Thanksgiving week is finally here

Maybe it would help if I had a calendar hanging in my room.

… In my last blog I wrote that Thanksgiving would be last week according to the time frame. Man, was I wrong. Of course, my few readers failed to point that out to me. But whatever, I can’t alienate them since they are all I got.

I just finished my sixth straight shift and still have three more to go until I get Thanksgiving weekend off. I’ll be driving to Fresno on Thanksgiving morning and will probably arrive at my sister’s house no later than noon. I don’t anticipate heavy traffic in Southern California that morning.

On Friday my entire family will be all together to celebrate my father’s birthday a few days earlier at dinner at a restaurant to be named later. It should be a good week, now that it is finally here.

… Over the past week I’ve been cleaning my room and bathroom. It hasn’t been this clean since, I don’t know when, sometime after I moved in no doubt.

I will say it looks a lot nicer now. I threw away a lot of boxes which saved me plenty of space. I also went through the stacks of mail I had and have another pile of ready-to-shred documents for my nephews and niece to go through for me.

Now, let’s see how long I can keep it like this.

… I watched the final UEFA playoff for the 2010 World Cup between Ireland and France and saw the handball by Thierry Henry that he turned into a crossing pass to William Gallas who scored a goal and led the French to South Africa.

Now it was easy to see and it was clear that the referee blew the call. I believe that Henry unintentionally committed that handball; that ball just ran up on him giving him little time to react.

Should he have said something? In a perfect world, yes, but we don’t live in that world. At the 1962 World Cup a Soviet player told the referee to disallow a goal against Uruguay because it did not cross the goal line. Now, if you look at every World Cup since you’ll find a few goals that should not have been allowed and players knew it but did not say anything.

The simple answer is video replay and it should be looked into; however, don’t anticipate any changes. This is a sport that doesn’t stop the clock leaving players and fans wondering how much time is truly left in a match … well they have a general idea anyway.