Fantasy football 2007/2008 season review

Amazingly this was my first season of playing Fantasy Football of any kind, ever! I signed up to the official Premier League version and joined the league operated in work. My team name, Bullock’s Ballbags, aptly named considering where I finished up!

I started off slowly learning the rules the hard way by completely changing my team early on in the season and taking a big transfer points deduction on the few points I had gained so far! I didn’t know what the “wildcard” was at that point! As you’d expect Everton players formed the backbone of my team throughout the season.

My team slide down the league as did my dedication to the cause. However a few changes to the side at New Year got me moving up the leagueagain . Unfortunately I was too far gone to make any kind of a difference to the top of the table. I finished 19th in the league for work and 546,674th overall. I managed to steal that 19th place from a colleague on the last day of the season!

One thing playing fantasy football did this year was make me take more of an interest in the other games shown on MoTD apart from the Everton games!

Bring on 2008/2009!

The blog is back

After a break of nearly 5 years, my blog is back.

I first started blogging back in 2002. I posted about anything and everything that interested me, the blog also allowed me to document my many attempts to quit smoking. The blog only lasted a year due to various reasons however in 2005 I finally quit smoking!

So why have I started again?

Well I’m a web developer without any presence on the Internet which just isn’t right. Last year I decided to correct this by creating a personal web site. While deciding what to put on the site the idea of having a blog again came about. Since then I’ve found myself thinking about things that occur in daily life that I could have blogged about. I finally decided to do something about it and set up a blog so I have an outlet for my rants!

I should also say that the inspriation to get off my arse and actually get this blog up and running was finding out that 2 people I know through “real life” had blogs (hat tip: Rhys & Andrew). I suggest you go and check their blogs out as they are both an excellent read!

I’m still getting to grips with WordPress so expect changes to the blog fairly often!