Saturday, May 28, 2005

Fantasy Baseball

A little update on the fantasy front. Vladimir is down and the Corked Bats Squad is not longer corked. I'm on the verge of losing 2 weeks in a row, after not losing a week yet. Some good things must come to an end. Even though I was winning the margins weren't enough to keep me that far ahead in my league.

In my other league on the other hand, there is no competition. I'm destroying every team that I play, and am well ahead in the standings. I had to post about it, because it really can't last much longer. I'm probably jinxing myself royally, but if I don't post about it now, it will be lost forever, long forgotten as I lose the rest of the season. Right now I am 23.5 games ahead of second place. I'm playing the team in second place right now, and am winning 11-2, which may not end up that way on Monday, but even so, it will take a few shutouts for anyone to make ground.

Have a happy holiday weekend, I'll be relaxing, drinking some brews and playing a little cornhole. Too windy for disc golf, still haven't been out yet, but I will be very soon.

Waj

I can see my house from here!

Google has done it again. First their search absolutely destroys yahoo and msn. Then their maps system (although still in Beta) is by far much better than mapquest or yahoo maps. The clean interface, dragging of the map, in my opinion, is way better than mapquest or yahoo. Now they have a link where you can actually view a satellite image of the address you are looking for. Some addresses you can zoom in further than others, but still amazing. I'm not sure if all images were taken at the same time, but judging by the buildings in our area, we estimated they were about 5 years old.

Hey there's my house!

Waj

Wednesday, May 25, 2005

Obligatory 60 day post

What can I say, who has the time? Went on a fishing trip this past weekend in MN, near Wynona if anyone knows MN. Its walleye country up there, but out of our group of 10 people, only 2 were keepers. We also caught a few Northern, big suckers too.

I've been pretty busy so far this year, can't believe we're going on the 6th month already. Summertime is here again. Weekend gatherings, daylight until 9:00, and of course the evergrowing grass that needs to be cut.

The new job is going great, though its really diminishing my IT skills. I piddle around on the server a few times a week(next up SBS SP 1), but the day to day troubleshooting I am used to doesn't happen when you have 10 PCs to support, and even though some aren't the most PC saavy people, they are smart enough not to cause problems. Speaking of support, I had an offer to support a side project of our graphic designer. She was thinking about hosting a web site and setting up a mini network. Any of my faithful readers that host their own sites have any suggestions on firewalls? I don't know much about hosting a site, as far as the incoming Internet traffic and how to keep it under control. I would be mostly in charge of the hardware, but I'm sure I'd be doing most of the initial setup.

That's about all I have time for today, but I'll try to post more often.

Go Cubs. Beat Valley!

Waj