Gotta go to a friend's house to watch Brazil in World Cup

When we moved into the house we're in now, we decided not to hook up the
TV to any signal. That was 12 years ago. We don't miss it much, except
every four years when the World Cup comes around.

So this morning we're going over to some friends' house, about 5 minutes
away, to watch the game which starts at 11 am. Big one today, against
Portugal, the mother country.

Then back here for the ladies to prepare to travel to Sao Paulo today by
bus, at 5 p.m. or so. Tomorrow there's a ladies' day in the capital, so
they're going to stay with Paula and Jorge tonight. They should be back
tomorrow night. Until then, just me and the dogs. And the fish. The
latter I can handle. The dogs know to keep quiet when they're with me,
but still ...

Email is my thing

I'm beginning to see, said the blind man.

Now, this email is going to create a new post? Or will it be added as a
comment. And can comments be done on posterous? So many questions!

Email is my thing

I've always been an email addict. I even pay for my email service at
fastmail.fm which I consider the best around. I can fly with it.

So I'm not sure why I didn't warm automatically to posterous.com. Maybe
I was so enamored of that other service that I didn't catch all the good
features available here. But now that I'm helping others get online,
maybe this is just what I need to do a whizband job of it.

Ah, and the Portuguese? That's a biggie. And accents? Let's see:
acentuação. à crase. Eles têm. So there ...

First post

Here I am testing this service. I thought I'd sent at least one
email/post to this site before, but nothing shows up there. Might this
be a good service to pitch to others?

The email option is very good. Automatic. So here goes. Let's see what
happens.