Battle of the Titans

I can hardly contain myself.... it is now 2:33 into the first half of the Portugal-France World Cup match up [click here for a Matchcast and play-by-play]. It is also a little over 3 weeks, 2 days, and 11 hours (give or take) until I take off to jolly old Europe with my lover - the Kiwi - for a few weeks of vacationing and fun in the sunny old country - i.e. Amsterdam-Milan-Vienna and then back to Toronto via... New Yawk City baby!!!!

It's going to be a blast and I pretty much log onto TripAdvisor about 80 times a day to determine where the best spot is to stay in the 'Dam, and what to expect in Vienna? Speaking of Beethoven's former crib, check out these amazing Flickr streams of Viennese landmarks....

I also may be getting a promotion at work, at the Really-Really Big Canadian Broadcaster (full of Really-really Good Looking People), which could mean that I might soon be able to afford a proper notebook computer to post more than once a blue moon! Yessssss, and here comes the sun outside my cubicle window.... whoo-hoo, it's gonna be a bright, sunshiney day :)

* Further posting to come after 4:00 p.m. EDT, when the nail-biting football game has ended. I will either be toasting the French fries with a nice Bordeaux tonight, or it'll be some bacalhau and vinho verde picked up on the way home (salted cod and Portugese wine for the uninitiated)....

Okay, so I'm back and I must say, I FEEL for the Portugese.

Their loss was heartbreaking, their goalie stellar, but in the end they were felled by a brilliant (but somewhat innocuous) penalty shot by the equally brilliant Zidane.

I can't WAIT for the finals!!!! It's going to be a cracking good game between les Bleus and the.... Blues (Azzurri) on Sunday. Even the consolation match between Germany and Portugal is shaping up to be a good one [Source]!

Oh, and a quick note that I need your help determining a theme for this Bloggety blog blog, of which I've been told by the Kiwi, is sadly lacking. I guess random posts about technology, sports, and the history of music isn't a very unifying structure..... so I promise to have something neat and nicely stitched together by the time I get back from vacation / get my new Laptop, whichever comes first....... so MY CANADIAN TUXEDO OVERHAUL TO COME. DO STAY TUNED!