Erin's Influence

I'm not a football fan, but I spent some time with Erin, who certainly had some kind of affect on me. I decided to watch the final so that I could honour the passtime we spent much of the holiday watching and discussing. However - not being familiar with Kiana's television set up, and ESPN deciding to stop covering the World Cup as it kicked off, and instead repeat the World Eating Championships, which would be the third time I have seen that - I had difficulty watching it. Scanning through hundereds of channels, trying to find some kind of football, there was none. ESPNews had minor photographic updates, and the interactive channel's sport page only had NFL, NBA, NHL, WNBA, MLB and a whole ton of sports that don't really exist outside America. Thanks to spending time with Erin, a rudimentary understanding of Spanish allowed me to spot "Copa Mundial 2006", and I proceeded to watch Spanish language World Cup Final. I turned on 10 minutes in, so I missed the penalty, and I went to do washing while the next goal was scored, so almost all of what I watched was fruitless batting the ball between ends and the disallowed goal. Not to say it wasn't exciting (not that exciting), but the ending was a long time off, and could have come sooner.

But I watched it. I watched it for the memory of Erin and Yukina.

I'm not online right now, I'm writing this on my laptop so that I can minimise the time I spend on Kiana's dial up. I have reached my upload limit on Flickr for the month, which is hugely tragic and upsetting. I'm considering the Pro upgrade so I can put a load more of my pictures there. But that would require money and I like the conservation of money right now.

Leeching off Charlie's wireless allowed me to get another episode of Arrested Development downloaded, and some more of Tokyo Drift. It needs a few more hours to get what I need. I had to delete An American Haunting without watching it just for space. I filled my entire laptop since I've been here. I think it's 20GB. Shocking.

I am extremely annoyed at CM. He has completely let me down. He hasn't called, he hasn't let me call him. I really needed some kind of participation from him if we were to meet, and I'm quite stuck without him. If you're reading and are, or have contact with, CM... call me. I need to speak to you quickly, I don't know how much longer you're nearby.

All the Lion King songs and parodies have led me to obtain a copy of the Lion King from Charlie, which I am about to watch with Kiana. Squashed banana.

I spoke with my family, sans Becky, last night. It had been a few days and I have missed speaking with them. I hope Becky has replied to me, and I hope things are good with her. They will have finished watching the World Cup now, and will be sleeping as I type this.

I don't have much more to say, We;re probably not going to Monterey today, so we will be all rested for if/when we go on Monday. I will give Kiana a proper clutch lesson though.