Ok, as many of you won't even be online to check this out, there's little point in doing this. But, this is my antidote to the gazillion updates we'll be seeing over the next eleventeen weeks about CIV, which in my book, is a plastic explosive.

Anyway, I stayed at home the other night and struggled to find something to do. I tried playing pinball on my computer but I soon lost concentration, so I tried to select a dvd to watch. As I slowly lost the will to live browsing my dvd collection, I by-passed all the regular favourites (gangster and female-art movies, even TESB) and ended up settling for Beat Street. Fresh.

As I've just finished reading Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and am stuck for something else to read, I looked at my book collection. After about an hour of decision making, I selected the graphic novella Rebel Agent, as it occurred to me I'd never read it before, despite owning it for about a year.

I don't think I'll be finishing it, I'm not impressed. I'll give it a chance though.

The next evening was Liverpool versus AC Milan in the Champions League Final in Athens. Kick off was at 2145 local time so I got to the bar at 2030 and got decent seats in front of the big screen, complete with Liverpool scarf and flag adorning my nervous body.

I received umpteen phonecalls and text messages wishing me luck, as if I was actually playing and I was eventually joined by two colleagues from work. The beer flowed and it was a good atmosphere but ultimately the night was not a success as Liverpool were beaten 2-1. As the bitter taste of defeat seeped into me, I was reminded that AC Milan were very close to not even being allowed to play in the tournament due to the Italian League match-fixing scandal last year. Sweet, thanks for that, beaten by a team that didn't deserve to be in it (although they did deserve to win the match).

So I got to bed around 0100.

I went to work next day, deflated.

Not even a decent blog to cheer me up.

I'd even turned down a night in Tallinn, Estonia (free ferry crossing, free accommodation and cheaper booze) for this, but as I'll be there tomorrow night anyway, so hopefully something eventful will happen.

I also turned down a chance to see Pirates of the Caribbean 3 at its first showing at midnight. Now I'm not sure when I'll get a chance to watch it.

Here's hoping that Celebration IV is going well. Stick around for another exciting instalment of the Rogueish un-Celebration update, coming to a computer screen near you!