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08/14/2004 Archived Entry: "Olympics"

We started watching the opening ceremony of the Olympics last night. The problem is NBC decided that people will stay up really late and they didn't start the broadcast until 8:00pm. Considering it's a 4 hour ceremony, that posed a problem. So we watched half last night and finished the other half this afternoon. Why they don't start them even one hour earlier, I don't know. Plus, I'm already tired of Bob Costas. He spoke over so much of the coverage instead of just letting the viewers soak it in and enjoy. I mean, he had commentary going when Bjork was singing, he told us what she was singing about instead of letting us hear her sing. It was aggravating to say the least. During the day today I just kind of left the Olympics going and we watch it sporadically. Tabitha is enjoying it all so far. I figure we'll really study the history of the Olympics in 4 years when Tabitha will be a bit older and able to appreciate it more. I do have a book on hold at the library of Greek Myths, but we'll see if they manage to get it in for me before the Closing Ceremonies.