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Did anyone watch Michael Phelps and the rest of the Olympic swimming team last night handle their business? USA is on a tear in the Olympics and now have more medals than any other country.

But the one that excites me the most of course is the Men’s soccer team having a chance to advance from a round where nobody thought they had a chance. And what a BS call against Stuart Holden in injury time to let Holland get the equalizer on Sunday, I was screaming at my television at 7am waking up the neighbors. Dissapointing since we could have advanced with the win.

So now we need to get at least a tie against Nigeria and we will be without Freddy Adu (who was on FIRE againt Holland) and Michael Bradley (who has been dissapointing dating back to the friendlies against Spain, England, and Argentina… he seems to be a standout in the dutch league because the pace of play is slower, not so sure he’s ready for the EPL). So here is the formation I think Nowak will field:

—————Guzan———-

–Wynne—–Parkhurst–Edu——–Orozco

Rogers—Klejstan—-Holden—–Szetela–

———-Altidore—Mchead———-

Hopefully Mcbride can step his game up and Altidore can show what he’s amde of as well. Jozy might not be 100% but sometimes you have to suck it up. Orozco has been dissapointing as of late and Wynne has completely outplayed him on the other side. I am hoping for a big game from him, he played well in qualifyers and is capable of a lot more.

I am also really looking forward to lunch with the Microsoft folks later this week. Hopefully I’ll have enough energy after waking up at the buttcrack of dawn tomorrow morning to see our boys advance to the next round. USA!!

So this is kind of crazy. I don’t know if you guys have been following the comments over on my post here but a couple people from Microsoft have contacted me because of this blog! Apparently they’ve been following my posts about my tech troubles at work and through their commenting have offered some helpful solutions. In particular like their free online training site which includes training videos. Pretty helpful stuff. I really didn’t expect Microsoft of all companies to reach out like that. I guess they figure it’d be good PR for them or something. But, what I REALLY didn’t expect was their offer to take my buddy Josh and I out to lunch and give us a private tour of their office in Irvine! Kinda badass right? Needless to say I’m pretty excited about it.

The first guy that contact me (Edwin) left a bunch of info about online training resources for MS products and the other guy (Sam) reached out and asked us to come visit him at their Irvine offices. Which works out well since Josh and I are in LA. We’re going to go over there at around noon next Thursday. Initially wanted to do it on Friday but I guess Sam surfs and reserves Fridays for sessions at Salt Creek in Dana Point. He said that if we wanted to we could join him which I thought was really nice of him to offer.

Anyway, should be an interesting trip and hopefully bring some resolution to my tech problems at work. Maybe this could lead to a real job!

I’m sitting here bored at work doing more busy work, so I decided to make this post. Here are the top 5 hottest women soccer players in my opinion:

5. Natasha Kai

True or false: she would probably whoop me in a fight:

True.

But she has style, and I’m a sucker for tats. Orange Mercurials with the MATCHING HEADBAND? Hot. But Natasha, please

Don’t mix and match any more!

4. Tina DiMartino

I’ve seen her in person and can’t really find any pics that do her justice, but here are two that come somewhat close:

3. Leslie Osbourne

Leslie is obviously very flexible and passionate.

Here is a pic of her out of her work clothes last year at the Women’s World Cup.

2. Heather Mitts

That’s right. I have her 2nd, and I’m sure I’ll catch some grief over it. But I’ll get over it. Heather, if you’re reading this, I can make it up to you. Dinner and a walk on the beach? Or maybe a kick around?

1. Hope Solo

I only need 1 pic. With a long sleeve gk jersey on. She. is. HAWT.

Agree with my choices? Disagree?

Is it Friday yet? Seriously. I am already sick of this job, why couldn’t I have gotten an internship somewhere cool where I could be outside all day instead of in front of a stupid PC?

Okay so I’ve been reading a lot about how people hate the DRM setup in Vista. I would love to agree but… what the heck does it mean??

Some people are saying they can’t play videos they payed for on Netflix, can’t record American Gladiators, and can’t play their video games fast enough.

I went to Wikipedia to try to find out more and my head is still spinning.

Apparently, for most media types in Vista you have to own the rights to play them. I guess this is a good thing? I guess it’s good if DRM limits piracy (not really actually, if I can’t burn my copy of the Kim Kardashian video(s) so I can watch them on my flatscreen! BASTARDS!), but if this is why Vista runs so slow at work and my boss is always bitching about not getting work done on time then can I just get rid of it?

Okay so apparently Dominic Cervi’s trial with Portsmouth has ended and he wasn’t offered a contract. Shocker.

His only claim to fame right now is that he had a tial with Celtic. He refuses to sign with an MLS club after Chicago drafted his rights and apparently thinks he can just jump straight to Europe without putting any time in.

Hey dude, guess what. You’ve made 0 caps and only 2 u-23 appearances. You were second-team All-American. Put your time in at Chicago and grow up. Summer’s almost over and just because you’re 6′6″ doesn’t mean you’re the next “big” thing.

