Somebody asked me if I could do something on Saturday.  But I’m busy.  I’ve had plans for 4 years.  Saturday morning at 11:30 am, the US plays England for the first time since 1950, when we beat those british blokes 1-0.  Lucas, Ethan, Masoud and I got to go see US vs Sweden a couple years ago, and we saw Donovan become the leading scorer in US Soccer history.  Last summer, at the Confederations Cup, the US beat Spain (who was ranked by FIFA as #1 in the world at the time) to make it into the semi-finals.  These 4 years have built up more anticipation than I have had for any other World Cup.  I’m looking forward to Friday morning when I will consume donuts and coffee and watch the World Cup opener with Lucas and friends.  Rhonda and I started emptying the Tivo last night just to make room for the matches.  Here is a beautiful video ad that nike put together of some of the Cup’s biggest stars, and as Zach Lind said, if this doesn’t get you excited for the World Cup, then you suck.

We just wrapped up our Coffee Tasting Party.  Rhonda and I invited a few friends over to taste some different roasts and blends from Land of a Thousand Hills Coffee Co.  1000 Hills is actually a non-profit company that is building sustainable living for a village in Rwanda.  If you order coffee through them, you are making sure that your coffee money is supporting people that really need the income (rater than helping execs at SBux pay off their Range Rovers).

It’s a pretty simple idea.  You pay $27 a month to be in the coffee club.  You get 2 bags of coffee sent to your house every month.  The sampler pack I bought for the coffee party was really good coffee, and it had been roasted only a few days before it showed up on my doorstep.

There are so many things that you cannot fix, but this is one thing that any coffee drinker can do to make an area of the world a little bit better, even though you’re half a world away.

We got to do the anatomy ultrasound today.  Rhonda needed to be there at 2, but her appointment wasn’t till 2:30.  So I was going to show up at the appointment.  Well, she got in really fast, and all of a sudden there are phone calls and text messages.  She’s got blue goo on her belly and I’m 2 miles away.  All the lights were red on the way there.  Luckily, I got there before the tech looked at the… um… well… whether it was a boy or not a boy.  It’s a boy!