| it was a very busy weekend for me for a change. saturday was spent unsuccesfully working on my friend's truck to figure out what was wrong with it. after reseating every electronic module we could find, we decided to give up when all our attempts failed. called the tow truck and hoped that the mechanic was gonna take pity on us. 5 hours later and the truck was back in his hands again. the stupid truck had a dirty sensor which confused the onboard computer into not wanting to work properly. final price for my friend, including towing... $225. not so bad. the bad news is that if the sensor malfunctions again, replacement cost is $403. ouch! thats why i prefer low tech vehicles. haha. while waiting on the truck to be repaired i watched a full days worth of sports. watched some women's golfing which was pretty interesting. the women were pretty good but most of them were kinda boxy looking. haha my bad. afterwards i watched the wimbledon's double championship which was won by the american twins. the rest of the night was spent watching some movies, which i'll review at a later time. earlier today i watched the wimbledon singles champaionship, federer against nadal. nadal kind of annoys me with all the grunting that he does and other on court antics. federer showed alot of reserve and class and i'm really glad he finally beat nadal this year. all in all i have to say it was a great match. ok now for the big one. world cup finals, italy vs. france. it was a very hard fought game with the french outplaying the italians but it was still 1 - 1 going into overtime. i dislike the french but Zinedine Zidane was a sentimental favorite of mine. he is the captain of the french team. throughout the tournament he's shown so much class, until tonight. in the 107th min. of the game after exchanging words with Marco Materazzi, Zidane turned around and gave a vicious head butt to the chest of Materazzi. the refs didnt see it but after the scene was replayed over and over again, a ref came forward and gave a red card to Zidane. this is Zidane's final world cup and he had played brilliantly until now. a fantastic career defined by an act of such poor sportsmanship. i guess he was so ashamed that he didnt even participate in the final ceremony. such a pity he had to go out that way. well no one scored in extra time so they had to go into penalty shoot out. the italians pulled it together and hit all 5 goals. the french had one ball that hit the edge of the goal and bounced out. it was an extremely exciting finish. watching the joy and exuberation on the faces of the italians and u cant help but feel happy for them also. this will probably be the last you will hear me about sports for the next few months. i don't really watch baseball until the word series. gosh... the next few months without sports. how will i ever survive? guess i'll have to concentrate all of my attention on a very special person. wink wink. have a wonderful weekend everybody. |