get used to it

This is what the blog will be like for the next month.

I set the alarm for 4:15 AM, set the VCR to start taping at 4:30 in case I didn't get wakened, then woke up at 3:45 and couldn't go back to sleep anyway.

When I watch soccer on teevee, I usually spend 15 minutes or so during the match on the stationary bike. So I imagine I'll get lots of exercise in June ... but it might have looked a bit odd if Robin had gotten out of bed at 5 in the morning only to find her husband pedaling away while Senegal went up 1-0.

My picks for tonight's matches: Cameroon over Ireland, Denmark over Uruguay, Germany over Saudi Arabia. Of course, I picked France in the opener, so ...