There's a reason I haven't been blogging for the past week. I'm between trips. I took last Friday off and flew down to Northern California for the weekend with my kids and some friends. The main purpose of this trip was so that I could participate in the live auction for my fantasy baseball league.
There are many flavors of fanatasy baseball leagues; mine is classic rotisserie (for those of you who care about such details). I have a squad of 35 players (real major league baseball players) covering all the positions on a real team. At any given time, 23 of them are active, and 12 are on the bench, and once a week I get to rearrange. This goes on from opening day through to the last game of the regular season. Every time one of the payers on my team does well in real life, my team accrues points (ok, this is a slight simplification, but that's the basic notion). There are 10 other "team owners" like me, and at the end of the regular season whoever has the most points wins.
We start out every year by getting together in a hotel conference room in Vallejo, California on the Saturday before opening day and we hold a live auction for players. Each owners gets $260 of imaginary money, and can decide for themselves on a bidding strategy to get the players they want. We then engage in approximately 5 hours of verbal mortal combat as we try to get key players and bargain-priced prospects. I spend days preparing (as do all the other owners) and go in with a specific strategy; and I'm always prepared to abandon it within the first 15 minutes as things unfold. This is the 6th year I've done this, and it went compeltely differently than it ever has before; I'll write about that separately in a little while. The draft is always stressful, agonizing, suspenseful, and great fun. I look forward to it with great glee every year.
So now I'm back at home, and I'm playing catch-up both at work and at home. Tomorrow night, my kids go off with their mom for a week for spring break. And on Saturday, I'm taking off for 5 days of relaxation in Hawaii.
Of course, between then I have to get everything wrapped up at work (including budgets for next fiscal year), pay bills, do my taxes, and work through the pile of dirty laundry. But let's just say I'm "highly motivated" to get it all done by Saturday morning.
6:52:05 PM  ; ;
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