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For example, I'm REAL sorry that Team Canada beat the American women's football (soccer) team to get into the final, avenging the horribly officiated loss of the 2012 Olympics!

Sara! Oh, boy! I haven't had great GF sugar cookies in donkey's years! Thank you, sweet lady!

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Oh, Sorry!

There is one thing I am beginning to suspect, that maybe Canadians are a wee bit non-sincere in their apologies. I have a mind picture of a group of them sitting around laughing their bums off at the gullible outsiders. Maybe I'm wrong, if so, please accept my very sincere, extremely sincere *sorry*

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Canada is off to the Gold Medal match in soccer. Awesome stuff. Heartbreaking for Team USA, but that's how sports go. That's why we play the game. Just like when Canada was on the receiving end of a bittersweet Team USA finish several years ago. As much as we prognosticate, the outcome is never predetermined. Unless it is. If the latter is the case, then we have no control of our destiny. Whatever we do, it was predetermined for us to do that. No free will. What's done is done because it was supposed to be done.

Yeah, it is not like they have never won at women's footie before, eh.

So, personal connection here. Many years ago, when my son was a wee one, he played Northwest Optimist kids soccer here in London, and I volunteered as a coach. Coaching kids that age is basically herding cats, so my minimal knowledge of footie didn't matter much (my brothers played minor soccer but I didn't). Apparently another player in that league around that time was named Jessie Fleming. She scored the winner yesterday. Not sure if we ever met, but it is possible. Wonderful to think that one of those kids scrambling around the field chasing the ball is now playing for Chelsea (Fleming plays pro in the UK since women's pro soccer is basically non-existent in North America) and winning Olympic medals.

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Finally read up on what happened with the Nats-Padres game. Ugh. Surprised it hasn't made any of my usual news sources or Twitter follows. Only knew it happened because of Larry and Jeff talking about it.

Love how you help out with the church kids, Sara. Bet they get as much from your stories as from the lessons.

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We went for a drive over and around the countryside just to get out of the house after I got home from the hospital. We stopped and walked a bit with Victor on the leash. We were out for about three hours or so.

I just got home and looked at the radiology reports for my Chest and Pelvic CT scans. Everything is virtually the same as 4 months ago. That is good. Past areas of cancer in the pelvic region are continuing to show as unremarkable. That means in essence they see no cancer there. Definitely not growing. The metastasized cancer that spread to my left hip bone is continuing to be stable. That means it is not growing so we simply watch it.

The whole report is really very good. Nothing to worry about. No new therapies were indicated.

I'll have some fresh coffee. Take care Inspirators.