The Official Blog of Rob Smith

It’s basically been raining all week, but most of my leave activities have been indoors so it hasn’t really ruined my leave at all. It’s been great to be able to get real Dunkin Donuts coffee. Here are some of the most significant events of my leave so far:
Fantasy Baseball Draft:
Already discussed some, but I [...]

Today, over three hours, we drafted our fantasy baseball teams for 2010. The league is in a bit of a funk, with perhaps some new owners needed. Four owners were unable to be at the draft in person, and one of those four forgot about it altogether and had to have his team chosen based [...]

On NFL overtime rule change: I think the system is an improvement; Malone I think that the possession is alternating, so if both teams get a field goal then team 2 will kick to team 1. That being said, winning the coin toss still gives the winner an advantage. I also think we can assume [...]

It’s good to be home. I made it from Iraq to home in near-record time, including spending only 30 minutes at Atlanta. The flight was absurdly long, and my sleep pattern needs to normalize, but it’s good to be home. I got to see all of my family yesterday and should see my friends and [...]

I am at the air base in Kuwait. It’s quite a process getting home, but I am breezing through it. I got lucky in getting a spot on the flight from Baghdad to Kuwait yesterday. There’s been very little sleep. Now I have my flight reservations to CT and also from CT at the end [...]

Due to my travel arrangements for my trip home, and uncertainty over whether I’ll have internet access over the next few days, I will have to remove the popular “Up-To-The-Minute Keeper Declarations” section from www.therobsmith.com at 3:00pm Eastern Time today, March 18th. Unfortunately this means that everyone should also plan on sending their keeper declarations [...]

Perrotti, I love that you are exclusively announcing your keeper selections on www.therobsmith.com. I plan to do the same thing. Malone will just have to take them from here and e-mail them to everyone else. Carigs and Roger, you should also consider only announcing your keeper selections on www.therobsmith.com and ignoring Malone’s e-mail.
I haven’t been [...]

It’s suddenly gotten very hot here, the past 3 or 4 days it’s been above 90 degrees. According to my Army weather website it is 97 right now. Just a month ago it was nearly freezing, and I had to have the contractors come and fix the heat in my room because it wasn’t blowing [...]

I’m working on wrapping up or turning over a lot of projects before I go on leave so I’ve been fairly busy lately. Now that the elections are over, our main effort will become planning for how we’re going to hand over our mission to another unit and how we’re going to go about moving [...]

Malone I meant that we should think about replacing a certain one of our existing owners. Maybe we could agree to give the new owner a supplemental draft pick or something. Also, India and the Middle East are definitely parts of Asia. People from India, or Iraq, or Central-Western Russia aren’t your typical “Asians”, like [...]