I was just flicking channels tonight and caught the second half of USA vs. Mexico world cup qualifier. Deep on the cable, unfortunately, USA won and qualified for Germany with three games left. Also blows my mind that the regional which includes north, central America and the Caribbean has tw0 of the top 6 ranked teams in the world, USA (6) and Mexico (5)……along time ago I played small college soccer………..sorry but it’s football ever where but North America………..I love the game……….I was never fast but through hard work and total insanity in the way I played was a decent center midfielder, at a small college level, it’s a beautiful game.

Had a frustrating early part of the day, needed a controller for my PC. Only have one game that uses a controller, finally found one after an hour + and 5 stores and then couldn’t get my PC to see it. Need the ME disc, which I can’t find and assume disappeared with my wife when she took off, although I can’t figure why she would have taken it because her machine ran XP. Other then just being vindictive………but that’s another story………..

The rest of the day has been quiet and uneventful…….

Made ground beef pasta tonight for dinner, which could easily double as a batch of barbecue beef, as usually did a lousy job of matching the amount of pasta to the amount of sauce, this time way to much sauce for too little pasta………..rats…….but the sauce is off the wall……….

Not a bad Sunday is before me, we are canceling evening service because of the long weekend, so just the typical 3.5 hours for the two morning services and I’m done………don’t get me wrong I love what I do every Sunday………but at times it is exhausting……….and starting in October I have a 2.5 hour rehearsal ever Sunday afternoon for north country choral……….which I am addicted to………but it makes for probably the busiest and most exhausting day of the week……….and I wouldn’t miss this season for the world……….lately NNC has been doing more contemporary music………..in fact in honor of our 50^th year we commissioned a work last year by Paul Halley………an awesome piece of music and the first time in my 52 years of performing choral music that I have ever been part of a world premier……….but we are going back to our roots and doing the Christmas messiah……….and that’s why I sing choral music……..