Fantasy Foozeball...one more reason to keep the TV off on Sundays

If you don't own a TV or computer, or know any guys...or masculine chicks...it's football season. Let the yawning and blank stares commence. As if real-life teams didn't provide ample opportunity to argue with random drunkards in bars and possibly lose substantial monetary assets, someone thought it would be super nifty to create fake teams a.k.a. Fantasy Teams and argue and bet on them. Sweet.

So what is Fantasy Football exactly, besides of course an excuse for every channel on (basic) cable to show a football game and men to commandeer the remote to flip through 6 different games in an 8 hour period (and "sometimes the U.S. Open, when Oklahoma became a shut out and all other games were on commercial")? Well it's just like real-life football, but this time you're the manager and design a "dream team" by picking any players you want from any team in the NFL. Each week players are assigned scores according to their stats from that week and your team competes against other teams in your "League".

All sports jibber jabber aside, I find myself strangely interested in this conundrum of testosterone and spandex pants (I think cuz I tend to be slightly competitive sometimes..and well...I just wanna win!). Unfortunately, I know diddly about the NFL..here's what I do know: I know some teams! Although, one of my hands provides more than enough fingers to list which teams I know of (no, I'm not a victim of a radioactive spill). I understand the actual game of football. And I also know people spend way too much money to advertise during the Super Bowl...money which could very well end world hunger...I'm just sayin'. However, my (very limited) knowledge, while not a complete loss, doesn't provide a good foundation for picking individual players ('specially since most players have been grouped into name categories like: Hot, Fluffy and What The Heck Did They Feed Him As A Child?).

All cynicism aside, the whole fantasy league thingy piques my interest and someone told me there's one for basketball...I might have to try that out...ya know, for research purposes. Any tips for creating the best team and winning every League thingy from here to Timbuktu...or am I just having a Fantasy?

Surveys: A special gift from Hell.

This is Amurica ok people. I have rights for cryin' out loud! So will someone please explain to me the necessity people in bearuocratic positions feel for harassing decent, God fearing people, to fill out surveys. Doggonit if I don't feel like filling out a cotton pickin survey and giving you...and everybody in cyber space...my personal information, I don't have to.

Now before you folks get on your soap box and give me a good tellin' to, I am completely aware of and understand the purpose of a survey. Gather information to better serve the community yadda yadda yadda....If there's one thing I've learned from reading business and psychology books and articles it's that everyone, that is every single person in this world only cares about one single thing. Themselves. It's a hard habit to break and I am a firm believer in realizing you have a problem is the first step to fixing it, but I...well, that's another blog.

Right now I'm angry. Wellllll......more annoyed than anything.

One book in particular claims the ONLY way to get someone to do something they don't want to do, is to make them WANT to do it. How? Well you'll have to read the book for that trade secret...and as testimony, I've had several surveys presented to me in the last few months, I haven't wanted to do them and so I refused to participate. This resulted in several garbage bags full of sticky-door letters and a worn out delete button from those nasty emails...I'm currently in a "battle" right now...I'll win, it's just a  matter of riding out the storm.

Paranoid. Selfish. Whatever the subconscious reason may be, this is one thing I have put my foot down for and I'm not budging....it's the principle really...What is the principle? Oh...well, yah know, to be able to choose not to do something you don't want to do if you don't have to...and not be harassed with 8 million EMAILS AND PAMPHLETS!!!