Avoiding World Cup Spoilers

I'm living in mortal terror of running into someone who's going to tell me the scores of the World Cup games that played today. I've put a sign outside my cube warning potential spoiler-bearers to stay away and I'm avoiding the Internet like it was the plague. That includes soccernet.com, cnn.com and when I check my mail, I avoid reading those breaking news banners, littered all over the place.

All this for what?

Well, I've TIVO/ DVRd the games so when I get home, I can settle down with a gigantic sandwich and approximately 8 beers and watch the action unfold, as if it were live. Three games, which translates into 270 minutes of top-class soccer. The problem is if the score is given away, my viewing excitement becomes irretrievably compromised. I mean, what's the point of watching a game when you know there's going to be no goals?

And this is pretty much going to be my fate for the next 30 days (at least, the weekday portions; the weekend, I don't actually have to do anything else). Time difference sucks. Even more so in a backward-ass country like this one that doesn't have the decency to suspend all commercial activity while a momentous occasion like the World Cup is taking place.

God, I hate living here. Did you hear what I've been saying? They don't like football!