Scotland Wins Third Consecutive World Cup

September 14, 2007 - Sun Scotland defeated France to win the Sun Soccer World Cup. After regulation ended scoreless, Scotland outscored France 3-1 in a penalty shootout to win the trophy for the third consecutive year. The Netherlands A team beat Spain 2-0 for third place.

Shame it's not the real world cup, though nice to see that Scotland can beat France at Sun football as well as the real thing!

France 0 Scotland 1

Scotland scored probably their best football result ever yesterday. Having managed to beat France in Scotland one nil, we beat them by in France one nil too. I really enjoyed the celebratory podcast in the car when I was driving to work this morning.

Spookily enough, here is a copy of a mail I sent to a friend in San Francisco two days before the match - "....Aw ra best and hae a guid time. Scotland 3 Lituania 1, France 0 Scotland 1". Now, who could have predicted that result?

Ron the Walker

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Originally uploaded by tomreid

We met this amazing guy on Sunday. I had been persuaded into doing a "slightly challenging" walk on Sunday. This was at Marin Headlands which is just over the Golden Gate from San Francisco. The area slightly to the north of 'Frisco is very different from the urban nature of 'Frisco and is full of open spaces.

We met Ron whilst we were having lunch. He walked up to us shouting that this was his first sight of the Golden Gate Bridge, we gave him some plumbs.

Ron is walking from Portland Oregon to Morgan Hill California, 865 miles! Ron seemed an amazing guy and his son is documenting his travels at http://www.solowalker.thruhere.net/

Happily I survived walking four miles (as opposed to Ron's 865!) with some knee trouble for a bit, which has cleared up now.

Marin Headlands was home for a while around World War 2 for some coastal defenses. These contained huge guns, which happily were never fired in anger. The buildings containing the guns have been disused for years, but are now open every so often, staffed by volunteers.

There is loads of strange grafitti in these old buildings, it makes the space seem quite surreal.



I took this pic using a flashgun, this was a huge tube behind a reinforced door. They used to use this tube to test bombs. The graffiti only becomes visible when you use the flash.



Poor Stitch was a bit knackered towards the end of the walk, he only has little legs.



We finished the day with a huge fondue meal. I particularly liked dipping the sweet things in the chocolate sauce.

More Amusing things seen in San Francisco

At a coffee shop in the Mission -



Political comment -

This is what I look like most of the time

Technology is incredibly useful. Computers are, I think, the most useful and interesting of all. The problem I'm having at the moment is keeping away from them. So this is what I'm looking like most of the time at the moment, despite my long suffering iBook beginning to exhibit some rather eccentric failures of keyboard, probably due to over-use. The number three is now impossible to type on this machine now.


One of the many things keeping me tied to the computer at the moment is all the interesting Kirkcaldybands.com material that's been coming in. The above came from Andy Carr. I hadn't heard from Andy since 1992, it was great to hear from him again. My mate Ritchie (see the post about him below) had guested on many occasions with Andy's blues band, The Summerfield Blues. I love this picture of Ritchie above, he looks like a real blues man.

I've also had some nice e-mails this week from Bil Gimix and Dave Acari from back in the day - keep your e-mails coming guys, knowing you are enjoying the website makes sitting here on a sunny San Franciscan afternoon working away on a website seem worthwhile!

Actually this is one of those few days in San Francisco where you wish you had air con. The window opening here is not that much use without wind! They are more like a "dow" just now, if you see what I mean. Air con provision as standard seems to stop at an invisible line as you drive up the San Francisco peninsula, around San Mateo. I suppose it's better for the environment not to run air con.

However, I have a distraction now this weekend as we have a wedding to go to. I have not worn a suit and tie since 2004 and that was just for an (unsuccessful) job interview. I had to buy new suit specially here, as I didn't even own one. Come to think of it, I don't think I even owned a tie. I can't wait to see what we look like all posh for the wedding.