Entries from September 2007

September 22, 2007

Baku: Mickey D’s Baby!

Today was great, that’s the only way to describe it. Well, it was great in the sense of my personal experience in walking around Baku, but for our women’s freestylers, it wasn’t so hot.
Jenny Wong, Leigh Jaynes and Marcie Van Dusen didn’t medal and the U.S. was shut out on the sixth day of competition [...]

September 20, 2007

Baku: Death by Taxi

Here I sit, thankful I’m alive.
No, I haven’t been kidnapped or beheaded by the locals like some of my friends thought. No, I haven’t been walking around like Borat going “HIGH FIVE,” to everyone I see.
It’s been an adventure here, but to be quite honest, my first overseas trip has not been a complete disaster, [...]

September 18, 2007

Baku: Stupid Internet

It was about 6:00 a.m. back in the United States when Pat Tocci from the NWCA fired me an instant message.
“Did you update your notes on the semis or anything?”
Funny you should ask, I thought. For most of the morning, the internet was spotty, constantly dropping in and out with my FTP software program and [...]

September 17, 2007

Baku: Cluster-something

I’ve already lost count of what day it is. I just know that the 8:15 p.m. Sunday night NFL game was still on when I woke up this Monday morning in Baku at the glorious Hotel Absheron.
The day began overcast, but the ominous thing was that FILA was set to run a world championship in [...]

September 15, 2007

Baku: It’s Saturday, I think

It’s a rocking Saturday night here in Baku. For those of you reading this shortly after I post this, it’s about 9:30 p.m. in the Hotel Absheron and again, we’re in the lobby working on the wireless.
The “communications hub of the 2007 Worlds” is right here, just to the right of the entrance through the [...]