Great Olympic Day Number Two!

Did, the usual work thing in the morning. Since Andrew was coming in today
instead of Tomorrow we had lunch together at Oportos. He took some pictures
of me in my snazzy new hat, which I will post as soon as I get a copy of
them from him. We were supposed to go out to dinner with Chrissy, but that
got dropped at the last minute - as did our plans to go to the zoo on
Saturday.

Andrew party pooped his way home, as I headed into the city to get some photos
of the torch running through the city. I got a great location and snapped a
few pictures. I then hopped outta the croud and ran further up a head, and took
some more pictures. I did this three or four times until I reached Town Hall -
where I spent the next 4 hours. Town Hall steps is in the dead centre of the
city, and its where Kristy and I meet for lunch every month or so. So for today
and tomorrow, the Olympic Flame is staying at Town Hall in this nice cauldron
thingydoo. So I took some more snaps, including some of the singers and Town
Hall itself. The police presence there was overwhelming. Cops on horses, bikes,
cars, Harley motorcycles. It was a great experience, everyone was chanting the
"Aussie, aussie, aussie!!! Oy, oy, oy!" thingy. And of course, everyone was
singing "Waltzing Matilda".

Yesterday I volunteered to work on the olympics.com website - they were still
looking for help. The people from IBM where supposed to call/e-mail me today.
I am a little dissapointed that they diden't, I was kinda hoping I would be
able to spend some time helping out. I have a big regret for not volunteering
my time for the Olympics, it seems like I am missing out on a lot of fun. I will
definately be doing so when (if) the Olympics come to Toronto in '08.

Here's the sad news - the 40 or so pictures that I took today, I lost them. I
lost the picture card with the photos of everything except for town hall. It's
not really the card that I miss, but the photos that were on it. It does have
my e-mail address on it, so I am hoping that someone finds it, but I am not
getting my hopes up. So I will probably buy a new one sometime next week,
because my 8MB one can only hold about 12 photos.

I am still trying to get my hands on some tickets to ANYTHING - I so want to go!

I got so much sun today, I feel sleepy - I will leave you with some interesting
facts from the Toronto Star:

At the first dress rehearsal [of the opening ceremonies], police confiscated six

knives, two paper cutters and a metal nail file. Also on the banned list: glass

bottles, flagpoles, horns, whistles and those lethal umbrellas.




Tiny phone receivers, for example, have been installed under seats and on poles

throughout the stadium to handle the huge number of calls expected to be made

from mobiles during the ceremony and subsequent events.

The torch relay was actually the inspiration of Adolf Hitler, for the Berlin

Games in 1936. One of the Fuhrer's better ideas.

Foster's brewery, studying the inventory of suds consumed thus far, with nothing

yet to celebrate, has realized they may have underestimated the Olympian thirst.

Thus they've cranked up production by 30 per cent, supplying 50,000 kegs and 6

million cans of brewski for Homebush alone.


That's enough to fill five olympics swimming pools!

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