The rematch of last year’s Super Bowl proved to be quite a bit more exciting and suspenseful than the Super Bowl itself. Peyton Manning drove the Broncos down the field for a touch down and two point conversion to tie up the game with seconds remaining, but then Russell Wilson matched him and led the Seahawks to a game winning OT TD. Oh and by the way, Peyton Manning is making more than 22 times as much money as Russell Wilson this year.
In our league, all of the games except one ended on Sunday without needing Monday Night Football to finish them off. Logan and Andy broke their losing streaks, and Tim defeated Luke to be the only remaining undefeated team.
Bye weeks start this week! Combined with all the injuries to big names in the league this week, please pay close attention to your roster to avoid 0’s.
Now on to the weekly awards.
- Highest Team Score
- This Week: Ben had 129.50
- Season: In Week 1, Ben had 137.85
- All-Time: In 2013, Tim had 195.50
- Lowest Team Score
- This Week: Luke had 55.04
- Season: The previous record was in Week 1, Jim had 82.00
- All-Time: In 2011, Luke had 47.01
- Biggest Blowout
- This Week: Tim beat Luke by 64.34
- Season: The previous record was in Week 2, Jim beat Dad by 49.04
- All-Time: In 2010, Luke beat Andy by 113.02
- Closest Win
- This Week: Andy beat Dad by 7.82.
- Season: In Week 2, Austin beat Ben by 1.7
- All-Time: In 2012, Jim beat Ben by 0.12
- Highest Scoring Player
- This Week: Andrew Luck had 40.30 for Ben
- Season: The previous record was in Week 1, Matt Ryan scored 37.42 for Dad
- All-Time: In 2013, Peyton Manning scored 60.28 for Andy
- Longest Winning Streaks:
- Active: Tim has a 3 game winning streak
- Season: Tim has a 3 game winning streak
- All-Time: In 2011, Micah had an 8 game winning streak
- Longest Losing Streaks:
- Active: Dad has 2 game losing streak
- Season: Dad, Logan and Andy had 2 game losing streaks
- All-Time: In 2011, Kyle had a 14 game losing streak
While Peyton played a pretty good game, he did give us some good “Manning Faces” to choose from. This one was near the end of the game after Kam Chancellor intercepted him and ran it back 52 yards to the Denver 35.
You can never have too many outlets in your shop. I finally got fed up with running extension cords all over the place so while Dad was visiting, we got our electrician on. Three new outlets were added inside: one near the bottom of my shelves to power the air compressor and the battery tender for the motorcycle, one by the irrigation clock, one up in the rafters by the IR light and the security camera. We also added two more outside that are on the same timer circuit as my outdoor lights: one is near the ground and one is up under the eaves. Why do that? For Christmas lights of course! I’ll have easy places to plug them in and then I’ll be able to control them with our 
After about a year of flying cheapo RC planes made out of foam board from the dollar store, I feel like I’m ready to attempt my first “real” RC plane. A huge thanks goes to Tyla for buying me the 
Ouch. Tough game for the Seahawks. It stands to reason that they weren’t going to run through the season undefeated but I wouldn’t have guessed that San Diego would have taken them out. San Diego played a pretty solid game though aside from some poorly timed penalties. Hopefully Pete Carroll can turn this around and use it to encourage the team.
My neighbors have had to look at quite a mess for the past couple months. The back yard is beautiful but all we did in the front yard was tear out all the plants and leave 4-5 yards of dirt piled up in the side yard. We took a break from that project to give Tim time to put new siding on his house. The siding is done so it’s back to the yard project!
So you need to share a big file or a bunch of files that add up to a lot. This problem has been around since time began and it’s often still easier to hand someone a physical piece of media like an SD card or a CD. But there are (free) ways to do it online and they aren’t terribly difficult. I can think of a dozen different ways to do it off the top of my head, but I’m going to pick one and yes, it’s a Microsoft solution. What did you expect?
Ride Along
I thought a lot about this last weekend while driving around a 5300lb truck pulling 10,000 pounds of trailer and dirt. It’s the truck driver’s responsibility to be safe, but just in the short time I was driving that rig, there were at least a couple people who were saved from a messy death only because I guessed ahead of time that they were going to do something stupid.