Rob and I are watching the Olympics on the Canadian channel, which airs events mostly live. Last night's women's figure skating, we watched twice -- once on CBC, where it was carried live and was over by 9PM (an important consideration for us left coasters) and then on NBC where it was tape delayed and finished at 11:30.

I was thinking Sasha Cohen had a very good chance to win after the short prgram. I hadn't seen Sarah Hughes before. Watching Michelle Kwan, she seemed older, more confident...but less joyful. I felt the same about Irina (I won't butcher her last name); the body was there but some of the spirit seemed lacking.

In prior years, the CBC did a good job of showcasing everything; this year, it feels like they caught some of that nationalism from the USA as now they are concentrating on the Canadian competitors. When we watched the CBC version of figure skating, they showed the Canadian skater, then turned to the ice hockey celebrations as their team had beaten the Americans to win gold before returning for the final six skaters. During the NBC bradcast, they showed all the skaters in those last two groups. Of course, it might have been the other way around if we had won in hockey!

I ordered a new keyboard which should arrive in the next few days. It's a split keyboard in Dvorak so I don't have to use my poor Dell keyboard. I had to flip some of the keys upsidedown so they'd fit in the Dvorak configuration and it feels funny. At least the keys work though. I had an older keyboard from an earlier Dvorak attempt and the keys stuck, which made typing difficult.