Sorry I haven't been blogging lately. Here's what's been going on over the past week that wasn't really worthy of dedicated posts.

• I didn't play disc golf for a full month because of the incredible heat we've had in Charlotte all of August. On Thursday I played in my first tournament in 6 weeks, and I took 4th place, my highest finish yet. I won't bore you every time I win plastic (the prizes are new discs), but I will post if I ever come in first.
• Last week we finally got part of our house repairs taken care of. The first floor ceiling was finally patched and I'm not satisfied with the popcorn finishing they did. We're still trying to get the master bathroom floor fixed but nobody is willing to take the job because the "first response" people who came in to dry everything up did more damage to the sub floor than necessary. It's all a freakin' mess that I wish would just go away already.
• I'm now back to working 6 1/2 days per week until December. Joy. Even better is the fact that my non-NFL job (which I don't identify) stopped paying overtime, which really sucks after working what sometimes ends up being a 14 hour shift.
• Ending on a positive note, I am the guru of fantasy sports. I am in the championships in both of my fantasy baseball leagues, which is a huge achievement in one league since I started without a winning week for the first 5 weeks of the season but came back to end up with the 2nd best regular season record. And now it's football season too. In the three leagues I'm in, I'm a combined 6 wins and zero losses (2-0 in each league) and I'm in first place in 2 of my leagues. Booya!
  

Labels: disc_golf, fantasy_baseball, fantasy_football, home, work

The NFL season kicked off last night and the Panthers' first home game is this Sunday. After a few years working as the backup, this will be my first full season on the sidelines as an NFL Instant Replay Official. (No, I'm not a referee.) It's great to be on the field for every Panthers home game (except when it's cold or raining) but the hardest part of my job is remaining neutral and not cheering for the Panthers.

The start of the NFL season also marks the beginning of Fantasy Football season. Every year I join at least two reoccurring leagues. One is a league of alumni from my old college television station, PSTV. But the big money is in a highly-competitive league amongst my old fraternity brothers. Good smack talk in there. This is the fifth year for our league but our first as a keeper league, so of course now that this is a keeper league, I ended up with the 14th pick in the draft (out of 14). After going to the championship game each of the previous three years I suffered an abysmal 2-11-0 self-destruction last season. Can only go up from there.

P.S. By the way, there's also that other football stuff on Saturdays too. ;-)

Labels: fantasy_football, football

I won my Fantasy Football league. I had a 7-7 record for the "regular season" but pulled off back-to-back-to-back upsets to take the championship. Booya!

Labels: fantasy_football