This is a problem in America right now, guys aren’t willing to put in the work at MLS or USL for 2 or 3 years because the pay is crap and think they can just jump overseas. Goalkeepers dont even hit their prime until 26-27 so what’s the hurry??

What an awesome weekend. Met up with some friends who I haven’t seen in forever, took a lot of shots, went to a cool show on Sunday and, as predicted, spent almost my entire two weeks pay in 2 days. Oh well, looks like I’ll be eating PBJ until next Friday.

I did decide to come in early this morning and try to tackle all of the issues I’m having with Vista so I can try to be more productive. I think I was able to figure out one of the big ones. Know those stupid “Windows needs your permission to continue” popup windows that come up every time you want to do something? Right after that scary 2 second black screen that makes you think the computer crashed all of a sudden? Like this one:

Apparently this is called User Account Control. It’s new in Vista. So now that I’ve finally figured out what it is, how do I turn it off??

It’s Friday, I aint got no job, I aint got sh… to do…

Oh wait, I do have a job. Damn. Oh well, at least today was another payday. I woke up to a replenished bank account, and please believe it will all be gone by the end of the weekend.

I stayed until 7 o’clock last night finishing that stupid project for my boss, and he wasn’t too impressed. “Bout time” was his response when I finally e-mailed it to him, which took me like 45 extra minutes because I had to go through and re-install Outlook. Oh Microsoft, can you make my job any more difficult?

He said he’ll have something new for me to work on today, and to just answer e-mails and make myself look busy until then.

So for the time being, did anyone catch the MLS all-star game last night? West Ham thinks they’ll challenge for a place in Europe this season, but they can’t keep Blanco’s fat ass from scoring? Scott Parker got used and abused on that goal, and Blanco looked like he was moving in slow motion.

How lazy has David Beckham become since he moved here? He just stands around and calls for the ball, and serves a few long balls and crosses. I think the fastest I saw him run was when he ran over to take free kicks and corners. I would like to see the amount of distance he covers every match, it’s probably close to 20 feet.

Dwayne De rosario played well also in front of his fellow Canadians, eh. Here’s a throwback pic of when he was at Richmond Kickers:

Hair for days.

I’m curious to see where Kenny Cooper ends up, but after listening to his interview, it sounds like he’ll be in Norway along with Clarence Goodson and Troy Perkins (and I think I’m forgetting someone? Ramiro Corrales was over at Bran but now he’s back in San Jose. Someone who moved from New England but isn’t doing so well, who the hell is it?). Even Edson Buddle has been rumored to be off to Norway; what a joke of a league MLS is turning into when guys would rather play in NORWAY than their own country.

Oh well, I’m going to monitor Yanks Abroad and other news sites for updates all day while my boss finds some busy work for me.

Okay so it’s pretty obvious that I’m new to this whole Vista thing (I miss and used to LOVE XP). I’m trying to get this project done and I’m spending more time looking through folders trying to find files that I saved than I am doing the actual work. Is it really necessary to have a “Downloads”, “Documents”, “Pictures”, and all of these other folders? Why not just a “My Documents” like previous Windows versions?? Stupid lack of Windows orginizational skills, I feel like I’m trying to arrange my dorm room.

You would think it would just be easy for me to tell my boss that this PC is a hunk of crap and I would like to downgrade to XP, but then he’ll probably find out that I’ve been looking at pictures of that hot pole vaulter from Cal every fifteen minutes and fire me. Allison Stokke.

In other news, I better not get too hungover for the Gnarls Barkley, Youssou N’Dour, and Deerhoof at Hollywood Bowl on Sunday. Who remembers this Cee-Lo video before he and Danger Mouse? He’s on some other ish.

I came in to start my PC, and as SOON as Vista started I got this (this isn’t the actual screenshot but it’s the same error message I got):

and I had to restart.

I ended up doing nothing yesterday but play on Youtube all day and read up on West Ham to get ready for tonight’s All-Star game, and now my boss needs that Excel spreadsheet by end of business today. Hopefully this POS PC decides to cooperate with me and I can actually focus on my work for a few hours, I dont want my boss screaming at me first thing on a Friday morning.

Does anybody know any free programs I can install to see if there is something slowing up and causing problems with my PC? A friend of mine mentioned something about spyware?

Okay for those of you that don’t know, I’m a huge soccer supporter. With the season in England being done for now and my favorite team, Manchester United, heading into preseason, I’ve started following the MLS more. One player here in LA, Landon Donovan, has been linked to be interested in heading to England.

Kind of interesting considering the only time Landycakes plays worth a damn is when he is in meaningless MLS games. He played pretty well this weekend in New York and maybe he is stepping his game up to make some teams interested. I doubt it though, he was a pansy ass when he was at Bayern Leverkusen and got homesick of his girlfriend, dogs, and mom.

That, and given the fact that he never scores in menaingful games (he’s the US leading goalscorer because he plays in every match and takes almost every penalty kick) and I’m not sure he’s got the balls to make a move. But, what do I know? I wanted to see what the soccer fans out there thought about this, so here’s a poll I put together inbetween this busy work my boss gave me and reading Bigsoccer and Yanks Abroad about the Olynpic team selection.