Incommunicado

Sometimes, when you have to travel you end up in nice hotels that like to charge you for everything.  Including wifi.  Including access to their ‘courtesy’ business center computers.  It continues to baffle me that you can get free internet in a Motel 6 but in higher end joints they gouge you mercilessly.  So I missed a few days, including…

• Reminiscing on the 30th anniversary of U.S. Hockey’s Miracle on Ice.  NBC and ESPN had plenty of retrospective programming, which (despite the inherent cheese factor) still manages to give me goosebumps when Al Michaels makes his famous call.  The 80 Olympics were the first games I was old enough to pay attention to and, I remember how excited my Mom and Dad were with the hockey team, explaining how unlikely and difficult it all was.  Those Olympics were also when I started to get interested in geography and history.  All the maps and flags and the human interest stories detailing life in Finland or Switzerland for those athletes really piqued my interest and made me a lifelong Olympics fan.