Hang In There

There's nothing like 96 hours of disaster relief coverage to make your own problems seem like minor inconveniences. I saw a guy on TV the other day that was desperately trying to find his wife and three grandchildren, and suddenly having to sleep on my parents' couch didn't seem so bad.

Slightly less depressing (okay, a lot less depressing) then all the heartbreaking news stories was the commercial I saw for the Toy Story 10th Anniversary Edition. How could that movie have come out ten years ago?! How did that happen?! I feel old now.

Well, on the bright side, football season starts on Thursday. Last year, Nick and Jose were part of a fantasy football league with some guys from Best Buy. I'd been hearing more and more about fantasy leauges over the past few years, but I never really understood what they were. It sounded like something that involved twenty-sided die.

As the weeks went on, it started to make a bit more sense, even though I still don't really understand how the points work. They seemed to be having fun, though, and I wanted to try it for myself. So this year I'm giving it a shot. We had our live draft two weeks ago. If you're unfamiliar with the whole process, basically you take turns picking who you want on your team from a list of available players. Kind of like how we used to pick teams for kickball in fourth grade. Everyone picks two quarterbacks, three wide recievers, two running backs, two tight ends, two kickers, two guys that can be either wide recievers or running backs, and two teams' defenses. It's only a six team leaugue, so no one really got saddled with bottom of the barrel type guys, but I was still in the middle of packing up the apartment when we had the draft, so some of my choices were a bit hurried. So ever since then I've been adding and dropping players like crazy, trying to fill out my roster with the best players available. So long, Jim Kleinsasser. Hello, Jeb Putzier.

In the battle of players with silly names, I dumped Plaxico Burress in favor of Peerless Price, while Price was still in limbo. I figured he'd have to land somewhere before the season started, and I was a little weary of Plexiglass only because he'll be catching throws from Eli Manning. Who knows, maybe Eli will do better this year, but it sure looks like he's the Billy Carter of the Manning family. Jose added Burress to his roster a few days later, and with my luck, the guy's going to have a career season.

Anyway, I named my team the Dingleberries. Why Dingleberries? Well, I don't expect to be at the top of the standings every week, but hopefully I'll be able to hang on long enough to get into the playoffs. I wanted to use a customized logo, but Yahoo only lets you use one of their generic football helmets, or some kind of creepy winking Backstreet Boy. That stinks, because I wanted to draw up a liitle graphic of a berry in a football helmet, or at least put up the team's motto:



So there you go. I'll keep you updated on how my team is doing each week. And as long as he's doing worse than me, I'll keep you updated on Jose's team, too. We're going head-to-head week 4.

Now...about the Disgusting Girl blog. From what I saw on this site, DG found out about the blog and Madman, the guy who wrote it, was fired. How did she find out, you ask? Madman had his blog set up to send him an email every time some one leaves a comment. I have mine set up the same way, but he had it go his work email rather than a private one. So when he went on vacation a few weeks ago, he had his auto-reply message on, and everyone (including me) that commented on his blog during that time got an auto-reply email with his name, the name of the company he worked for, the address and the phone number. I'm sure he wasn't thinking about his blog when he set up the auto-reply, but it was a HUGE mistake on his part to have an his comments go to his work email. So basically, I'm guessing someone got an auto-reply and decided to be a dick and called the company.

Every trace of Madman is gone, even his other blog that was just a list of other people's blogs. According to Cassy, someone called the number from the email and was informed that he was terminated. Someone else said that he posted a comment on her blog saying he was almost fired and that she was to remove the comment as soon as she read it. I hope he didn't really get fired over this. But either way, it doesn't look like he'll be writing about DG anymore. So many questions were left unanswered. Will DG and Tiny get married? What's going to happen with her lawsuit? And what about poor little Pope? I can understand that DG is upset, and she has every right to be. But she can't just leave us all hanging, we were there for her whole pregnancy, for crying out loud! And possibly even the conception. She could at least start her own blog and pick up where Madman left off.

Well, I think we all learned a thing or two from this. I just hope Ted, the annoying guy I work with, never finds my site. You know, Ted?