Sunday, Aug. 09, 2009 - 20:44

It's been warm today! I've not worn a shirt all weekend, it seems. This is more to do with the fact I've been mostly rester a la maison, but it has been to do with the weather too.

1. Ouch. My calves are tight. No, that isn't a reference to my bovine paedophile tendencies, but to the muscles on the backs of my legs.

2. The Community Shield (pah - it'll always be the Charity Shield to me!) ended 2-2 in normal time, and it sounded like it was a pretty good game between the usual suspects of Chelsea and Man United. Chelsea won on penalties.

3. My last seven games of chess online have produced seven wins - three 'on time' and four by checkmate of my opponant. There's actually been nineteen wins out of the last twenty, though admittedly I'm only playing fairly crap players.

4. I was shocked to hear of another footballer dying of a heart problem whilst young and seemingly at the peak of his career. Dani Jarque joins Antonio Puerta, Phil O'Donnell, Marc Vivien Foe and Miklós Fehér in recent times. Sad news, and it seems more frequent than you'd think.

5. Isn't 'abacinate' a nice word? I have to say that Slayer hit the nail on the head (or poured the red hot metal in the eye of) with the use of this term in 'Angel of Death' (i.e. "Smell your death as it burns, deep inside of you. Abacinate, eyes thatbleed, praying for the end of your wide awake nightmare").

6. The Foibe killings refers to the killings that took place mainly in Istria during and shortly after World War II from 1943 to 1949, perpetrated mainly by the Yugoslav Partisans. This term includes by extension killings in other subterranean formations, such as the Basovizza 'foiba', which is not a true foiba but a mine shaft. The name derives from a local geological feature, a type of deep karst sinkhole called a foiba.

7. Certainly in vain, but the England tail-enders had a real go this morning. Broad and Swann shared a partnership of 108 runs off 78 balls (in 65 minutes) - including 16 fours. Broad perished for 61 from 47 with ten fours. At one point, they got 73 from five overs!

8. In the end, despite Swann getting 62 and taking England past the hundred deficit (and past lunch!), the Aussies were deserved winners. England reached 263 all out (a lot better than 86/6 or 120/7) and lost by an innings and eighty runs. Roll on the final test decider in a week and a half!

9. Got bored of playing FIFA07 for umpteen hours a day, and am now again playing baseball on the ol' xbox. Which is pretty time consuming and tedious.

10. Read in the paper last week about Dr Christian Jesson from 'Embarassing Illnesses' being a famous and successful 'openly gay' TV doctor. This made me think, because firstly I didn't guess he was gay (and my gaydar is reasonably good, I thought). Secondly, I was thinking about the validity of the label 'openly gay' - does it really matter whether someone is openly gay or not? I suppose so, but it would be ideal if whether someone was frank about stuff like that didn't affect them succeeding. Hmm...

LISTENING TO:- I've loaded my iPod for the coming week. With nine-hundred tunes which are not yet played. I'm positively priapic with the propect of it all..