So a couple weeks ago we pretty much had a blizzard (at least by my standards) that even had some thunder and rain mixed in with it. Tonight, we have thunderstorm with a good mixture of hail. Just plain weird weather if you ask me. Although I’ll consider tonight’s weather a sign of spring, since we normally have thunderstorms in the spring.
And Spring = Start of Water Ski Season.
Got an email today announcing that Pearl Jam‘s new album is coming out May 2 and I’ll get to download the first single on March 8th for free. I can’t wait!!!
I was reading Tristan’s blog and I guess I feel the need to kinda of second his opinion. People are saying that the US team was a disappointment. I couldn’t disagree more. Yea, there were some less then stellar moments (speed skaters arguing about team, show boating, Bode) but there were some really good moments too. Sasha Cohen’s short program was great and she had a strong finish to her long program that earned her a silver, Apollo just embodies the Olympic ideal, some excellent speed skating performances, and a skier that came back from a horrendous crash to compete well. And how ’bout the half pipe snow boarders. Having fun and taking home the medals.
I just can’t get over how when our athletes are competing against the rest of the world’s best athletes and the fact that they don’t always get a medal is a disappointment. Some of these sports aren’t everyday sports here in the states and we’re losing to these other countries where these sports are THIER sports. Holland is speed skating, Germany is luge and bobsled.
Also, people are disappointed in the ratings. Do you know how hard it is to stay in the dark all day and not find out results? It isn’t easy. Open the browser and BOOM, there is a result you didn’t want to see yet. And very few people like to watch a sporting event knowing the result, especially if it isn’t the result they want.
All in all, I thought we did very well. I would have liked to see the men’s hockey team do better, but there are a lot of good hockey players in the world and not all of ’em are from North America.
Nothing major to post, I didn’t see another movie today. But I did come across an interesting article about what we (Americans) know. Here is a link to it (don’t worry, it is a very brief article).
It got me thinking about how I can watch the first few seconds of a Seinfeld episode and damn near play the entire rest of it back in my head, remembering all of the funny little jokes in it. Sometimes, I’ll even remember jokes made in subsequent, or previous episodes, that make reference to the episode I just thought about. All this takes place in a just a few seconds. I’ll take this as a sign about just how true this article is.
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