Fall and Holidays Arrive / Ryan Home / Lego & N64 Nostalgia / Fantasy Football
The weather, just in the last couple weeks, has really turned soggy. Fall has arrived. It's always kind of sad to see Summer vanish so abruptly, but that's how it goes. It's that time of the year here in Oregon. We stop getting bright, sunny, 80-degree days and begin seeing damp, dark, 50-degree days more often than not. This morning, in particular, we had quite a storm move over us that kept the sky really dark until noon. With each passing day, the sun goes down earlier and earlier and we're not yet at the Daylight Savings switch. When that happens and we lose another hour of daylight, it will be sad. But all is not lost! Yesterday we saw eggnog for sale, which for me personally, denotes the arrival of the holiday season. Upon slowly drinking my first glass of nog last night, I felt festive and welcomed the dreary, wet, crappy weather. Bring winter on!
My brother, Ryan, has been home for almost a whole week now. Things have been pretty smooth so far as he and the rest of us transition back to having him around. There isn't really a whole lot going on to talk about since were both doing the job hunting thing with the occasional visit from/with friends or trip out to do some shopping. Although him and I are trying to get back into playing Starcraft here and there, so it's a welcome break from all my other projects I've got going on.
One of my recent projects has been cleaning out the shed in our backyard of all my stuff from my childhood. This has been an ongoing process that's spanned several weeks now, but I'm really glad I've done this. The vast majority of everything I've come across has been either recycled, donated to friends/Goodwill, sold at that garage sale from two weeks ago or thrown out since a lot of it hasn't survived well from decades in the non-air conditioned shed. Ryan has even gotten in on the act and has begun going through the shed himself looking for things to sell on eBay or to use again. Some of the things we've found have sparked our nostalgia. We ran into several fairly large caches of Lego toys and have begun assembling whatever sets we can identify with the intent to store them better or sell them online if they're valuable enough. It's really cool to see complete sets of these Legos arise out of piles of random bricks. Ryan is eager to put together as much as he can and store them away safely in plastic bags for storage. We even found a website that sells individual bricks from every Lego set ever for literally pennies each. Legos rule.
Also in the shed, we stumbled upon some old video game stuff, namely a bunch of Nintendo 64 things. Ryan, while he was at college, did a little collecting of N64 stuff and it got packed away and stored in the shed. The box contained a couple dozen games, at least five controllers and two N64 console decks that we assume work. We've now got a childish desire to play the old console again, so we'll be hooking it back up soon and goofing off. There are so many little things in my room I have to deal with first, though, that my time is totally swamped. But between the Legos and the Nintendo stuff, the kid in me has been satisfied as of late.
There's also the competitive person in me that needs his satisfaction too. A month or two ago, my college buddies Matt and Cassandra got me signed up to play in their online fantasy football league. At first, I didn't really pay much attention or do much with my automatically-drafted team, but in the last couple weeks, as I've learned more and been playing against my friends, I've gotten into it. It's a little like playing the lotto for free- You pick your players for that week and wait and see if they win or lose or do well or break an arm. It also gives me some incentive to give a damn about football for once, since typically I really don't care much for the sport. This Sunday, my team, the Tropical Depressions, plays against Matt's Stumptown Strikers. It's gonna be a wild match.
My brother, Ryan, has been home for almost a whole week now. Things have been pretty smooth so far as he and the rest of us transition back to having him around. There isn't really a whole lot going on to talk about since were both doing the job hunting thing with the occasional visit from/with friends or trip out to do some shopping. Although him and I are trying to get back into playing Starcraft here and there, so it's a welcome break from all my other projects I've got going on.
One of my recent projects has been cleaning out the shed in our backyard of all my stuff from my childhood. This has been an ongoing process that's spanned several weeks now, but I'm really glad I've done this. The vast majority of everything I've come across has been either recycled, donated to friends/Goodwill, sold at that garage sale from two weeks ago or thrown out since a lot of it hasn't survived well from decades in the non-air conditioned shed. Ryan has even gotten in on the act and has begun going through the shed himself looking for things to sell on eBay or to use again. Some of the things we've found have sparked our nostalgia. We ran into several fairly large caches of Lego toys and have begun assembling whatever sets we can identify with the intent to store them better or sell them online if they're valuable enough. It's really cool to see complete sets of these Legos arise out of piles of random bricks. Ryan is eager to put together as much as he can and store them away safely in plastic bags for storage. We even found a website that sells individual bricks from every Lego set ever for literally pennies each. Legos rule.
Also in the shed, we stumbled upon some old video game stuff, namely a bunch of Nintendo 64 things. Ryan, while he was at college, did a little collecting of N64 stuff and it got packed away and stored in the shed. The box contained a couple dozen games, at least five controllers and two N64 console decks that we assume work. We've now got a childish desire to play the old console again, so we'll be hooking it back up soon and goofing off. There are so many little things in my room I have to deal with first, though, that my time is totally swamped. But between the Legos and the Nintendo stuff, the kid in me has been satisfied as of late.
There's also the competitive person in me that needs his satisfaction too. A month or two ago, my college buddies Matt and Cassandra got me signed up to play in their online fantasy football league. At first, I didn't really pay much attention or do much with my automatically-drafted team, but in the last couple weeks, as I've learned more and been playing against my friends, I've gotten into it. It's a little like playing the lotto for free- You pick your players for that week and wait and see if they win or lose or do well or break an arm. It also gives me some incentive to give a damn about football for once, since typically I really don't care much for the sport. This Sunday, my team, the Tropical Depressions, plays against Matt's Stumptown Strikers. It's gonna be a wild match.