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Olympics Adveture: The Judo
The day after my football adventure at Wembley I had a single ticket to see judo. I know jack squat about judo, so I spent the morning watching it on TV and trying to understand. What I eventually figured out was that each weight class takes up 1 day of competition. In the morning there are 32 teams that compete in a knockout setting, then those ( Read more... ) -
Olympics Adventure: The Football
[Oh dear, it seems that time has been flying here in the UK and I am several days behind on updating this travel blog! Please bear with me as I slowly climb back on top of thigs ( Read more... ) -
Olympics Adventure: The Phone
I have a UK phone number! It's 07528-808-992 (I think). I can't remember exactly how the Brits divvy up their digits/hyphens. And if anyone calls from the US, they need a country code. Just throwing that out there in case of emergency. Unless you're one of my London/UK friends, in which case I'm throwing it out there so you people can invite ( Read more... ) -
Olympics Adventure: The Transition
As expected, things have calmed down a bit after my first couple days of Olympic madness. I have 2 days in a row with no Olympics events. Yesterday I took advantage of the lull to catch up on some much-needed sleep. Sure, I slept away half the day, but I'm on vacation and it felt amazing. I took my dear sweet time getting out of the house, ( Read more... ) -
Olympics Adventure: The Beginning
Sooooo... TIRED... and out of it... Perfect time to do a crapload of writing ( Read more... ) -
Olympics Adventure: The Arrival
Well, I've arrived here in London, and the Olympic spirit is in full force. I was a bit worried at the beginning of the trip when, as we sat in the packed plane at the end of the runway, the flight attendant came on and told us we were heading back to the gate because of a technical issue and because of an issue with a passenger. Umm... what? ( Read more... ) -
Olympics Adventure: The Prep
It's 1:40am, and I'm ALMOST packed. Sort of. I'm just waiting on my last bit of P90X videos to copy to a thumb drive so I can bring those along during the trip. Prepping and packing for this trip was way more involved than I'd expected. I have a new suitcase, and it is tiny. I purposefully picked it to force me to pack light so I have an ( Read more... ) -
Olympics Adventure: The Plan
At some point back in the year 2005 or 2006 or thereabouts, as I sat with a group of Oxford volleyball teammates in either a pub or a gym or a Chinese restaurant, while we discussed the fact that London had just been selected to host the 2012 Summer Olympics, I apparantly (possibly while drunk?) suggested (possibly as a joke?) that we should all ( Read more... ) -
Farewell, Non-Hacking Stalkers!
Dear Stalkers ( Read more... ) -
LONDON!!! (And another The Office Reference)
HOME SWEET HOME! I'm back in Oxford after 4 glorious days in London! So I had a very busy few days, which means I'll probably get sick of typing and will have to finish this later, but whatevs ( Read more... )