The Seahawks were on a bye this week. Now they have 13 straight weeks to make their run at back to back Super Bowls. I actually didn’t get to watch any games this weekend, but I did peek in at our league a couple times. The big story in our league is Tim’s continued undefeated domination. Dad is having a pretty strong season and gets the next crack at Tim in Week 5.
I wrote a new app for our league. If it works, it will monitor the league and send emails to people who have players that are Out, Questionable, or on a bye week. (It does not notify for Probable players.) If someone on your team gets flagged by the tool, you’ll get an email on Thursday morning and/or Saturday evening. Don’t rely on this tool! This is the first week and I’m sure there are some bugs that I haven’t found. If you have comments about the tool, please share them. For example, I wasn’t sure if it should email for Questionable players. Also, if you want to opt out of the emails, let me know.
Now on to the weekly awards.
- Highest Team Score
- This Week: Dad had 154.98.
- Season: The previous record was in Week 1, Ben had 137.85
- All-Time: In 2013, Tim had 195.50
- Lowest Team Score
- This Week: Logan had 69.53.
- Season: In Week 3, Luke had 55.04
- All-Time: In 2011, Luke had 47.01
- Biggest Blowout
- This Week: Tim beat Austin by 37.95.
- Season: In Week 3, Tim beat Luke by 64.34
- All-Time: In 2010, Luke beat Andy by 113.02
- Closest Win
- This Week: Dad beat Luke by 17.53.
- 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: Eli Manning had 40.10 for Andy.
- Season: In Week 3, Andrew Luck had 40.30 for Ben
- All-Time: In 2013, Peyton Manning scored 60.28 for Andy
- Longest Winning Streaks:
- Active: Tim has a 4 game winning streak
- Season: Tim has a 4 game winning streak
- All-Time: In 2011, Micah had an 8 game winning streak
- Longest Losing Streaks:
- Active: Luke and Austin have a 2 game losing streak
- Season: Dad, Logan, Luke, Austin and Andy had 2 game losing streaks
- All-Time: In 2011, Kyle had a 14 game losing streak
For quite a few years, NASCAR has had internet subscription models for watching and listening to the races. But now, for the first time, NASCAR surprised me by offering all of the remaining races this season for free on YouTube (after the race is over.) That’s an especially cool deal for me since some of these races are on ESPN which I don’t pay for anymore. You can check out the 
I’m continually amazed by people merging in front of big trucks and semis, especially as traffic is coming to a stop. I see it every day. Why do you think the truck is leaving that space? It’s so they don’t kill the people in front of them. I wonder if it would help to add a “big rig ride along” day as part of driver’s ed. Students would go ride with a professional driver for an hour or so. Drivers would learn a lot about how long it takes to stop a truck and what cars do that is dangerous around trucks. There are likely a lot of legal and liability issues with that idea, but if implemented correctly, it might improve our overall safety.
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.
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
I-405 Project
I had thought that after the change, we wouldn’t be able to get onto 522 from 160th St anymore but it looks like they have accounted for that in the design. That’s great for us because it means we’ll be able to head out that way without driving through the traffic mess in Woodinville.
The people who bought those townhomes right along the new braided exit ramps are going to be treated to an enormous sound blocking wall right outside their balconies. They’re going from having a view that had about 3 or 4 rows of trees between them and 405 to seeing a concrete wall 10-20 feet away. Ouch. At least the real estate market is starting to recover around here so some of the decrease will be masked.
And since I mentioned real estate, here’s a semi-related factoid: the guy who bought our condo from us sold it a few months ago. He sold it for about 20% more than he bought it so he made a little money after all the fees and taxes. Our house has gone up about 3-4 times as much as that condo did though so I still think it was a good financial move. (And it was a great move for many other reasons.)