So, you may remember back in September, I decided to not watch TV on Sundays. I joked about how as a “reward”, God should let me win my fantasy football league.
Now, with the season nearly over, I thought I would report. I did not watch TV football on Sundays, though I did watch parts of maybe 3-4 Sunday night games on the Internet. I also watched the last 5 minutes or so of the Browns Bills game a few weeks ago, justified by the fact that I “got to” watch it because I went to 5 hours of church that day
And yes, I did win my fantasy football championship (the Super Bowl was last Sunday in Week 16). I agonized going in as to who to start, at RB particularly. My 2 starters for most of the season had been Joseph Addai and Brandon Jacobs (since Travis Henry started sucking and Larry Johnson was ineffective / injured). Jacobs hadn’t done that great the past few weeks and Fred Taylor had gone nuts, so I decided to start Taylor against Oakland (worst rushing defense in the NFL). With the Colts having clinched their seed, I was worried how much Addai would play so I decided to start Jacobs over Addai.
Then I watched Addai score a 1st quarter touchdown. And Aaron Stecker (also on my bench) score 2 early touchdowns (taking them away from my quarterback Drew Brees who also plays for Stecker’s Saints). Oh and Kevin Curtis (WR on my bench) recovered a fumble in the endzone for 6 points.
In the end though, it didn’t really matter. Jacobs came back with 143 yards and 2 TDs and Taylor had 111 and a score, but I could have started anyone and still won as my opponent came through with the worst performance of any time of the entire year. I won 100.53 to 41.38 for my 2nd Super Bowl win in 3 years.
I know nobody cares but hey, since this is my journal, I’m sure my great-grandchildren who are playing some sort of bionic fantasy football through their earpiece brain implants will want to know how life was back in the DAY.
Now before you laugh, let me point out that my level of handiness is very low. So even minor achievements are something to be celebrated in the Miller household.
Before leaving for our Christmas trip, I installed a new headlight on our van. It was somewhat hard to do. Even though I had instructions from our owner’s manual, the lights themselves were just really hard to get to. I hesitated pulling very hard on them because I wasn’t sure I had the right part and didn’t want to break anything.
Only to find that I had pulled out the right one. Errr the wrong one. Errr the one on the right, which was the wrong one (i.e. the one that was still working).
In any case I got it all taken care of finally and didn’t even have to yell at anyone. Carolyn will have to report whether or not “the tongue flick” came into play.
Then last night I braved the demon bugs of our basement and flipped a breaker switch. A week or two ago some of our electrical outlets in the kitchen and the outside light stopped working. We wondered if maybe it was a breaker but neither of us really knew what we were doing. So anyways we went down there to investigate last night, and as usually is the case with things like this, it was laughably easy. The breakers were actually already labeled and the one marked “Kitchen – GFCI” looked different than all the others.
I was actually wondering if we needed to replace it or something, because when I tried to move it to “ON” it wouldn’t go. But Carolyn just turned it off and then back on, at which point it worked and then our lights and outlets started working.
So, as Carolyn pointed out over here, VeggieTales sure has some catchy songs.
We had a little trip to Virginia for Christmas, and VeggieTales were definitely on the menu of our portable DVD player. Here’s one song that I really like.
It’s called “The SUV song”. Here’s a quote from the lyrics
Both: Oh you and me in our sport utility vehicles crusin to 7-11 for a bag of frito lays. Oh you and me in our sport Utility Vehicles we’ll slam into 4 wheel and pick up a dozen eggs and if there ever was a snow Girl- A really really deep snow Larry: And if everyone was stuck but us Girl- We’d be the ones not stuck Larry: then we could be the heroes Girl- We could be the heroes Both- we could be the herooooooos Girl- We would push them and pull them Larry: push them and pull them Both- Push them and pull them right out of the snow
Good times….good times…
One of the things that I like about VeggieTales is all the non-kid related humor. Like the kids like this song for its catchiness and such but they have no idea about the whole SUV-mocking part. I think this is a mark of really good shows. I remember watching Tiny Toon adventures as a teenager and thinking about how “clever” I was because I picked up on all these “hidden” jokes that my younger brothers didn’t. Looking back, I bet there were even more jokes that *I* didn’t get.
