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Alright, nobody has struck out or anything. And I’m sure that there WILL BE joy for the Ole Miss Rebels. But we won’t be experiencing that joy this year.

Despite having an awesome time last year. I’m unable to attend the Cotton Bowl this year. Unfortunately, I am doing a Server Migration at work and will not be able to attend. Val and the Girls will not be going this time either. I’m super stoked about our opponent though. Oklahoma State is a pretty good team, despite being in a weak conference. Should be another good bowl victory for the Rebels and for the SEC.

I actually will be DVRing the game this time, because I actually just bought all of us tickets to go see the Harlem Globetrotters at the FedEx forum that same day. So we’ll go to the Globetrotters, then we’ll come home and watch the Cotton Bowl. I’ll have to stay off twitter, and facebook and all that stuff for the whole day, or my watching it will be ruined.

Also because of the Server Migration at work, I don’t think we’re going to be able to get around and visit anyone over the Holiday Break. Val and the Girls might run somewhere to visit, or deliver presents or something, but I seriously doubt I’ll have time to get away.

But missing the Game, and not seeing the family over the break does have its advantages, Our Computers at work were sorely due for an upgrade, and we purchased bunches of those along with the new server. So fun times fun times. Does mean I won’t get a Christmas Vacation though. I’ll get Christmas Eve, Christmas Day though, and the Cotton Bowl Day. Other than that, I’ll be working. Probably even the weekends, depending upon how well it goes.

written by Chris \\ tags: Cotton Bowl, Football, Kids, Ole Miss, Valerie

So me and a bunch of my gaming group decided to start a football league. It’s freaking awesome. We’re playing Pizza Box Football. And we decided to do a six team league (two divisions of three teams) round robin league, with four teams making the playoffs, and two playoff games.

I like Pizza Box Football a lot. Even though I really shouldn’t based on its merits. I mean the game is essentially all about who can roll the highest numbers on offense. But there is just barely enough decision making, when you are on defense, where you can nudge the numbers in your direction slightly. It makes for an interesting game, where someone who is good will win a small portion of the time more than someone who is not, but in the end, luck will determine the win in one particular game, more than skill will.

Well, even with all that. Pizza Box Football is in short, FUN. A lot of FUN, it feels like you are coaching a football team. And sending in the plays. Whether or not they execute those correctly is up to the dice. By a large LARGE amount. At least, that is my excuse…

As far as the league goes, it’s actually quite interesting, and has sort of solved a little problem I had been having with some of the gaming in the group that has been going on lately. The fact that at least a few of us, me included, had kind of become blasé about who won the games. This creates a little bit of a history. One that we can look back on a bit, and reminisce about.

If you care to follow the league, (I won’t bore anyone with details here). You can follow the league at this thread at BGG: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/339192 I am keeping that thread updated with links to stories for all games, and updated with standings of our league. It will probably take the better part of four or five months for all of it to finish.

written by Chris \\ tags: Boardgames, Football, league

You would think without a home football game it would be kind of light…

I went to watch the Rebels Rifle team shoot on Saturday. They did alright, I don’t know exactly what they shot, or where they finished, but I’m sure you can go to the web site and find out all those exact kind of things that you may be interested in. It’s http://www.olemisssports.com for those that don’t know.

Anyway, so I was watching the cool new electronic target thingies on their LCD Televisions. They had the resolution way off on those things, as they were spitting out 1.33 aspect ratio to a 1.78 television. So between relays I helped them fix that, made it much clearer. Turns out they did that all last year too, and I never watched the TV’s long enough to notice.

I finally got Valerie to relinquish control of one of the remotes so I was able to flip between the computer showing the results, and the Kentucky/South Carolina game. And later, the Tennessee/Georgia game. Both of which royally sucked.

Anyway, the City was also teaching a hunters education course in the Guard portion of the building. So right about when Val was finishing up, a bunch of potential hunters start pouring into the range to take the live firing portion of their class. Of course, the city has never gotten the hang of scheduling this quite right, but it was alright because Val really was just finishing up.

She recruited me to help pull the electronic targets out of the five firing points that they were going to use. I suppose she doesn’t want people she doesn’t know shooting at targets which cost like $5,000 bucks each or something.

So she has me and a couple of other people grabbing and rolling these targets and stacking them behind each other in one line. I believe it was like 7 targets in a line. The targets are large sort of like movable walls, about 7 feet high. They are on wheels though to make them easy to move.

Alright, so the hunters start shooting, as nearly all the rifle people leave. Val wants to stay behind to put the targets back after they are finished because she’s running more relays the next morning. So I stay behind with her.

Hunters Education finishes up. And We start moving the targets back in place. Now, like I said they are all stacked in a line, and they are like movable wall things. Well, they are also very top heavy… You may see where this is going…

I grab one of the targets, which is probably a little too close to the one in front of it. I lean it back to put it on it’s wheels. Well, the front of the platform hit the wheels on the target in front of it. Which lifted it maybe an inch or two forward. Well, the top heaviness of the design made it fall forward slowly (well not that slowly, but slowly I could watch it but couldn’t save it.) It hit the one in front of it, and five targets begin to fall like dominoes.

I could feel Valerie’s heart sink. Anyway. After getting them all back we tested them and everything seemed fine. But still, it was kind of gut wrenching for a bit.

In the future, I suggest we avoid the domino setup for putting the targets away. That way, one falling can’t affect the other 11. But still. I digress.

written by Chris \\ tags: computer, Dominoes, Electronic Targets, Football, Ole Miss, Rifle, uh oh

written by Chris \\ tags: Football, Kentucky, Video

Hopefully it will be over soon. It’s long, it’s hot. It’s really bumming me out. We’ve had a pretty crappy couple of months here at the Oxford Chapter of the Boothe family. It’s not just due to the heat, but that definitely adds to it. I won’t go into any of it here, because it’s depressing and not really something I would post in a public forum anyway.

I know there was a four day stretch where the air conditioner did not shut off at all. Maybe a time or two at night, but other than that, it was going full speed all the time. I am not looking forward to that August Bill.

Anyway, I’m looking forward to dad coming home in a couple of weeks. I know the girls are too. Because they have told me in so many words. It’s one of the things I enjoy most about coming home and seeing them shout my name and run over to give me a hug. It almost makes it worth going to work just to get to come home to that.

I’ve found out that I’m going to have to miss another HOME football game this year. I had already given up that I wouldn’t go to the LSU game just so that I could go to Boardgamegeek.con in Dallas (They really have to got to learn to start scheduling around the SEC Schedules). Anyway. I was cool with that. I hate missing any conference game. Especially when it’s against the Arch Rival.

But now I have learned that I will definitely miss the Alabama game as well. I have to go to a conference in Orlando, FL that week/weekend for work. I had considered coming in on a red-eye on Friday Night and skipping the last day of the conference, but it really is fairly important stuff that they are covering on the last day (for our ERP software) so I felt I really needed to be there.

Oh well. I have a funny feeling that I won’t really miss a bunch this season. But who knows, maybe they can make it up to me by letting me go to Atlanta.

I need to get Val to post with a team outlook this year. I have some preseason stuff for GARC that I will be posting on the Garc website sometime in the next day or two. It was kind of interesting to read.

Alright. Later all. I promise it won’t be quite so long before I make another post.

written by Chris \\ tags: BGG.con, Family, Football, GARC, Mississippi, Rifle, Valerie, Work