcelona to be exact.

My ass will be dragging tomorrow for sure.