After skipping out on the entire fantasy baseball season this year, I was thinking about doing the same with football. I haven’t been paying much attention to offseason moves around the NFL, so I’m not in any position to head into a draft. But after talking to a couple of people from last year’s league, I decided to go ahead and sign up again this year. It’s only for fun (well, ok — we do put a couple bucks on the line ) and it really does make Sundays more interesting.

One thing I’m going to do differently this year is make sure I attend the draft. Last year something came up at the last minute and I couldn’t log on, so I had to rely on the computer to make selections for me based on pre-determined rankings. That ended up being a complete disaster that saw me go into opening day with Aaron freakin’ Brooks as my starting QB. Yeah, don’t ask.

We have a full league with 12 managers, so I hope I can get a good draft number, like top five at least. Now I just have to go out there and start following training camps, contract situations, and injuries so I can make smart choices!

It has been so uncomfortably hot recently that I haven’t wanted to venture outdoors at all. I’m trying to run most of my errands at night so I don’t have to drive around with the sun beating down on me, but going to the bank or post office during the daytime is unavoidable. All I can say is thank goodness for auto air conditioning these days! I can’t even imagine how people drove around without air conditioning before… I’m sure that made for terribly unpleasant trips!

I guess the only thing left to do is look on the bright side: there’s just one more month of this weather and then things should start to cool off once we head into my September and football season!