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Where Has the Week Gone?

This is just to let everyone know I'm still around. The week's almost over and I don't even remember it having started, let alone set aside time for blog posting. Hopefully I'll get a chance to re-rent Madden tomorrow and post some more rambling almost-deep-enough-to-be-noteworthy- thoughts up next week.

Monday night we kicked off our inaugural office fantasy football league at work. It was a riot. We staked out a conference room and landed a video projector. So I whipped up a set of Excel spreadsheets listing each round's draft order (it was like a snake draft, but every other round the basic draft order was reshuffled), player's taken and the current team on the clock. I then linked those to a PowerPoint presentation and just like that my laptop was churning out scrolling draft update slides on a huge projected screen while I made updates on my laptop's LCD. We've got wireless at work so half the guys had their laptops there and were looking up updated injury information, training camp stuff, etc. with each pick.

With ten teams we managed to get through all 14 rounds in just two and a half hours. That had to be some kind of record. On the whole I was fairly happy with my lineup. I started out with the third overall pick. Tomlinson and Manning were already gone after the first two so I went with Shaun Alexander. Along the way I manged to pick up Clinton Portis, Marc Bulger, Andre Johnson, Nate Burleson and Jason Witten for my starting lineup, with Carnell Williams, Michael Clayton and Larry Fitzgerald for backups.

Certainly I'll have the deepest team in the league as a lot of guys picked at least a couple headscratchers. Brandon Stokely in the third round? Mewelde Moore the first pick in the seventh (with Fred Taylor, Chris Brown, Carnell Williams and other still available)? One team is going to be leaning on Jake Plummer as their primary QB (interceptions count in this league). Scary. Some nutty stuff, in my opinion. Regardless, a good time was had by all and it should be a fun league since half of us end up in the same meetings at work.