Wow Roger

US OPEN 2007: ROUND OF 16

The way Federer made it 40-30 before he took the 2nd set a point later made me yell in my home.


Then just now, Fed goes down love forty. Lopez thinks he's gonna break in the first game of the 3rd set but then Fed turns it around in short order with a hold of serve. This relative blogger second, Lopez is down 15-40 in the 2nd game of the 3rd set. Fuck i love tennis. I love Roger. He just broke Lopez. It's the fuckin Fed express!!

Wimbledon

I just want to say how happy I am to have been alive in the "Federer era" where I was able to watch Roger Federer win his 5th Wimbledon title in a row live on the television. It was such a thrilling match to watch. I was on the edge of my seat and involved in watching the game like I never had been before. You gotta give it to Nadal for being the first person to take Federer to five sets at Wimbledon since Federer started his streak. In the fifth set Federer was down 15-40 in two games and was able to pull himself out of those holes to win. He then broke Nadal on his next two service games to win the tournament with an overhead smash! Fantastic!!

Holy facebook

I can't believe the people I've been able to find through facebook.com in just 3 days. So many people who moved away and I lost touch with, seemingly permanently... just a search away. People from highschool where the prevaling in thing at the time was being cool and making sure everyone knew it now all grown up and pursuing careers and families and sharing their experiences with people who'd have never guessed they'd be associating in some distant future. It's pretty amazing. I suggest if you haven't tried it to give it a whirl. Even if you use an alias just to search the database, you may be very surprised by the results you get.

I'm in the Kelowna BC network. I'm done raving. Now I have to figure out new travel plans for the summer so I can see some of these people who I haven't seen in over 10 years?!

Oh speaking of which, I'm taking off to the Vancouver area from the 20th to the 24th. Going to visit Grandma and Habby and various other people. Maybe I'll visit Jonix just before I leave so I can fuck up his racquet hand so he doesn't play tennis without me...

Federer PWNs Nadal on Clay

For the first time ever, Roger Federer, world's number 1 in tennis, has managed to beat Rafael Nadal on clay. Thus ended Nadal's 81 match win streak on clay, the longest win streak on any one surface. The French Open is just around the corner, and for the first time ever, Roger will be going into it with the concrete knowledge that he can beat the reigning champion, Mr Nadal. Perhaps this will be the year that Roger can finally win all 4 grand slams in a year thus completing a calendar slam!

In other news,
Ninjas VS Knights
The Ninjas won 86-1(seppuku)

Swiss Crime Article

I was thinking of Roger Federer and then I wondered if there was a lot of crime in Switzerland so I googled Swiss crime and found:

LINK

How does Michael Moore feel about the Swiss? Can you ask him for me pls?

Spanish word for incredible is?

Oh that Roger..

Put it out there

So carefully each step I tread
waiting for the abating of
we were wandering among shadows
until there was no light
I emerged from the fog like
what is this right?

Through a tunnel of my time to a door I put my hand on and the heat seared my flesh and yet I held on thinking surely anything this difficult to get must be worth the scorched flesh of my endurance.

Where have I been? To which places were we going.
Every color changing and yet immutable. How did you build this?

Wash it off.
Wash it all away.
You can't keep it here.
Only you can stay.

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"Vicariously I
live while the whole world dies" -- TOOL

I was happy to find "Third Eye" for my piespace

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We're into the claycourt season so I need everyone's help with something. I just want you to put a thought out there for Mr Federer. "Roger will win". Know it. Breathe it. Make it.

A new foil for Roger

I woke up at noon today and turned on the TV in time to see Roger Federer lose to Guillermo Canas for the second consecutive match in 2 tournaments. It seems Federer may have a new foil in Canas. Canas is only the 5th person in pro-tennis to record back to back wins against Federer.

Canas knocked Federer out early in the last tournament they played (Indian Wells), ending Roger's 41 match win streak. It was so early that televised coverage of the tournament hadn't even started. I felt a little robbed at not being able to see Federer play.

So they met up again in this tournament(Key Biscayne), and while it looked like Roger was going to pull it together, Canas was able to turn being broken twice in the last set into a tiebreaker and eventually a win. From the little I saw at the end, it seemed like Roger was kind of falling apart. I hope he glues himself back together.



While I'm sad for the world's #1, I'm sure Roger will put his newfound time to use training to win the 2nd of 4 grand slams this year: The French Open

I'd like to see Canas VS Nadal to see how the two Roger-killers stack up against each other...

It ain't easy being me

Seriously.

Do you have any idea how hard it is to hit 3 balls a second consistently while not letting your left foot touch the ground?



It ain't easy being Dustix either. He was the one on the other side and still is as a matter of fact! I mean, look at those balls flying at me! This is live coverage! I'm blogging this post right now by squeezing my racquet computer at different pressures. The light you see is the result of massive lights powered by the near hurricane-force wall of air that Dustix and I are pushing into the windmills we had the foresight to install here at the Polson tennis courts. And the only reason I'm able to keep my left foot off the ground is because he's hitting them so f*n hard that they push me back from hitting them!

After a few days of this (I cleared the time off from work with my boss via my handy sweaterphone) I should probably look something like this: