I sat down to supper in front of the TV and watched the women's half-pipe snowboarding. Frigging wow!

I promised myself I'd turn off the TV when the event ended. Well, I stayed to watch Chloe Kim's last and celebratory run. The women's half-pipe is best-of-three, and she had the highest score at the end of the second round, 93.75, evidently out of ( Read more... )

Not to drink or eat. I decided to switch off the Pandora Celtic Music channel, my favorite background, and happened to be using the Peel Remote app on my smartphone instead of the FiOS/TV remote... and saw that the Winter Olympics, which I hadn't watched yet, was on and available with a single tap. Well! Tuned into it and watched figure skating, ( Read more... )

Listening to the OOOOOlympic closing ceremonies just now as crankyinfrance watches them. The Russians, who will host the next one in Sochi in 2014, are putting on a show.

C. asked about my sudden exclamation, and I told her that the soprano was singing "Stranger in Paradise", which greatly surprised me.

But as long I was at the keyboard, I used Google, and ( Read more... )

In the Men's Aerials, Ray Walston was an early champion.

... as I sit at my desk downstairs while dunkelpig and crankyinfrance watch the Winter Olympics. They are not disturbed or distracted by most of the ads. I, OTOH...

1. Bathtub: Living on the East Coast of the US, I don't usually hear or read about Vancouver nearly as often as, say, Baltimore, Toronto, or Denver. I learned Esperanto in my teens and was quite fluent, and earned a certificate of fluency in it, and still occasionally scribble or read in it; and for the first week or so leading into these Olympics, I ( Read more... )

Watching the Olympics, Women's Gymnastics. Some of these performances.... well, I said it up top.

Watching the Olympics. Bob Costas is talking with Bush. Jeez, what a lamebrain! (And I don't mean Costas.)

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