Well, there's only one show in the world at the moment - The Olympics. I have to say that was a truly stunning opening ceremony - apart from the whole 'what can we say about St Kitts and Nevis' dilemma the commentators have during the Parade of Nations. The best thing to do during that is figure out whether it's a good suit or a bad suit that the countries are wearing. Australia had a bright green jacket, which would have been OK, but there were white lines all over it - 'signifying the Southern Cross' apparently, but it just looked messy to me. The Kiwis came out in black tracksuits, with big silver ferns on one side - not the worst we could do, but hmm not the funkiest by a long shot.
Anyways, enough of the uniforms - can make cracks about that if I watch the replay later this morning LOL. There is just something about the Europeans, and how they do designs and costumes and concepts - Athens has been a very European opening, thinking along similar lines to Albertville and Barcelona. From what I remember of Nagano, that was OK as well, but Atlanta was all Gone With The Wind, Mark Twain, rah rah USA from memory. There were centaurs and stylistic cyclops I read now - just thought it was a head when I was watching it, that split up, it was apparently ten tonnes of marble and turned into looking inside the body and the brain and stuff - I will find some links lol, or if you are reading this and haven't been turned off by the Olympic theme you will probably already have seen it. And then, yes, the Greeks did the whole history thing, but did it in such a stylistic fashion - the colours of the costumes were just GORGEOUS. Oh, here's the piccies on the official website at least.
And although there were some fashion crimes in the athlete's outfits, thinking the Dutch ze plane ze plane white Panama suits and orange ties, the costume design came out again with the placard carriers - the girls that hold the nation's name in three languages thing, apparently inspired by Greek vases. Only about two thirds of the Aussie team actually marched, cos the others want to rest blah blah - yes, I know doing well at your event is a good thing, but for Chrissake this is the OLYMPICS. Even if I was swimming two hours after the ceremony and I couldn't rest in between hmm, but then again, I'm not an elite athlete, I would be one of these make up the numbers, try not to finish last kind of people LOL.
Three teams I was looking out for in the parade - the Aussies, the Kiwis and the Canadians. Actually, can't remember what the Canucks were wearing, oh, it was a Canada 04 kind of tourist Tshirt thing, ick LOL. A lot of the African teams have nice designs for their uniforms, and very colourful. LOL and one of the nicest funniest things about the Olympics is all the politicians and dignitaries making fools out of themselves on international TV when their team gets on - thinking Prince Albert of Monaco here LOL - onya Al!
But yes, the Greeks put on a very European show. And I mean that in the good style sense rather than the cheese eating surrender monkeys sense LOL, not that there is anything wrong with France. It could only be European, they even had Bjork singing LOL. Albertville, Barcelona, Athens, good progression if you will.
And then I know that there's nothing that can be shown cos the competition hasn't really gotten underway yet, but SURELY there was something better they could follow up an impressive opening ceremony with instead of repeats of MASH?
And with the rest of the week just gone - since we had Wednesday off (city show day) went out on Tuesday, for what Jo seemingly ironically called 'swifties' - met her girlfriend Janet - yes, another one that plays for the other team - and had a good night, Lisa left at about six thirty or so and Mel stayed on til umm 11 - Janet and Jo went home and then Mel and I discovered our trains weren't for another half hour, so yeah, at 12.30 or so got home eek. But it was a day off the next day so not all bad. Wednesday I didn't feel bad at all actually, but just had a quiet one at home rather than going to Ekka, playing computer games and the like.
The work we have been doing this week has been quite frustrating - not only because we are getting two versions of what to do from two different experts lol, but the whole thing of we investigate the thing for about half an hour or three quarters of an hour and then only then find the trace that our section doesn't actually do it and forward to someone else. Grr, but that week is over LOL, thank goodness.
We got told where we will be going at the end of training and what our split may actually be - the specific placement still has to be signed off on, but we are all going to Corporate, Large Business, that's the customers with spend between 500K and a mill. New things to learn LOL, MORE of them, and the likely split will be Lexie and Sharon in one group, Jo, Lisa, Mel, Wayne and Rachel in the second, and myself, Kimberley and Anne in the third. Wonder if that was randomised or whether it was a method sort of thing.
And then last thing to mention was going out quickly last night. Not a big night, but first time we had gotten to see Wayne at the pub LOL, and Lisa had to go quickly had an evening with a friend planned, so fairly early on it was down to Mel and I, and I wasn't going to stick around long - mm, Red Rooster LOL. Got called over by Ceri (pronounced with a K), a long termer on our floor, so had to have just one more LOL - had a good convo, I have actually met someone from Mount Isa LOL, and she was going to watch all the softball at the Olympics.
Will get on later in the weekend, do a news and Olympic wrap up no doubt - mmm Olympics, I have been following it soooooo much already - Jo came over to ask a work question yesterday morning, vaguely mentioned the Olympics and I was off with all the results already LOL.
Later taters
Paul
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