July 2005 Archives

We have a fantasy football league that I am the commissioner of and it is set up now with 10 team managers and Yahoos Fantasy Football Plus League format. This league has highly customized settings. We also have a weekly payout bonus and a championship payout.

Most of the people in the league have played in it in years past with one exception and I played with him in another fantasy football league last year.

Like I said this league has highly customized settings that insure that you cannot have somebody just sit still with the team that they drafted and win! You have to actually be active and manage your team.

The superstars play a big part in the league but if you do not do your research every week and get some lesser stars and fill in players you will not win! With the bye weeks and a limited bench no one can stock up and expect not to make any moves and win!

Her are some of the settings:
Roster Positions: QB, QB, WR, WR, RB, RB, TE, W/T, W/R, K, K, D, D, D, DB, DB, DB, DL, DL, DL, BN, BN, BN, BN
Stat Categories: Completions (1)
Passing Yards (50 yards per point)
Passing Touchdowns (6)
Interceptions (-2)
Rushing Yards (20 yards per point)
Rushing Touchdowns (6)
Reception Yards (20 yards per point)
Reception Touchdowns (6)
Return Yards (20 yards per point)
Return Touchdowns (6)
2-Point Conversions (2)
Fumbles Lost (-2)
Offensive Fumble Return TD (6)
Field Goals 0-19 Yards (3)
Field Goals 20-29 Yards (3)
Field Goals 30-39 Yards (3)
Field Goals 40-49 Yards (4)
Field Goals 50+ Yards (5)
Point After Attempt Made (1)
Tackle Solo (1)
Tackle Assist (.5)
Sack (3)
Interception (2)
Fumble Force (2)
Fumble Recovery (2)
Touchdown (6)
Safety (2)
Pass Defended (1)
Block Kick (2)
Fractional Points: Yes
Negative Points: Yes

Good news on the new trees that I planted a few weeks ago. The trees are actually growing new leaves and limbs I noticed yesterday. I was more than a little concerned since the trees were dropped off before I was ready to plant them. I planted to spec as provided by the Sacramento tree foundation and fertilized the soil and watered regularly and kept the weeds out of the 4 foot diameter area I gut 16” deep and the tress appear to be doing ok now.
Today I also filled in the holes where my pine trees were located and seeded those areas as well as the rest of my lawn. I also put down some additional lawn fertilizer.

The trees are oak, one is a Bur Oak and the other is a Valley oak a native of the Sacramento Valley area.

My system I built with the new AMD 64 bit 3200 processor is now my primary system after transferring all of the relevant gigs of data from my 3.2 Intel system. As I said before not only is the CPU fast but the 39160 Adaptec card with the 5 10k rpm SCSI drives this system really cooks! I also have over .5tb’s of capacity on this system, so that will hold for a bit.

Once again after a cold spell with my work outs I am trying to get back into it with the 100 degree weather we have been having this has not been great timing. I normally love the hot temperatures but when you are a bit out of shape and have to get some long runs in that means getting up in time and not going to bed late so you can get up and beat the heat.
I know I can get in shape really quickly which is probably a bad thing since I tend to let it go sometimes knowing I can take the slight pain and discomfort when I do my burn work outs for a few weeks. I never let myself get so far out of shape that I don’t know what it takes to get back on track but man when you are in the middle of only your second 6 mile run back to back days in months it still hurts!!
I have to qualify what I consider being in shape. Having the energy to get up do a minimum of stretching after work and hitting a six mile run at a pace where you are almost skipping is my version of being in shape! I’m far from that now, hell I can make six miles or even more but not with the pace I want. Being able to do it easily every day of the week easily is also a key.
On top endurance and stamina, flexibility and strength are the other keys to what I call being in shape. I rarely weigh myself but I know my body well enough to approximate my weight pretty well. The important thing about being in shape is the energy that’s how you should measure progress, everything else (weight loss, tone etc...) will fall in place. You will always have a fast weight loss when you start any regiment in the first week or two, that’s the easy part. What you do after that is where you earn it which is why weight loss is not the most important thing to gauge progress.
Time for me to start getting ready for bed after staying up so late the past few nights working on different items.

I cleared enough space in the garage for workouts on the weights. I am still in the process of getting more things out of the house to get room in the garage permanently!!

One thing at a time though!

The heat has me staying close to the house and near the pool. I do enjoy the warm summer weather though and a nice dip in the pool.

The last pines was cut down and my Oaks are planted, prepped with the plant food is mixed in the soil. I only had to stake the Valley Oak. The Bur Oak was a bit more mature and had a stronger trunk.

Both tress I had left in the pots the past week and were a bit dry because they were dropped off earlier than I expected and could not get the time to plant them.

The Bur Oak's roots had gone through the bottom of the planting pot so I had to cut the pot off.

The biggest issue was digging through and weeding all of the roots from the trees I had cut down.

I gave them a generous watering without turning it into a swamp and with the food I left in the soil plus the food tablet from the Sacramento Tree Foundation and constantly keeping the trees watered I should be able to resuscitate them.

I am also closer to making my new system the primary system once I move all of my critical data to the drives. I moved one of my drives I took off of my music server and placed it on my new system. I moved the drives to the place they will be permanently on the system until my next hardware upgrade! Most of the applications are already loaded and everything is working fine.

I will post my old system and new system specs later. I am however moving from a 478 P4 to an AMD 64 bit system with an Adaptec 39160 and some screaming drives. The new system is very fast!

I will finally get my trees into the dirt Saturday that SMUD and the Sacramento Tree Foundation http://www.sactree.com/ left me.

Hopefully I didn't wait too long but I wanted my last pine tree cut down so that the trees that I got from the Sacramento Tree Foundation wouldn't be injured from the tree getting chopped down. I usually have a good green thumb but it will be tested having the tress in the pots this long.

I will completed that project and then will eye a few other things like finishing the transition pieces between the rooms.

I am going to place a screen/security door for my French doors off the master bedroom so I can have a nice breeze at night and during the day without letting bugs in.