The weekend's games

First of all, welcome Italy of course. 

YAY

In other news and moving past weekend even well done Netherlands. While Spain has been impressive in the last years, we are all ready to see somebody win. The tricky thing if you don't want Spain to lose as much as somebody else to win. The Netherlands did that.

Costa Rica caused an upset with Uruguay. 

Switzerland turned out to be one of the big revelations of the weekend. They tend to play quite slowly, they hold the ball back in generally seem quite neutral about who should win the game. Sunday about halfway through the  woke up and started pushing towards goal. And it paid off. Then won and they won well.

I couldn't watch France vs Honduras of course, which France won, of course. And Argentina versus Bosnia gave us some good moments as well. You can't help but cheer internally for the Bosnian side, first time in the world.

Today already seen Germany shame Portugal, and I'm looking forward to the USA-Ghana this evening, even just the first half that I will be able to watch. 

Airport

I am on my way to a conference where I am exhibiting in a trade show. Monday I was all on schedule and ready to go. In the last 48 hours it has resulted that I have no monitor for display, which doesn't matter since I have no wifi, and all my marketing materials are held at customs. Last night I slept almost not at all, and today am not in peak travel condition.

Arrived at the airport I printed out my boarding pass (no data where I am going, back to paper), and saw something magical: TSA PRE-CHECK. It was beautiful. Everything will be alright.

The saddest sentence you will read this week (BSBTE)

Re-posting form Rebecca’s personal blog:

“Prison was the first time in her life she had experienced reasonably consistent and decent treatment”

From the article Some to Misery Are Born.

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Chocolate chip espresso ice cream

People helping people (BSBTE)

Paraphrasing Penn Teller: “When somebody tells me 1 out of every 5 people lives in poverty, I think that poor person has a whole 4 people to help him out. That’s good.”

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Angel Oak

A few weeks ago we went back to Charleston to house sit.

We went to see Angel Oak Tree.

It looks like this:

Sic transit gloria mundi

Blogging shall resume soon (I have, as always, so much to say).

For today, I leave you with selected loud whispers of Emily Dickinson reflecting upon her education.

A coward will remain, Sir,

Until the fight is done;

But an immortal hero

Will take his hat, and run!