When the Olympics were here in Salt Lake, we didn't go to any events, but it was wonderful fun to see everyone who was visiting. Hubby was having lunch in his favorite Chinese buffet place and ended up playing tour guide for the Lithuanian hockey team (the hockey practice place was just down the road). He ended up helping out a lot of large, young, Slavic people and their coaches. Apparently they found a largish, friendly, Slavic-looking local who could find his way around Germanic languages very comforting.
And riding the train in Salt Lake was great fun, listening to all the different nationalities.
Then there was the Great Beer Riot from the last Sunday night. Hubby had been invited to the Germany pavilion--an odd story involving a science fiction convention at Brigham Young University, an elevator ride with the Bavarian Trade Minister, and the unexpected presence of Dick Cheney--and at the end of the night the Germans ran out of beer.
And riding the train in Salt Lake was great fun, listening to all the different nationalities.
I didn't go to any games, but being in Paris for the '98 World Cup was amazing. The atmosphere was just so invigorating. Of course, it was summer.
It is beautiful outside. Bright blue skies. And yet I know it is only 13 degrees out there. I think I'm going to give up on the working from home, at least for now, and take a nap. First I need to find some pain meds for my head.
So has the Great Chicago Snowpocalypse of Not!Aught Ten turned into a bust? Or is this just a break in the storm?
I've still got snow up here, tom.
We're getting light snow at the moment.
According to the Tribune, the snow is never going to be a big deluge, just a constant light snow all the way through noon tomorrow, adding up to 6-12 inches (depending on where you're at). As of 1:00, Northbrook (just east of me) has had 4.5 inches already.
It's a steady light snow here.
Fox has an fun new marketing approach for Glee. [link]
From the
Awful Library Books
blog, Partying…horses?
Latawnya, the Naughty horse, learns to say “no” to drugs
Now this is funny! Latawnya learned the hard way. Check out these pictures of smoking and drinking horses!
