Just for fun...enjoy

Ahhh....some lovely distractions

Well, it's been a while since I wrote something on my blog...and for no good reason either...well sort of...

Sitting in my chair, Chai tea by my side, and I am looking at my screen ready to confess some things.

First of all, time is can sometimes be cruel. Not enough hours in a day to work on stuff I personally want to do.

Let's start with a game, besides Geocaching, that I love...Fantasy Football!

If you don't know what Fantasy Football is, you are going to have to do an internet search. Don't have enough room to go over all the little details but here is a quick and general run down.....Fantasy Football is a game where a group of people get together and do what is called a 'draft'. That is where the 'coaches' or 'owners' pick players from the NFL. Nobody can have the same player that was previously picked. Example: If I draft Payton Manning, quarterback of the Denver Broncos, nobody else in the 'league' can draft him. Each NFL week, whatever the NFL players do in real life, your 'team' scores points. You compare your total points with a different team each week and figure out who 'wins' and who 'loses'. A win-lose record is kept. Towards the end of the NFL season we have what is called a 'play-off' (usually starts on week 14 in the NFL). The best teams of the fantasy league go into the play-offs. If you lose, you are eliminated until there is only one team left and that team is considered the Fantasy Football Champion!

If this doesn't make sense, like I said, do an internet search. There are probably websites that can explain it better and in greater detail.

So what does this have to do with me and my blog about Geocaching Route 66? A lot.

People that organize fantasy football leagues are called commissioners. And this guys loves being the commissioner. I get a kick out organizing leagues and creating some fun. I commission 3 leagues and in 2 of those leagues, the team that does the worst, gets renamed by some else in the league. I have a wrestling style belt for one league for the winner. One of my leagues is one I do at work. We don't have any money on the line, but I do have 2 traveling trophies for winners. And so on...

With so many leagues to run, comes time consuming activities like emailing leaguemates, organizing league get togethers, and watching/listening to a lot of football.

Which in turn, has taken some of my time away from adding to my blog, but I am having the time of my life at the moment (even when my teams are doing horrible). And isn't that part of life? Enjoying the small things? Even if they can be distracting?

I haven't forgotten about Geocaching Route 66. In fact, I have mapped out my route through Illinois with a list of over 400 goecaches to go for so far. (Doubt I'll get them all, but this too has been fun to do.)

I also haven't forgotten about working on my goals, which will be in my next blog. I will let you know ahead of time, I am have not been doing well and have been thinking about a different approach on trying to reach my goals. 

Until next time, enjoy life folks.

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