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So, you found your way here, eh?  Well, lemme tell you why I moved to LiveJournal.  Well, I have this nifty FireFox extension called Deep Sender that allows me to update without actually going to the LJ site.  That combines with this other extension called FoxyTunes that controls my Winamp without me having to switch to it.  It’s really handy because Deep Sender will detect what I’m listening to through FoxyTunes, so I don’t have to type in what I’m listening to.  The other reason I’m over here is because CMSU’s servers tend to be very inefficient and untrustworthy.  That’s the reason I haven’t updated recently, I couldn’t access the server to FTP my updated files.  So, I decided that LJ would be the best choice and if you guys feel like responding to my posts… well you can.  So there you go.

Well, what’s been going on?  I’ve been watching the XX Winter Olympics from Torino, Italy.  Germany has two gold medals so far in the 20km Biathalon and the Nordic Combined.  The U.S. is also at two golds in 3000m Speed Skating and Men’s Snowboard Halfpipe.  Now keep in mind that these might have changed since I last watched the Olympics, but I record them and watch them later in the day so I don’t have to listen to the stupid talking heads pretending to know what they’re talking about.  Last night was a bad night for U.S. Short Track Speed Skating and a good night for South Korea.  Apolo Anton Ohno was pushed out of the finals because of an honest mistake he made in the qualifying round.  He accidently touched the back of a Chinese skater’s skate and knocked himself off balance and back to fifth.  South Korea took gold and silver in the final round with China taking Bronze.  A couple of days ago when Germany won their gold medals, it was Michael Greis’s amazing skiing and more than amazing shooting that won him gold in the 20km Biathlon.  Hitting 19 of 20 targets and skating 20km in less than 45min… that’s a man.  In the Nordic Combined, Georg Hettich flew over 100m at the ski jump for the lead spot in the 14km cross country skiing to win the gold.  One U.S. winner is of mention and that’s Shaun White’s gold medal run.  Starting off with a HUGE frontside air into a big McTwist comboed with a frontside 1080 to a fakie 1080 into a nice frontside 900 to a backside 900.  The execution was perfect with nice pumps off the flats to grab him a 46.8 of 50 on his first run.  When nobody topped it, his second run was a victory lap.  One of the best halfpipe runs I’ve ever seen.  It’s also pretty sad that Michelle Kwan withdrew from competition after pulling her groin at a practice.

I think that’s enough of an Olympic update.  I think I’m gonna start snowboarding too.  Yeah, yeah, I got the idea from watching the Olympics and I have no delusions of being any good, but I think it’ll be fun.  It’s something that I’ve always wanted to do and since my sister started doing it, I want to do it even more.  Luckily there’s a decent slope near Kansas City, granted it’s a fake slope, but still a slope.  So if any of you ski or board and wanna join us sometime, well that’d be cool.  Looking at you Mike.  Well, that’s all for right now.  I might update before I go to VisionCon this weekend, but no promises.  I’ll at least give you a post-VisionCon report.  Aufwiedersehen.