Castle Shima

I only date stewardesses. Or maybe it just seems that way. Women always seem to be showing me the exits.
-- Scott Roeben

It was tough watching Team USA getting defeated by Ghana today. The two easy goals were backbreakers for sure, but the team kept fighting, kept scrapping. It took extra time before the team was shown the door.

No shame here. The blood, sweat, and tears were left on the field so I'm still proud of them. Now its time to get back to work and get back to the dream.

Running Down A Dream by Tom Petty


I still say Ghana has been taking flopping lessons from Italy, but thats just my opinion.

For those of you who don't know, I was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease a couple of weeks ago... I hate baseball. I'd really much rather have been diagnosed with a basketball disease. Maybe Wilt Chamberlain disease. That's the one where you have sex 20,000 times and then you die.
-- Carla Zilbersmith

I never met Carla Zilbersmith, the accomplished singer, teacher, and comedianne. I have never even heard of her until I ran across an entry on another blog (hat tip: The Daily What).

Zilbersmith was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease, better known as ALS, in 2007. Despite dying slowly, she kept living life as she wanted, the best she could. Trips, singing, and plays. She wrote her own blog Carla Muses and even starred in a documentary Leave Them Laughing: A Musical Comedy About Dying.

I'm going to have to get this movie when it becomes available.

Last month, Zilbersmith slipped into a coma and passed away. Before her death, she made this video that was to be played during her funeral. I'll be damned if she didn't make people laughing a priority.



Thank you for your humour and inspiration, Carla. We didnt get to meet, but its an honour to know you.

Anyone can cook aloo gobi, but who can bend a ball like Beckham?
-- Jess from Bend It Like Beckham



Its an exciting time for soccer fans with the World Cup going on for the next four weeks. There are have been some really excellent games so far and its only third day of the tournament. Its definately been worth the hype.



England's Rob Green will be hearing about his miscue for awhile, but as any player knows, it happens to all of us. Unfortunately for Green, it just happened during one of the biggest games ever.



At least he made an attempt to stop the ball, unlike Algeria's Fawzi Chaouchi, who watched the ball sail in. Hell, I could have done that. Maybe I can play for them! Ok, maybe not.

Japan doesn't play for a couple of days so I'll be anxious to catch that one. It will be hard as hell to try not to watch the games at work. Our network doesn't have that kind of bandwidth.

Maybe I should call in sick. For the next four weeks. Yeah, that's it. *cough cough* Hehe...

Ok, that wont happen either. I'll have to do what I can to catch as many games as possible. For now, lets play the official song for the event.

Waka Waka (This Time For Africa) by Shakira


Damn. In a few weeks, I'm going to have the same problem when the Tour de France starts.