Surfing the web this evening to get my mind off some bad stuff, and I came across this one at the Smithsonian Mag website. The University of Dayton held the first ever Library Olympics last week. Some fascinating events in this to be sure, though not as showy as the ones going on in Rio.

Librarians Have an Olympics, Too

Congratulations, Team Canada ( Read more... )

*yawn ( Read more... )

I woke up this morning somewhat late, after having a good albeit tiring game session last night with the Friday gaming group. (More on that later this morning in a separate blog entry ( Read more... )

Catching up with a bit of sports news, and see over on the TSN Website that there's good news for Ottawa Senators fans (among whom I count myself).

Senators Announce Alfredsson Will Return for Next Season

This is excellent news to hear!

Oh, and in other sports news, Canada won three more Bronze medals today at the Olympic Games.

I know that most folks have already watched the London 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony, either live or the various re-showings of them the last day or so, but I've finally managed to catch up with them and check them out on one of TSN's re-broadcasts of the events ( Read more... )