immediately upon arriving, i ran into our cfo, who was looking for the rest of the group before heading to dinner. i suggested the bar, and he successfully found them. after getting into my room, i had to turn right back around to drive over to kinkos to pick up the copies i had had made. i sent the files over this morning at about 10, and let them know i would be picking them up around 7. imagine my surprise when i called back at 4:30 to check on the progress (yes, i am anal retentive)and was told that they were closed.
i indicated to the gentleman on the other end of the line, that that was not communicated to me earlier, in the sweetest, flirtiest voice i could muster, and the response was that he would personally see to it that someone was there at 7 to unlock the store for me.
so after missing a couple of turns and only getting slightly lost, i found my way, picked up my copies and came back.
i immediately turned the tv to the olympics, and *shock* *gasp* it was fuzzy! lines all through it. abc is having the same problem, (which is of course, the other channel i was planning on watching this evening). i called down and was told that an engineer would be up to check on it. (do you have to have an engineering degree to jiggle a cable?) but i've just gotten off the phone with the front desk, who is aware of the problem, is sincerely sorry, but the problem is a result of snow, so i can watch two movies on them. which is all good, but what i really want to watch is the olympics and grey's anatomy. baltimore is conspiring against me.
i'm also struggling with nbcolympics.com (which is not the fault of the city of baltimore). all of their online coverage is real time, and all of their televised coverage is not. it is extremely frustrating to click on one of my little 'olympic alerts' with an ambiguous title, only to immediately be confronted with event results for events i was planning on watching later that evening when they actually broadcast it. so frustrating!
moving past the frustration. more nostalgia tonight. ohno is skating, and they keep talking about his controversial gold which came as a result of the korean disqualification (which was totally justified, by the way!). i didn't have the opportunity to attend many events because i was working, but that night, the press chief made an executive decision to shut down the press rooms (and various other areas of responsibility), and the entire team went to watch the race from somebody's phat suite. that's when the pic was taken. i actually think that if the cameramen hadn't been there, it might have been the most brilliant photo i've ever taken. too bad it was on a 2. something megapixel digital camera i had borrowed.in other news today...(and i won't even mention michelle kwan, because we are all in mourning)...
'grandma luge' injured in crash: anne abernathy, the 52-year-old slider known as 'grandma luge,' was injured during a crash in practice sunday.
abernathy was taken to a hospital with an unspecified arm injury. olympic officials said they did not know the extent of her injury or whether abernathy, who is competing in her sixth olympics, will be able to participate in the games.
u.s. announces team pursuit squads:olympic gold medalist chad hedrick was among five chosen sunday for the u.s. men's team pursuit in speed skating.
also named to the team were kc boutiette , derek parra , clay mull and charles leveille. hedrick won the 5000m saturday.
white a winner, kass comes in second: the flying tomato got his gold.
redheaded snowboarding superstar shaun white punked the competition on the halfpipe sunday, beating out teammate danny kass to win the olympic gold medal that so many expected him to get.
ohno stumbles out of 1500m: apolo anton ohno stumbled out of a chance at gold in his first olympic event, a shocking start to these winter games for the american short-track star.
simply put, apolo made a strategic error tonight. it was an unnecessary move. two skaters were going to qualify for the finals and he was in the second position when he attempted the pass. if you're going to make a move like that, you have to make sure it is clean, and apolo did not. the short answer is that he didn't have to make that move but he did and it cost him.
ohno nearly fell with 1½ laps to go in a semifinal heat of the 1500m sunday night, and wound up last across the line among those still skating. his mistake ruined any chance to defend his olympic title in a much-anticipated showdown against south korea's 1-2 punch - ahn hyun-soo and lee ho-suk .
birthday boy: one of the nicest things was everybody singing "happy birthday" to steve nyman in the finish. today's his 24th birthday. and i mean everyone: teammates, fans, tv people, everyone. it's his first olympics, his first race, and when they sang the song, he was so moved he fell down in the finish and just lay there in the snow. when he came out of the finish, he was just beaming.
miller and rahlves lose out: antoine deneriaz of france, the last man out of the gate with a chance to win, pulled off a startling upset in the olympic downhill sunday to steal what seemed to be a sure gold medal from austrian michael walchhofer .
and just one more reason you can't stop yourself from loving bad boy bode (from the 2005 worlds)
well, back to work for me.
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