Boulder to London

This one is a day old, but a funny store all the same.  This past weekend was pretty great.  On Saturday, Melisse and I went down to the Borough market and Sunday we spent in Richmond.  Both were excellent places to be outside in the beautiful weather.  We also recently got a TV with digital service and a DVR.  I had a DVR in Boulder, but failed to ever use it much.  Before we left on both days, I noticed that there were football (soccer) matches on that I wanted to watch.  The weather was simply too nice to site inside so  I decided to enhance my life with technology and hit the record button on the DVR.  Things worked great and when I returned on Saturday I watched England vs Croatia in a World Cup qualifying match.  On Sunday it was the Netherlands vs Iceland.  I enjoyed watching both matches as well as the convenience of watching them when I wanted to.

I came into the office on Monday and attended our usual 10:00 meeting to discuss the coming week.  Before the meeting started, people were doing their usual greetings…how was your weekend…yeah, good…you?  You know how it goes.  Anyway, I decided to share my incredible weekend and let everyone know that I had been out and about, but that I had also watched England play Croatia.  Someone looked over at me and said…you mean Kazakhstan, you don’t want to get those two confused.  Proudly I said…No, Croatia.  It was a good game, they won 4-2.  Someone else jumped in and said…no, England played Kazakhstan this weekend.  At that point I was really confused.  Someone then jumped in and informed me that I had watched a game that was several weeks old and was simply being replayed on TV.  I guess that explains my other bit of confusion which was how they were fitting commercials into the live broadcast.

Somedays I’m not as smart as I’d like to be….