no more bedhead

Not to be outdone, UEFA Champions League also has a fantasy game.  I had to sign up for that too, of course.

Here's my lineup:

Goalkeeper: Cech (Chelsea)
Defender: O'Shea (Manchester United), Rolando (Porto), Gallas (Arsenal), Diakhate (Dynamo Kyiv)
Midfielder: Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid), Fernando (Porto), Xabi Alonso (Real Madrid), Song (Arsenal)
Forward: Messi (Barcelona), Lisandro (Lyon)

Subs:
Goalkeeper: Rensing (Bayern)
Defender: Evra (Manchester United)
Midfielder: Ghioane (Dynamo Kyiv)
Forward: Bojan Krkic (Barcelona)

This time I got in in time for Matchday 1, which starts tomorrow.  I logged in today and I get a notification that Bojan Krkic is injured.  Try as I might, I cannot determine if he will be out for the game on Wednesday.  I know that he is out of the Spain Under-20 squad, but can't find any more information.  Unfortunately anyone I want to transfer for him is significantly lower in the standings, so I don't want to make a move if he's going to be okay for this game.  He's in my sub list, so I could leave him there as long as Messi and Lisandro play.  I just may take the chance.

Nevermind, while I was sitting here I pulled the plug on Krkic, and replaced him with Niang (Marseille).

Again, my club name: Blue Albatross FC.

AAAAAAAAAAL-batross!!

And by football, I mean real football.

The English Premiere League has a fantasy league, and I decided to join this year.  A little late.  In Matchweek 5, but hey, better late than never.  So, this is my lineup going into my first matchweek:

Goalkeeper: Cech (Chelsea)
Defender: Johnson (Liverpool), Upson (West Ham), Shorey (Aston Villa), Shawcross (Stoke City)
Midfielder: Lampard (Chelsea), Cattermole (Sunderland), Diaby (Arsenal), Bowyer (Birmingham)
Forward: Rooney (Manchester United), Drogba (Chelsea)

Subs:
Goalkeeper: Foster (Manchester United)
Defender: Bikey (Burnley)
Midfielder: Hunt (Hull City)
Forward: Keogh (Wolverhampton)

I hoped that this lineup was okay, except I noticed that Diaby scored an own goal in Matchweek 4.  Still, I stuck with this lineup through the week.  I didn't do too bad for not knowing who most of these players are.  I scored 49 points this week.  That has me at 11,864 out of 69,077 who signed up this week, and 1,907,607 overall out of 1,979,085.

My only concern this week is that Shorey didn't play this week, and looks like he has been relegated to the substitutes for Aston Villa.  So I may transfer him before Matchweek 6.  Looking at Ab Faye (Stoke City) to take his place.  I think it would be a good trade, and actually save me some payroll to boot.

My club name?  Blue Albatross FC.  I even get to design my own kit.  I chose solid blue shirt, with white sleeves, white shorts, and black socks.  I'll have to do up a graphic to add here.

So let's have a cheer, shall we?  AAAAAAAAAAL-batross!

Why, when I am trying to edit audio, do the kids feel the need to break out the maracas?

This is one very cool video.  It was posted on Facebook by a friend of mine, I reposted it for my other friends, and now two of them have passed it along as well.  The story goes that this woman won "Ukraine's Got Talent" with her Sand Animation.  In this video, she is telling the story of when the Germans invaded the Ukraine in World War II.  It's something you have to see.




This reminds me of something I saw at General Convention.  The Diocese of Los Angeles event was an "emergent church" service, which I really wanted to like.  Not so much.  But, one of the very cool parts was a guy who was on stage painting as the different Bible verses were being read and the "sermon" was being delivered.  The special thing about this was that he was painting with tempera paint on glass that was lit from behind.  It glowed.  When he would finish a painting, he would take a picture of it, then dip a squeegee in water and wipe the glass clean (or at least move the paint around on it to give himself a new canvas).  It was very cool.

This is an amazing video. Wanted to pass it along.

I am trying to catch up on some posts that I should have published while on the road. I am 'back-dating' them, so that they show up in the right order, so if you've been following along you might not see them. I'll list them here as they are posted, so you can find them, then a few days after the last one is live, I'll delete this post. Just so's you know.

End of Convention - Vacation Begins!
Main Street, USA
Tomorrowland
Fantasyland
Mickey's Toontown
New Orleans Square
Critter Country
Frontierland
Adventureland

Great video that encapsulates in 6 minutes what happened in almost 2 weeks.

You know that song? That woman sings it. It's in that movie. You know the one, right?

We finally made it home. Got in about 11:00 last night, and boy is it nice to not be driving anymore!!

Our last two legs were uneventful. We went from Oklahoma City to St. Louis. Got up yesterday morning and headed home from St. Louis. The only weird thing was this:


Looks just like the Largest Cross in the Western Hemisphere, don't it? Guess what? It's larger. It's in Effingham, Illinois (a town my kids just love the name of...the older two specifically...ahhh, middle school humor), and the people here were so inspired by the cross in Texas that they built there own. Not to be outdone, or maybe to outdo, they built it 8 feet taller. So, we saw the two largest crosses in the Western Hemisphere. That should cover church for a week or two, don't'cha think?

And, for those of you who have been following chronologically, you may have noticed that I stopped posting at General Convention, and that there are no Disneyland posts. My hope is to do a couple of "recap" pages here this week. We'll see how that goes. Watch this space for more details!

Anaheim -> Mojave Desert -> Barstow -> Ontario -> Flagstaff -> Farmington -> Oklahoma City -> St. Louis -> Home