Yesterday, I nailed down the three games that aired - New Zealand-Slovakia, Ivory Coast-Portugal, and Brazil-North Korea.

The day was highlighted by the last minute goal by New Zealand to secure the draw and the intrigue and excitement of the Brazil-North Korea match - the second Brazil goal, by Elano was the best goal of the day, and the general mysteriousness of the North Koreans plus their surprisingly (to me) good play. Also by how relatively boring the Ivory Coast-Portugal was. Even when (albeit still injured) Didier Drogba entered the pitch, did the excitement level barely improve.

Alas, more matches.

Backlog: 5 matches

As of after June 15, 2010: 9/63 total matches watched.

I was out of the US for some time, but now I'm back and it's World Cup season. I'm going to attempt (I'm not yet sure if I will actually be able to do it yet) to watch every match of the World Cup. This doesn't mean I have to watch them live - that would be impossible - I can DV-R them, and I don't have to watch them in order. If I am actually going to do it, I'm going to say that I need to finish all the games before the final. That sets an actual end date, but gives me some leeway if I fall behind in these opening rounds, since, seriously, there's three matches a day, it's a lot of football (soccer, whatever, either way). Also, since I'm watching out of order, yes, I'm going to find out some scores before I see the matches, but honestly it's just impossible to not - I've managed to hold off for a few more important games to me, and ones I'm going to watch very soon after they aired.

I was unable to watch anything on Friday or Saturday so those matches are all logged on the DV-R.

On Sunday, I woke up early and watched my recorded US-England manage, which I miraculously managed to not have ruined for me.

I then went to Loreley on the Lower East Side and watched Serbia-Ghana and Germany Australia there.

After Sunday June 13 - 3/63 total matches

Monday June 14:

Woke up and watched Netherlands-Denmark

Watched Japan-Cameroon in the afternoon and Italy-Paraguay at night

After Monday June 14 - 6/63 total matches watched.

More thoughts tomorrow after matches and sleep.