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Friday, February 10, 2006
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I've been watching the opening ceremonies for the past hour. Several observations:
- It's always fun to check out the various team fashion statements. But where the rubber meets the road on the couture front has to be the hats!!!!!!! The Austrian hats were kind of scary - what was that black fuzzy thing on top? It looked like a mink mohawk. Loved the Canadian Elmer Fudd hats!
- What do we need to do to get NBC news anchor Brian Williams to shut up. He is over the top on the anchor pomposity scale. I have to hit the mute button everytime he opens his mouth. He is NOT adding value on the commentary front. I almost heaved the remote at the television when he started nattering when the Danish team walked in. Gads....
- Those Chinese coats - obviously heavily influenced by the sleeping bag school of design.
- Great Britain - 007 wannabes???
- Love the long 3-d alps skirts that the country name sign bearers are wearing. I'm thinking that Cheri may want to take notes as we work through my wedding dress design.
- Ooooh the Indian hats aren't bad.
- Iran just marched in. Can we please put a sock in Brian Williams mouth???? Gads I was just typing this when Israel walked. Williams needs more than a sock. Maybe a muzzle.
- Oh God. The Kyrzgstan (sp?) hats. The Ski Boy thinks they look like upside down popcorn containers.
- One thing you gotta say - everyone looks so happy when they walk in. Well except for maybe the Moldovan team.
- OMIGOD. The Mongolian hats. They're pretty amazing. Several animals died for each hat!
- Oooh - I'd wear a Norway hat. The little Viking horns are really cute.
- Check out those Russian white go-go boots. But very nice wool hats. But how come "RUSSIA" is spelled in English instead of Cyrillic?
- Bob Costas on the other hand is actually funny. His running commentary on the disco music is pretty entertaining.
- Call me a homey, but I like the USA hats. Actually, I really like the entire outfit. I'd wear one of those jackets.
- I want a pair of the Swedish mittens.
- I've figured it out - Brian Williams reminds me of John Kerry - and not in a good way.
- Uh Oh. The Italians must have been inspired by last weekend's duct tape ball.
- Ahhhh....Relief. NBC has swapped out Brian Williams for Mary Cirillo. She's good. Maybe she should be the NBC News Anchor.
- Now that the nations are done marching in, we've moved into the second half of the ceremonies. And here's where it gets TWFW (too wierd for words). Just what is up with that clamshell thingie?
- Sigh....I spoke too soon. Brian Williams just started talking again.
- Oooooh - I think the Ferrari is making the Olympic rings!
9:11:44 PM 
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Demo 06 just wrapped up. I simply have to have a Pleo. Although I am worried that Tyge would kill it. :-)
10:46:58 AM
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Alaska has 11 athletes in the 2006 Winter Games. And we're all very excited. As Beth Bragg's great column so perfectly describes, Alaska is a small state and we all personally know our athletes. I've purchased shoes from Kikkan and we've all run into Scott Gomez at one place or another. The entire Steer family is a blast - Lew Friedman's (Lew!!!) profile of Rachael was a total hoot - after she's done with biathalon, she wants her own program on the Food Channel entitled "Kill It and Cook It".
The US Women's Hockey Goalie is Pam Dreyer. I work with Pam's mom, Margo. Margo and I often trade doggie pictures and stories. And I actually helped Margo with a GSM cellphone selection for the Turin trip.
Alaska is such a small town.
UPDATE: The news broke last night on Kikkan's failed hemoglobin test. I sincerely hope that it wasn't doping. The results were boarderline high and as this article states, there's an actual reasonable cause for the high reading. I hope so, I just can't think of Kikkan in the same light as Barry Bonds.
10:23:55 AM
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As I noted in yesterday's post, we had quite the storm. The poor Ski Boy was scheduled to fly to Homer early yesterday morning. His trip didn't go quite as planned. Here's his note:
As Napoleon Dynamite says "It's only the worst day of my life!". So, here's my day: the flight out of Anc kept being delayed cause of weather in Homer. Finally we ended up flying to Kenai and driving to Homer. It was incredibly turbulent crossing the inlet. Almost got sick. Near white out conditions for the drive. Here in Homer it has turned to rain--and is very windy! Ugh.
The wind here in town was also quite nasty. The building next to our warehouse also had the worst day of its life:
It looks like a sideways can opener went after the building.
The firefighters are certainly impressed.
The owner of the poor little white truck is a GCI employee. I'll bet this wasn't one of the better days of his life either.
10:02:08 AM
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