June 24, 2014

At work today I finished writing the letters of the alphabet many times and moved on to writing “the quick red fox jumps over the lazy brown dog”, over and over and over again. I'm not entirely comfortable with all the letters yet but I wanted the context of the sentence so I can work on writing the letters in the right size relative to all the other letters. I started off all over the place but as I went along I got better and the last sentence I wrote today was a vast improvement over the first. My struggle at the moment is wanting to write really small, which is how I normally write, and I can do that with my left hand if I write letters in my usual way, but with my font it is hard to write small with all the little lines on the letters. I might change more letters as I got along but today I decided to go with a different style for the lowercase 'g', so it looks more like that instead of the one with a circle and a left-curving line coming down from it. I'm still working on figuring out how to write it but I'm getting there.

I finished reading Hitchcock and Bradbury Fistfight in Heaven today, which is one of the short story collections from McSweeney's. I question the short moniker attributed to some of the stories but for the most part I enjoyed the collection. That makes three books done this summer. I've lost track of how many weeks there have been so far but I know I have fallen behind on my goal to read a book a week. I'm getting ever closer to finishing the other books I've got started now so I'm hoping I'll catch up by the end of the summer. I should figure out how many weeks there actually are and then plan my books accordingly. Maybe later.

Tonight I continued with Ruby, watched YouTube Videos and World Cup games, and clicked around the internet. In the Colombia v. Japan game I wanted Japan to win but they got destroyed. Near the end of the game Colombia was up 3 to 1 and they put in a 43-year-old goalkeeper, making him the oldest player in the World Cup. He even had to save one shot on goal so he earned his keep. But to be fair, Japan was having an awful game. In the Uruguay v. Italy game, fouls were going off all over the place. Most of them were just gusts of wind knocking players to the ground, mostly on the Italian side. There were so many breaks for people falling down that it really wasn't a fun game to watch. It quickly became what will probably be one of the most talked about games of the World Cup, however, when Luis Suarez bit a Uruguayan defender on the shoulder. The defender dropped to the ground grabbing his shoulder and Suarez immediately dropped the ground and grabbed his mouth (His story after the match was that the defender had hit him in the mouth with his shoulder). Despite the defender showing the bite marks to the referee, the referee didn't actually see the incident and Suarez remained in the game. When one of the commentators noticed what had happened, the other commentator's response was “Certainly not again.” Meaning, this is not the first time Suarez has bitten another player. It was in fact the third time. The first time he got a seven-game ban. The second time, a ten-game ban. So now it is up to FIFA to review the footage and evidence and hope they decide to take action. None of the commentators or players have much faith in FIFA but it is so blatantly obvious that hopefully they will make the right decision.