Watched the World Cup consolation game this afternoon. Germany and Uruguay, two of the teams I’m less interested in, play in what is typically the most interesting game of the tournament. There’s less of a concession to strategy in the consolation game for obvious reasons. The battle for third place was not stuck at midfield. In fact, after the first few minutes the ball seldom lingered there.
Germany won, 3-2, but Uruguay, true to form made it a mystery until the very last kick. They could have tied it at the whistle, but the last freekick smacked the crossbar, and everyone was sent home from the rainy game.
Tomorrow’s game, the final, probably won’t be quite so entertaining. Both Spain and Netherlands are saying otherwise and we’d all like it if that comes to pass. Don’t be surprised if that isn’t the case.
Forgot to mention the estate sale story from yesterday. The woman was selling everything, house, contents and all. I talked the briefest little bit with her husband. The Yankee, talking with the woman, learned that her first husband had died and she later remarried. They have a home together in Atlanta and she was trying to get everything out of Birmingham.
She said she was having a real estate sale, having hired a company that does that type of work. But, she had fears that they wouldn’t take the job for all of her things. She once owned a used book store, you see — hence the massive collection — and she was now having an everything-must-go sale before she had the estate sale.
Big day at the gym. The Yankee gave me a new work out regimen to try. So I did legs and then back and then road 20 miles on the bike. I watched the rain fall. I watched the sun come blaze down into an excessively humid afternoon. I did not see a rainbow.
After that, the store, home, dinner, brownies, a lot of stretching and groaning from the gym and now this.
Site stuff: I’ve added a new page to the side of the blog after I updated the banners. I’ve been wanting to do this for a while, and if I’d thought to do it from the beginning of this style I’d have a comprehensive list. But I think I have a big chunk of the photos that have graced the top and bottoms of the blog. This page will no doubt be more for me than you — but that’s probably always the case. If you’re interested, though, you can see a lot of old familiar scenes, with a little note for each image, on the new banners page.
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Tomorrow: The World Cup final and other adventures.
