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More Signs Of The Apocalypse
Jan. 1st, 2013 10:15 pm1 - There were 5 (five!!) women in the Vienna Philharmonic
2 - A Brit came ahead of a Russian and a Swiss in a cross-country skiing race.
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More completely, I had a blast watching Jools's Hootenanny last night as I always do. I would have felt sorry about making the mothership and grandmothership sit through it but the Dubliners (or rather, survivors and friends) were on so the mothership was happy and none of the other channels offered anything that she would have enjoyed more. There's really nothing on for people my Nan's age any more. Much though I like him, Graham Norton is not Grandma-suitable.
My Mum got me up to watch the Neu Jahrs Konzert this morning, which was pleasingly placid. Not sure about the second set of ballet though. The nearest theme that Mum and I could come up with was "ghostly weddings", which I suspect wasn't the intention.
After that came the 2nd of the Four Hills, where the Austrians were once again conspired against, particularly Wolfgang Loitzl. Not that I can particularly object to this set of Norwegians doing well because they are grade A adorable. It's just ... damn it, I'm Austrian, of course I want no-one but Austrians to win.
Following that came the cross-country with the aforementioned sign of the apocalypse. I then went upstairs to do a little fact checking, which lead to some wiki editing. The articles for Austrian ski-jumpers are sadly under-tended so I started to do some adding of material from the German language wiki. I enjoy that kind of thing entirely too much.
Then I watched the World's Strongest Man final which I enjoyed as I tend to. Well done Žydrūnas Savickas.
2 - A Brit came ahead of a Russian and a Swiss in a cross-country skiing race.
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More completely, I had a blast watching Jools's Hootenanny last night as I always do. I would have felt sorry about making the mothership and grandmothership sit through it but the Dubliners (or rather, survivors and friends) were on so the mothership was happy and none of the other channels offered anything that she would have enjoyed more. There's really nothing on for people my Nan's age any more. Much though I like him, Graham Norton is not Grandma-suitable.
My Mum got me up to watch the Neu Jahrs Konzert this morning, which was pleasingly placid. Not sure about the second set of ballet though. The nearest theme that Mum and I could come up with was "ghostly weddings", which I suspect wasn't the intention.
After that came the 2nd of the Four Hills, where the Austrians were once again conspired against, particularly Wolfgang Loitzl. Not that I can particularly object to this set of Norwegians doing well because they are grade A adorable. It's just ... damn it, I'm Austrian, of course I want no-one but Austrians to win.
Following that came the cross-country with the aforementioned sign of the apocalypse. I then went upstairs to do a little fact checking, which lead to some wiki editing. The articles for Austrian ski-jumpers are sadly under-tended so I started to do some adding of material from the German language wiki. I enjoy that kind of thing entirely too much.
Then I watched the World's Strongest Man final which I enjoyed as I tend to. Well done Žydrūnas Savickas.
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