And We're Back Up.

At around 21:20 on 17/6/12 my home Internet connection is working. So anyway;

Today my little brother suddenly decided that he was coming up to dinner. Possibly this is because it's UK father's day. Possibly this is because it's the day of the Euro threatening (no really) result of the Greek Parliamentary election and last week he had a 150 word piece in "City AM" a London free-sheet aimed at the financial markets. Either way I got stoned and somehow magically turned Friday night's stew into Sunday night's dinner before we all played a game called "Ssshh! Football."

While we were watching the Portugal V Netherlands Euro2012 game Germany scored against Denmark in the other group B match. So I immediately switched channels just as they were showing a replay of the goal in the Portugal V Netherlands game. Then while we were watching the Germany V Denmark game there was a goal in the Portugal V Netherlands match and no-one showed a replay. It was at this point that we decided that with an iPhone, a Galaxy smart-phone, an Android tablet and a Wi-Fi home Internet connection surely we could watch one game on TV and the other on one of the devices. Sadly this seems to have made the home Internet connection cry. But it's working now and that's the main thing even though we seem to be in the midst of one of those forced crunch points.

In the Greek Parliamentary election the full results are not yet available but during half-time in the football anti-EU SYRIZA conceded defeat but to whom we are not sure. Pro-EU NEW DEMOCRACY seem to have come first but have fallen short of a governing majority so will have to try and negotiate a formal coalition with pro-EU PASOK.

The formal results of the Egyptian Presidential run-off are not scheduled until Thursday (21/6/12) but the rumour is that tomorrow (18/6/12) the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces will make a constitutional declaration. Although they've yet to email a copy to my Blackberry I suspect that this will be them defining the constitution that will be used during the upcoming round of Parliamentary elections in order to avoid the Muslim Brotherhood confusing the Supreme Constitutional Court for a second time.

As for the French Parliamentary elections I haven't got a clue so it looks like it's going to be a long night. That's a shame because the time difference between London and Mexico means that I could feasibly be up and had research done in time to make a decent post before the start of the G20.