On to Vancouver

I'm a pushover for the Olympics, costume critiques notwithstanding.

The unpredictability is amazing - skaters pulling out and falling down, skiers who'd been featured on the covers of national magazines failing to medal at all, athletes from countries who'd never won before surprising themselves and the favourites by pulling ahead at the last moment, and insane athletes throwing themselves down ice tracks head first. They closed the schools in Newfoundland when Brad Gushe and his curling rink won the gold medal, the first for a Newfoundlander. (The last time they closed the schools, the Pope was in town.) Even the touching Tim Horton's commercials, featuring the dad who never knew that his father came to every one of his hockey games.

Sigh. I wonder how preparations are going in Beijing?