Ufez Jones is 25! 
...And probably a little hungover this morning.
Awwww. He's just a baby!
So, how'd that trip to Bermuda go, Commish? (scroll down to last two paragraphs of the story).
I'd claim the "crash" nick, but it seems to have been taken.
I got back last night, and my wife went into the hospital here at home today. Her surgery went well, and she should be home tomorrow. However, my "vacation" lasted a week longer than expected, and I spent the last nine days of it inside a hospital room, gradually getting back the lung power necessary to get on a plane. Meanwhile, my wife got to spend the last three days of our vacation alone, with a broken arm, and then fly back to spend six days alone here with a broken arm.
We'll be alright, though, and it's amazing that every time you think things can't be worse you hear of something that is. In the Bermuda hospital, I met another tourist who had a similar scooter accident, but on the first day there, and in the scooter rental parking lot. Likewise, on the flight back to America, I met another guy boarding in a wheelchair and asked the obvious question "scooter accident"? His replay was "no, pneumonia. I spent four hours in Bermuda, and the last seven days in the hospital". So, just so this thread isn't really about me, anyone else have any sympathy-inducing vacation stories to share?
So who do you want to win? And who do you think will win Euro 2004?
Btw, the English fans have been praised by every editor, columnist, shoe-shine and housewife in the country - they've been great fun, all 30,000 of them, bar the dozen or so racist sociopaths who tried to stir things up and who, according to the police, aren't even football fans. It's been my first opportunity to watch English fans up-close and first-hand and, like everyone else here in Lisbon and Porto, I've found them charming, friendly and sceptical, leading me to think the whole hooliganism brouhaha is wildly exaggerated.
