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Tag Archives: soccer
World Cup World Cup World Cup
I am pretty much watching a game before work and a game after work. This first round is really sucking up every second of my spare time. Last night there was a bridge lift so I didn’t get home until 7pm. Then I had a tape of Sweden v. Argentina to watch (aiee! I can’t believe Argentina is going home, I am so bummed) plus I had to eat and it’s been hotter than hot so I had to water the yard — and cram all this in and then to bed early so I could get up at 4:30a to watch the Italy v. Mexico game. This is a fulltime job.
Meanwhile check out this really cool book read and release program.
Disconnect
Where have I been? A little low energy this week, we don’t need to go into that, but then the World Cup started so I’ve been caught up in that. I have been taping usually 2 games a night and I’m already behind but, you know, the weekend is coming. I feel like I am disconnected from everyone. Also I had a completely aggravating situation related to work which leads me to ask: does anyone care about doing a good job anymore? In this case “anyone” being a person employed by a government entity? Do people want to be helpful and competent? Because if they do, I’ve never met them. But aside from all that, things are decent. I got a shave ice (watermelon and green apple) at the Rose Festival yesterday and then a 25 ¢ foot massage — which is this plastic easy chair where you put in a quarter and set your feet on this metal platform and it vibrates like a jack hammer for a couple of minutes. I wouldn’t call it relaxing. I, of course, wondered if anyone would mind if I sat on it.
Meanwhile, read this hilarious story: Star Wars II Cereal: General Mills Gets It All Wrong. My favorite quote: “I realize it’s not always easy to produce a reasonable facsimile of a person or object when you’re reducing them to a tiny morsel of corn starch and gelatin, but it doesn’t look like General Mills was even trying.”
Timbers
Tonight we went to a Portland Timbers Game. It was so fun (It was also $1 beer night). They’ve renovated the park and I was only there once before for a women’s World Cup game but I guess it’s more earthquake safe now and lots of other nice amenities. I note that there are lots of women’s restrooms. Timbers won. I’m ready for more stuff at PGE park.
