focuspoint is alive! My band, focuspoint, is playing a show this Saturday. Here's the details:
Who: focuspoint
When: Saturday, May 24, 8 p.m.
Where: Shakabrah Java
Address: 2618 6th Ave, Tacoma, WA 98406
Cost: Free!
Today, I have a dentist appointment for a cleaning.
It's the one day when I actually brush my teeth after every meal or snack and actually floss - although I tell the dental hygienist otherwise. Of course, I brush my teeth every morning and every night, but that just doesn't seem good enough on appointment day. The expectations are high.
I feel like I'm cramming for a mid-term here - doing any last minute thing I can to improve my score. I'm off. Wish me luck.
*Update: No cavities. Clean bill of health.
Dental hygienist: "Your teeth look amazing."
Me: "I brush them from time to time."
I'm picking up some extra hours at work today and covering part of a shift for a collegue who is out sick. All I have to say is that I strongly advise against starting work at 5 a.m. I believe waking up for work at 4 a.m. falls somewhere under the definition of "cruel and unusual punishment."
Whatcom Transit Authority now offers "GO Lines," servicing WTA's four highest-ridership routes every 15 minutes. The GO Line bus routes and buses are identified by color: blue, green, gold and red.
This makes me wonder: How will color blind people be able to know which bus to catch? I believe WTA forgot to study a certain demographic before launching this campaign.
Italy 1 - USA 1
Obviously, I was disappointed that Italy didn't crush USA.
In the first half, Italy took the lead early in the game with a goal from a header by Alberto Gilardino, but, shortly thereafter, Italy's Cristian Zaccardo mishit a ball into his own net to tie the game. Zaccardo can expect to have his balls chopped off when he returns to Italy. Before the end of the first half, two Americans and one Italian received red cards - thus drastically changing the game's dynamics for the second half.
Playing against a team down a man for 50+ minutes, Italy should have been able to convert some goals but couldn't.
At least we can say that USA didn't score a goal themselves against the Azzurri. As Dad says, "We have to score goals for them!"
The story of the game: Officiating was horrible at best. Italy's Andera Pirlo was robbed of a goal on a bad offsides call, and the US's Eddie Pope shouldn't have received a red card for a soft foul.
Here's what the players had to say about the game:
"It was a very strange match. It’s obviously disappointing to only draw when you have ten men against nine for the whole of the second half." - Angelo Peruzzi
"It was a hard game tonight; we ran our socks off. I’m not interested in the results of other teams, we play to win... We created a few chances but we didn’t manage to score." - Andrea Pirlo