Well thanks to Wikipedia and a question from Dave D I now know that Canada is sucking this year at the Olympics. This post is in no way trying to rub the Canadian athletes noses in the fact that Canada has really underperformed this year. But we have. When you look at the table below remember that the Olympics in LA in 1984 was the year that the Russkies boycotted after the US and others boycotted in 1980, tit for tat.

Here is the list for past years even though this year we have no medals so far. Apparently there will be more medals, including some Olympic medals for Canada this week. I for one will be watching.

Usually it seems that Canada does a lot better at the Olympics but this year? Not so good. I am not sure why. Actually the Winter Olympics are much better for us since there are many more months of winter in this country than Summer months.

Anyway someone please let me know without giving into government bashing as to why we have sucked it so hard this year so far.

Again don’t try to blame the athletes! They train for years and years with no income to try to win a medal, they are not to blame as individuals at all.

Beijing 2008 Olympic Games

I have been watching the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games for about a week now and man it has been great on the HDTV. I recently moved as you can see from two posts down and one of the things that I have been saying for years is that I really wanted to watch sports, especially tennis and the US Open in HD…

Well during the move I made a play on my wife that I wanted to move to Satellite. Once that was in the bag I worked on getting a PVR and sadly our old big screen would not work with a dual tuner PVR unless it would work in HD.

One sale, two store and I had a 42 inch LCD and now the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games are on and in two weeks tennis.

Good for me.

I am a Twitter user, actually I use TwitterFox in Firefox to constantly get comments from people across the internet and am starting to know the 120 or so people that I follow very well.

In real life I talk to 3 other people at home, 15 or so people at work on a daily basis and every week I talk to another couple of family members.

So, does this mean that the internet and Twitter are my biggest family and friends. That isn’t just boring but a bit more loserish than it should be

Well for the third time in four years I am again preparing to move. This time out of Calgary and into Airdrie I have to wonder how many moves I have in my over the next 10 years because this is starting to become old hat.

Just last year we moved up into the north east quadrant of Calgary and thought that renting a house cheap would be great, little did we know that we would be screwed by a school system that would love to have my wife drive the kids 5 minutes to a pickup spot so that a school bus can take my 4 and 8 year old kids to a school way the hell away from my house.

Why is it that you can have a major Canadian city have a school board that couldn’t give a crap about the kids that are going to the schools in the city. I have a school down the street that the kids can’t get into because people that want to go there have their friends pretend that they are living in their house. So because of that my kids are screwed.

Have I worked that rant through? I don’t know.

Anyway just suffice to say that the Calgary Board of Education that has not looked after my kids needs is hopefully forever gone from my life.

Back to the move. I have movers coming in to move the big stuff on Tuesday and then I have a cheap moving truck that my wife and I will use to get the rest of the boxes on Wednesday. Then we will be moved, cleanup on Thursday and I think we are out of Calgary…..