rob’s place

Since I’m on vacation, here’s another video for the day.

Baby Fart

Since I’m going on vacation for a dozen days, I’ve set up my blog to give you a video each day, starting today. Enjoy!

Real Life Simpson’s Intro

I’m coming to you live courtsey of Orlando International Airport’s free wi-fi!

Due to the high likelihood of our flight tomorrow being cancelled, we’re leaving on vacation NOW!

We had 3 hours to get ready after we got our flight changed. Whew!

So I’m on blogging break. I may blog some while on vacation but I’m not planning on it. However, if everything goes correctly, you’ll have some daily entertainment here at rob’s place.

And while I’m still in the US and have phone service, I may moblog a bit on Flickr.

So stick around…while I don’t. Off to Vancouver we go!

forcast map, originally uploaded by orangejack.

The google map mashup forecast on Ernesto is that he’ll be a tropical storm when he goes right by Orlando tomorrow afternoon.

That’s the same time we’re catching a flight…so we think anyway.

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30 Seconds, originally uploaded by orangejack.

Saw this at Kinko’s last night. I bet it takes him longer than 30 seconds to teach us how to get our point across.

I had a feeling that this guy might drift east a lot more than they were saying early on. Turns out now he is. He was heading to Tampa, now it’s Miami.

There’s a good chance he may not even make it back to hurricane status before landfall. There’s also a chance it’ll keep drifting east and not make a Florida landfall at all.

There’s just no telling, but we’re still in the cone, and there still could be a hurricane heading to Orlando. But most likely, we’ll get wet and windy…but not that much of it.

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I did this last year and it was a lot of fun. What you do is pick one NFL team you are sure will win their next game. If you’re right, you pick again the next week. You’re wrong, you’re out…until everyone is out and we try again, if that happens!

In order to join the group, just go to Survival Football, click the “Sign Up” button and choose to “Join an Existing Group”, then “Join a Private Group”. Then, when prompted, enter the following information…

Group ID#: 11182
Password: *****

Note: The password is the city in which I live.

We watched the Emmys last night. For me it was the first time in years I actually watched most of an award show. But I enjoy this one since it’s about TV!

Of all the Emmy Award Winners, I was most happy about:

• The Office wining Outstanding Comedy Series
• Julia Louis-Dreyfus winning Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series
• The Amazing Race winning Outstanding Reality Competition Show
• Tony Shalhoub winning Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series

I was most disappointed that LOST wasn’t nominated for hardly anything.

Well, Ernesto is now the first hurricane of the season and it’s heading to Tampa.

It’s early yet and from what I can tell, it’s a little unpredictable right now. Hopefully it’ll calm itself down and still miss Florida. We’ll know a lot more tomorrow.

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A couple of weeks ago, Josh Robbins, Orlando Sentinel Staff Writer emailed me. He did a Google search for “fantasy football orlando” and found this site. He told me he wanted to do a story on if and how fantasy football effects the workplace. So I hooked Josh up with others in the league.

Today the article ran as the Sunday Showcase: Devotion is needed with fantasy football — and so is control. The non-printed two-pager starts here.

In talking about our new league blog, I did get some props:

On Aug. 16, Commissioner Rob Williams, a 35-year-old Internet consultant for Campus Crusade for Christ in Orlando, notified everybody else that his team’s name has changed from the Orlando Chupacabras to the Orlando Bullsharks.

He posted the entry at 7:21 a.m.

Before work.

I just had to pull this story from our league blog to share with you. It’s my true story. Sigh.

Mom Called

What do you do during the live draft to keep from being interrupted?

I had our draft date and time on my wife’s calendar for months. Nothing was going to get in the way of this draft. Nothing! Not even…

So the draft started at noon. At 12:01 the phone rang. Seriously, I double-checked the caller ID. I heard my wife pick up the phone. I’m watching the draft clock to see who is the #1 pick of the draft. I hear my wife say, “Hello, Olivia!”

Yup. My mom called at 12:01 on draft day.

What did I do? What would you do?

I got up, ran to the den, looked at my wife and motioned to her violently, “No! I can’t talk!” and ran back to my computer.

I may not be the best son, but I did get Steven Jackson and Ronnie Brown at the 12th and 13th pick overall.

Sorry mom.

draftday, originally uploaded by orangejack.

Well we just finished our live draft. Whew! I think I did alright. I picked 12th out of 12. But I don’t think it was that bad. Here’s my team. What do you think?

QB: Philip Rivers
RB: Steven Jackson
RB: Ronnie Brown
WR: Hines Ward
WR: Laveranues Coles
FLEX: Warrick Dunn
K: Josh Brown
DE: Vikings
BENCH: Kevin Jones, Todd Heap, Keyshawn Johnson, DeAngelo Williams, Troy Williamson, Matt Leinart

I feel good. I got 4 of my top 20.

Oh yeah, did you know we have a fantasy football league blog now? I made a motivational poster just for draft day.

UPDATE: Paul posted the full draft results if you’re interested.