Love, dentistry, football and perjury

I went downtown
I saw miss brown
She had brown sugar
All over her booga-wooga.

-Bob Marley

Hello! Happy Valentines to all of ye. All is well here. I am recovering nicely from root canal part 1. La Profesora and i caught up last night for Vantine´s. I cooked my famous angel hair and anchovie pasta - except the angel hair was just spaghetti. We had a great time. Maria had a rough week (her boss is insane!) and took some kind of stress medicine and was basically out of her head! It was quite amusing.

She´s at lunch at her mom´s and i am just hanging in Getafe, as these lunches are always the three chicas (her mom and sister).

UEFA CUP

It was a disaster. Aguero, Atleti´s best player got a red card for spitting. Not at someone - just for spitting! Bolton scored 60 seconds later and Aguero is out for the return leg this Thursday in Madrid, down 1-0 on aggregate.

What else - I cleaned the flat- preparing slowly for the big move. I´ve got some feelers out and got some bites, but it´s still early yet. Apartments get rented in less than a week in Madrid.

Oh my darlin´
Oh my darlin´
Oh my darlin´ Clementine!
You are lost and gone forever
Oh my darlin´ Clementine!
- (As arranged by) Huckleberry Hound

Roger Clemens is a big fat liar. And a cheater. And just kind of a butt munch in general. The tale I read in the International Herald Tribune was sickening. Roger Clemens visited a whole bunch of the committee last week (Passing out glossys and signed baseballs) and then met with a house keeper he hadn´t seen in 7 years before she testified! Hello....tampering anyone?I don´t think players should be crucified for taking performance enhancing drugs in the 90´s and early 00´s because EVERYONE in baseball- players, managers, owners - knew about it.

We fans all thought the ball was juiced. Well, we were close.

However, I do feel Clementine deserves to be castigated for

• being a liar (steroids, "McNamara took me out of game 6 at Shea!")
• a conniver when it comes to contract negotiations ("I want to be on a winner! Trade me" - then why did you decide to sign with Toronto when even toddlers knew they were rebuilding? - oh, cuz they offered the most money!)
• A bad professional and a bad teammate for throwing people under the bus in an attempt to clear his name
• For being a headhunter (though not in Houston, which I´m sure had nothing to do with him having to bat)
• For throwing a broken bat at Mike Piazza
• For buying his son a yellow Hummer

He´ll never be indicted for perjury, but now we know the real deal about about the rocket.

Houston... we have a problem!