Today looks like it will be the last day of nice weather.  Tomorrow will be back to the rain.  Tonight’s soccer game is White City v. Wolfenstein FC.  It should be an interesting match since we beat them in the pre-season so they will be out for revenge.  I hope we bring our A game and pull through.  We should all be well rested since we didn’t play on Monday, although that could be a bad thing since we aren’t all really in shape yet.  Monday’s game is now rescheduled for June 28, just for my information. I hope the sun comes back again soon since this rainy weather isn’t welcome.

All work and No play makes Matthew a dull boy.  With the soccer game cancelled last night, it is official, all I ever do it go to work.  Good thing work isn’t a bad place where the stuff that I’m doing sucks; sometimes I just want to have fun though.  This upcoming Friday, they have rescheduled the Greenall Soccer Alumni game so that should be interesting.  I will have to try and get out to that.  I am still hoping that I can get down to the states one of these days.  The dollar has continued to remain strong and is holding around 90 cents to 1 US Dollar.  Thats enough for me to get a deal, so I’m there.  The good thing is, I’d be able to get there and back in no time at all.  Since its basically just a bit further than Saskatoon from Regina.   So until then, hopefully some people will be able to help me fill my time and make life interesting.

Well the end of my constant working that is.  This Friday I’ll get an EDO (earned day off)  and finally get a nice break.  I probably don’t even need a break but I like to think I do.  Working two jobs like I am doing isn’t that difficult and it stills seems to leave me with plenty of time.  Well, I’m sure if I actually used my time I would want more, but for me right now, its good.  I just looked ahead to Tuesday’s new releases..  again I will be disappointed. I wonder when they will get back to good releases.  Maybe after summer, I can only hope.  I guess World Cup will have to tide me over till then.  I’m sure Sasktel must be getting angry with me right now. I have downloaded the first five games so far, and 3 of them have been 2.1gb each and the other 2 were 1.4gb each.  I’m also using bit torrent and I am the type of person who likes to share.  So my ratio is almost always above 1 to 1.  I wonder if I’ll be able to keep this up for all 64 games.

Our soccer match last night against Chile was not as good as I had imagined.  For some reason, even though we had one sub, we didn’t look as good as our team on Monday.  I think our problem for the first half was we tried to play too much defensive offside trap. This led them and us to making a lot of high speed runs back for the ball.  This team, although smaller than us, had speed, so all of those runs tired us out.  In the second half, we were down, but not out, we needed something to bring us back into the game.  We did make a valant effort, but we only started playing really good for the last 30 minutes or so.  We got really close, and if it wasn’t for their goalie making a couple of really good saves we would have easily tied or won.  Next game will be on Monday, June 12.

I am settling into my new office today.  I would much rather prefer the layout of the old one.  With the new one I is more cubicle type while my old one was kind of an open type.  With the new cubicle, it feels like I have less privacy and more pressure since everyone will be able to walk by and watch me.  I think I’m going to need some big plants to form a “mini wall” on my desk to block everyone out.  So this is going to be my new home.  I have heard rumours that there will be an even larger move to the College Avenue location.  If/When that takes place I don’t have any idea what I could expect.   I suppose I better start enjoying this move now because I’ll be here for another 7 months.

Today I am moving floors at work. I will be going from the 11th floor up to the 14th floor. Although, I am fairly certain it is actually the 13th floor relabelled.. Must be some supersticious engineer at work. I think it is actually fairly common to skip the labelling of the 13th floor on buildings.  Wish me luck, cause I could very well need it.  (to counter-act all the bad luck associated with 13)

Tonight, I will be at my second game against Chile FC.  We tied the last game on Monday and I’m sure we will be in for another battle tonight.  Their team is just so much smaller than our team it makes us look huge.  In other news, the World Cup is starting on Friday and will continue on for a month.  That should make life in the office a little bit more interesting as we dedicate ourselves to our work with a constant eye out on the football matches.  This year, Sportsnet and TSN will be televising every game from the world cup.  Too bad I’ll be at work and unable to watch the games lives.  It should be good times.