Well here I sit at work, day 3 of what will be 10 days straight....the light at the end of the tunnel is a week from today I will see all my kids and be packing up Bay to bring him home to Saskatoon and I can hardly wait...so with a Peewee tourney going on I'm not overly busy so I'm gonna blog about this, that and whatever I want....
Lets start with what everyone seems to be yaking about, the Olympics....first of all, Vancouver can't control the weather, and everyone on the IOC knew the weather trends there going in and in there defense with everything that has happened, had they known ahead of time they have said they would have still chosen Vancouver.....they didn't plan to make their track so fast that an inexperienced rider would crash and die, it was a sad, tragic accident....as for the Olympia machine, aka fancy Zamboni for the speed skating track, the Vanoc did not make the machine and whoever had held the Olympics this winter would have tried the machine it would have failed and the good old trusty Zamboni would have been brought in....the Olympic flame....ok so they didn't handle that great, but really it was out of safety reasons and had they left it open to whoever and someone had tried to climb it for a great pic for Facebook, and had fallen well that would have been a whole nother can of worms to open on them...people voiced their concerns, they made modifications and now can take a decent picture of it....the U.S. is running away with the medals and yet are running off at the mouth on how things are being run....there have been some great moments from many countries and more to come....as for Team Canada hockey, you know what, yes we expect gold but then again so does Russia, Czecks, USA, Sweden...and year after year we have Canadian and American coaches, coaching players from all countries and year after year after us leading by example we are being pushed to our limits, Canada wins in a shoot out and all we here is, "we need to make changes", in all reality the Russians are heavy fav's to win and they lost in a shootout last night so lets not all hit the panic button right away, we have a great team with multiple Stanley Cup champs on it, young, tough and arguably the two if not 3 top goaltenders in the league led by Marty Broeduer....who cares if the games are close....last time I checked a win is a win and great teams overcome adversity..
Well lets jump over to golf.....Tiger is back in the news...well not back in really, he's never left but today for the first time in 87 days Mr. Woods showed his face, in a very controlled environment and spoke to the public, his family, friends, fans and sponsors....cool, I for one was happy to see him, he didn't owe me any explanation or apology, really all I wanted to know was when is he going to golf again, seems he still doesn't know or at least never mentioned but did say he was coming back and I being a huge fan of the game and of Tigers, can't wait.....he'll be the same golfer and hopefully for his sake, a better, person, husband, and father....but I just want to see him rip the cover off the ball...
So, I wear a Livestrong band on my wrist, I have for 3 years...those of you who don't know, Livestrong is an organization set up by 7 time Tour de France winner, to raise funds and awareness for cancer research, he battled and won a ferocious battle against cancer and won his 7 titles after that....now I don't have cancer, nor do I have anyone close to me that has died from it but it affects so many people and having run in 3 Breast Cancer Run for the Cure's, I've gained some awareness as to how common this is and with 3 daughters, and ex wife and a beautiful girlfriend, it could hit anyone of them and I'd rather do my part sooner than later.
So my point being, my band broke the other day, snapped on me and although I always know it's there after time you always get used to wearing that ring, chain, or band....well I felt as if a part of me was missing when it broke, I bought it way back when on ebay and was back on there looking for more, the cost being about $5 Canadian with shipping....Sam and I happened to be in the mall a couple of days later and she pointed out a Livestrong table set up in the middle of the mall....I looked from a ways back and couldn't see what I wanted but didn't go up close, she did and called me over....they had a basket full of bands....I have never seen a Livestrong table set up anywhere, never mind the mall in Saskatoon...all they required was a donation for the bands so I put in $10....the total for 2 bands was $10 but this is what it would have cost me total on ebay and this all went to the Livestrong foundation so I was pretty pumped....
well that's enough rambling for now....off to end my day...
see ya when I see ya...
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