{"id":971,"date":"2007-07-03T20:50:21","date_gmt":"2007-07-04T00:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/07\/03\/took-a-day-off-pre-fourth-updates\/"},"modified":"2007-07-03T20:50:21","modified_gmt":"2007-07-04T00:50:21","slug":"took-a-day-off-pre-fourth-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/07\/03\/took-a-day-off-pre-fourth-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Took a day off; pre-fourth updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a successful run of 29 posting days in the last 30 days, I had to take a day off.  Sorry, but that is the way it goes.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Copa America<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 I have not seen any of Team USA\u2019s games, but it sounds like we have not done very well, going down to Argentina 4-1, and Paraguay 3-1.  ESPN.com had an <a href=\"http:\/\/soccernet.espn.go.com\/columns\/story?id=443105&root=us&cc=5901\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/soccernet.espn.go.com\/columns\/story?id=443105&amp;root=us&amp;cc=5901', 'interesting story');\" target=\"new\">interesting story<\/a> about the MLS, the US National Soccer team, and the absence of Donovan from Copa America.  At some point, we will have to make a commitment to these types of tournaments if we ever want to truly turn the corner as a soccer power.  The only way you get better is by making commitments to play teams like Argentina.  Keepings my fingers crossed to sooner rather than later.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>WoW<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 I finally made L38, but it was a struggle.  I may play some tomorrow, but at this rate it will take me forever and a day to make a serious push towards L70.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>OOTPB 2007<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 My team (the Columbus Kudzu) pretty much stinks this year, but I have still managed a 50-50 record, which is only 4 GB of the wild card.  I really like this game, but I never seem to have the time to dedicate to getting better.  When I first started playing OOPTB (I think v6.0), I enjoyed playing solo, but with 2006 (ouch) and 2007 I only simulated a few historic seasons to see how the engine worked.  In a perfect world I would be able to spend enough time playing solo to kick booty in online leagues, but it is not a perfect world.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Jeff Gordon<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 As predicted, he did not miss a beat.  He is on such a roll that I really do not see anything slowing him down anytime soon.  Is it too soon to hand him the Championship?  After watching the race Sunday, I kept thinking that maybe I should pick up NASCAR 08, but I am going to try hard to resist temptation.  F1CE should be enough to hold my attention, but it is hard to resist the new shiny.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>NCAA Football 2008<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 Speaking of the new shiny, I still have not preordered the game, but I assume I will at some point.  I need to check again to see if I am going to hate the game if it has 30 frames per second missing (my attempt at sarcasm).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On a personal note, yesterday at my postop appointment, my doctor told me that my biopsy came back clean.  Happy days!  There is probably some other stuff to write about, but I want to go play a game or watch a moving or have a stiff drink.  Or maybe all three.<\/p>\n<p>Hope everyone has a great 4th of July!<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a successful run of 29 posting days in the last 30 days, I had to take a day off. Sorry, but that is the way it goes. Copa America \u2013 I have not seen any of Team USA\u2019s games, but it sounds like we have not done very well, going down to Argentina 4-1, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/07\/03\/took-a-day-off-pre-fourth-updates\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Took a day off; pre-fourth updates<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}