It's Friday! I intend to keep my boycott of posting anything related to the world cup other than stating this: Soccer is still a B.S. game and no matter how much you get your hopes up, you'll end up getting screwed over in the end. End of story.

I'm already going through hockey withdrawl...ahh well, October is only 3 months away. Kinda makes you think though...damm hockey season is really long and they STILL complain about the schedule...what ever happend to playing less games?

Work is DEAD right now. We're talking 2 world cup games a day and 2 hours of reading British newspapers. Yeah, the guardian does have decent coverage (and I am weary of any north american paper covering soccer since they only do it once every 4 years). Speaking of 4 years...guess who's blog is turning 4 years old soon??? Has it been that long? The answer is yes, and a big FU to all the people (nobody) who said my blog wouldn't last more than a month! And an even bigger FU to any blogs that have come and gone in between. And a big FU to anybody that's French (I don't need a reason).

Bah, Carolina beat Edmonton...the summer is a write off. Had Edmonton kept up the physical play that brought them to game 7 of the cup, they would have won for sure. Why they didn't come out swinging is beyond me. Watching that game 7 made me realize just how more exciting hockey is than any other sport (in my opinion). I would love to see a world cup final come close to the energy level those players had for 60 minutes. I don't think any sport can match up with that. And I know I knock on the Carolina fans a lot, but I'm going to give them credit. They were on their feet making noise the whole game. Not to mention singing the national anthems of both countries pretty loud (just nowhere close to Edmonton loud...I hope this is a trend that catches on). Whoever sang the anthem in Carolina was pretty hot, although it was funny to hear the crowd jump ahead of her on the Canadian anthem and then struggle to wait for her to catch up. Damm she was hot...and since when did they have cheerleaders in hockey??? Heres to hoping the world cup will be good (which it won't) and Italy won't get screwed (which they will). I can do without soccer as long as I have hockey and game 7 last night made me realize why.

For a change I was allowed to visit another division today to do some work for them. Nothing special, just migrating 3 accounts over. I told the resident IT admin what I was doing AFTER I was finished (this way no politics would get in my way). All 3 world cup games suck today and don't get me started on the Italy game from Saturday. There were crooked refs in the Brazil-Australia game yesterday, which only reinforces my point that soccer is not a real sport, that's why fighting is not allowed. It's hot outside, but I finally rememberd to spray lysol into my air intake...ahhh clean air now, and no more of that fungus smell! Damm, this afternoon is going to drag on.

Another day brings another post...it's soooo slow here at work, but at least my blog is seeing activity again...although I think all my readers have spontaneously combusted. I'm trying to find work to do here, but as of now, no luck. Not like anybody will give me anything to do, and I'm not dumb enough to ask for work. I guess with all this extra time I might be able to proof read my blog, but that goes against everything I believe in. At least it's sunny outside so when I go for my walk at lunch I can enjoy it. Speaking of lunch, I've got left over porchetta on top of baby romanie leaves with greek dressing and some cantelope for desert.

I had a bbq on saturday...thank god nobody saw how high the flames got when the burgers started dripping...there would have been serious trouble

I've been playing around with AJAX a bit, and I'm pretty impressed. I've made my own portal for the company (things are really slow here...I need something to do) and I'm taking on just about any programming job that comes my way here.

That TVU player rocks! The live world cup streaming has kept my sanity over the past few days. GO ITALY!

I really like the new layout of my webpage, but I think I've already mentioned that before. Worldcup seems to be pretty good. I've found a nice site with world cup 2006 streaming video!!!! Ok...it's about 5 minutes behind the TSN feed, but it's good enough when you're at work. Quality is good too. You may need the player

I like the new layout here...looks fresh. The old needed to be retired (espically since most of the links didn't work and I never bothered to fix the CSTcrew pictures). Ahh well...the first two people to IM me get their links on the sidebar.

Gonna test this out once again.

What do you think of the new layout? It's a blogger template, so I might change it in the future, but I like it. Comments to come soon too.

It's such a nice day outside, why the fuck am I at work?? Ahh well, I'm not going to complain, at least I've got a good view of the airport from my desk (ok, my back is to the window, but you get the idea). You ever realize how when girls cut their hair short it adds AT LEAST 5 years to their estimated age??? We have two girls here that recently cut their hair short, and I swear...they went from looking in their mid 20's to early 30's overnight...not cool at all

I'm writing more reports at work. Whoever invented Unidata and Trans4M should be shot. Hey guys, lets make our database ODBC complient, but simple things like using max in a group by function won't work for dates unless you multiply your date by 1....WHO THE FUCK MULTIPLIES DATES BY 1 TO GET A RESULT IN A GROUP BY FUNCTION???? Never mind that ANY SQL querey builder won't work with Unidata, as unidata has it's own (undocumented) formats and (documented) formats that just spit out errors. Gotta love that shit!!!

Reporting services is a great tool...but it has it's faults like anything else.

Did I mention Trans4M sucks?