I'm not allowed to do any more work.

So my goals for the next several days are to edit photographs and watch World Cup. The above is what happens when I try to do either one of those things for very long. The Yankee says that Allie likes me more than she likes her, but in truth it is just because I sit still more. Also, this cat loves walking on your keyboard.

Pictures. Lots of pictures. Started watching the World Cup, South Africa playing well to tie Mexico and France struggling to the same result against Uruguay. Funny how ties are perceived differently for each team. I’ll see all 64 World Cup games this year, just living the dream.

Speaking of living the dream, I had the great pleasure of sharing lunch with two wonderful ladies today. The Yankee and I joined our dear friend RaDonna at O’Carrs — try the chicken salad and fruit plate.

I met RaDonna while working with her husband, Justin, at al.com. He left to go to the Gadsden paper and is now the multimedia director at The Anniston Star. They are the sweetest people you could hope to know, and their son is the coolest boy I know, but they live too far away.  Visits with such good people shouldn’t be so rare.

There are now 233 photos on the site from our honeymoon. I suspect I might be about halfway through the project. On the one hand it is incredible to see the pictures again and think “Hey, we’ve just been there.” On the other hand I’m ready for a break from editing photographs.

Sick of hearing about it yet?

Simple, quiet, Pie Day for two tonight. Felt like we haven’t been to Jim N Nicks in ages. Mostly because we haven’t been in ages. For a weekly ritual the last two or three weeks have been our biggest absence in the almost six-year-old tradition.

Happily, Ward still recognized us.

Tomorrow, the US kicks off their World Cup run against England.