And it's over

The tournament ended tonight. I played my semi final against marbles this afternoon and won the series three to one. Definitely a better player than anyone I played up to that point.

Tonight I played the Welshman who beat T-gun in three straight last night. We traded the first two games before he won the third and forth. I had quite the come back going in the third game going from 4-1 to 4-4 before he put the winner away. I graped the fifth game to take it into the sixth. I proceeded to self destruct and scored three of his five goals.

I am extremely frustrated with myself right now. Tomorrow, we are going to play the Norwegian born in Iran, us two against him by himself. Just an exhibition since he is transferring to another vessel, and we cannot let him go undefeated.

Later

Jon

1 and a wake-up

By the time most of you probably read this it will be Tuesday afternoon and I will be back at work officially making it one more day, then I just have to get up and get on the Helo and be on my way. All together now WOO HOO!!!!

Well today the Group play in Foosball finished up. Here are how they ended.

Group A	GP	Pts
me	4	12
the Russian	4	5
T-gun	4	5
T-nav	4	3
the other American	4	1
Group B
the Welshman in Thailand	4	12
marbles	4	9
the Egyptian	4	4
the normal one	4	3
the Nigerian	4	1

So I will play marbles tomorrow and the Welshman has to see who wins the one game play off between the Russian and T-gun. Go T-gun, hey we work in the same department, I have to back my guy.

Otherwise life continues, I am trying to get the last of the paperwork through to get a promotion, but time is getting short. If not this trip the next one will get it done. I honestly want to go into a few more things, but I need to get my gear together for leaving, I don't want a repeat of last departure again.

I had figured I had at least an hour once I had gotten up, and I took a quick shower and heard the phone ring. It was the Party Chief saying the Helo was going to be here in 15 minutes. I was still soaking wet and had all my gear to put into the bag. 20 minutes later I was ready to go, in need of another shower, and the Helo was still at least 45 minutes away. Or so it ended up taking that long for the Helo to get to the boat. I'm not doing that again. I plan on being packed and basically ready to go before shift today.

Later

Breaking news T-gun just beat the Russian and is getting ready to play the Welshman. Gotta go support my guy.

Videos and Foosball

I am still having problems getting that video to play, so I will just give you the hyperlink to Youtube so you can watch it there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrX6Gkiaio8

Here is the current results table for the tourney.

Group A	GP	Pts
me	2	6
the Russian	4	5
T-nav	3	3
T-gun	2	2
the other American	3	0
Group B
the Welshman in Thailand	3	9
marbles	2	3
the Normal one	1	0
the Egyptian	1	0
the Nigerian	1	0

Believe it or not Group A is still pretty much wide open. I need one more win to secure the group. Group B just needs to get it in gear and start playing. I would like to point out that my predictions on the group winners look like they are going to pan out. However the runners-up probably won't.

Thursday I get off the boat, four and a wake up. Actually that was yesterday, today is three and a wake up!

Foosball!!!!!!!

But first, just because I know you all were concerned, I figured out my language problem. Some how the language setting got changed to Norwegian. Yes I was right. Just in case it happens to you, at the bottom of the log-in page the fifthword over is language, or the word for language in what ever tongue you have been changed over too. The page you are sent to has all the languages listed, just click English, if you like you can use the UK version, and select save changes.

An additional aside for all of you who have take the S.H.A.P.E. course, I guess I can cross of Interpretation of Tongues of my list of potential Spiritual Gifts.

Now back to the topic at hand, Foosball!!!! With exactly ten days left until crew change the brackets have been set. This time we are having pool play, with the top two teams from the two pools, advancing to the semi-finals. In group A you have myself, the Russian, another American, and two Trinidadians, we'll call T-gun and T-nav. In group B there is the Welshman who lives in Thialand, the Egyptian who lives in the US, one of the Nigerians, and two Norwegians, we'll call the normal one, the other one marbles because he may be missing a few.

The Italian, didn't make it this trip because of a health issue, but is doing better, and the Iranian born Norwegian has voluntarily sat out, to allow the tournament to not have a forgone winner. Both of them really are significantly better than anyone else on board so it will be interesting.

Right now my predictions are that myself and the Welshman are going to win the groups, with maybe the normal Norwegian being the runner up. Groups A's runner up is pretty wide open and I cannot really guess right now. I will keep you informed, as I know you are anxiously awaiting results.

Finally, I was going to paste this clip in yesterday, but do to the language issue I couldn't. You may have seen this, but if not enjoy.

Jon

Languages

I have a problem, actually many, but the one that is immediately staring me in the face is the fact that Blogger has started showing up in my browser in Norwegian. At least I think it is Norwegian, it could be Swedish or Danish, they do after all come from the same root language.

I wonder if my spell check will still perform its check in English? Nope, it's in Norwegian. The wierd part is only about half the words are high-lighted.

Anyway, I had planned on a rambling treatise on grace, and devising a lame excuse on why I haven't written any entries recently. I will admit I have been busy, but things have slowed down the last couple of days. I have just been watching movies instead of doing other really more important things.

I appoligize for any spelling mistakes, it wasn't my strong suit in school, but again the spell checker is working in Norwegian