I'm SomeGuy, and I may be the original Vancouverite here at theO. Now that we're this year's Olympic City, I think I'll share my night where I actually went somewhere Olympic-esque.
Yesterday a guy at work mentioned Our Lady Peace was going to do a free concert at the Richmond O-Zone that night (the same place where we sniped Tamara Taggart with our dragon). I had a keen interest in catching this, as it was as good a chance as any to get out for a show. Couldn't get any friends who wanted to go, though, so I feared I might not make it . . .
. . . so while online I changed my MSN tag to "Who wants to go see Our Lady Peace tonight?" Aside from one Korean idiot who said he didn't want to (3 hours' distance notwithstanding) and one loveable Torontonian who would have loved to go (again distance notwithstanding), I did get a ping from one guy I knew from work.
Then he asked, "are you watching hockey right now?" Then I went "oh crap! Canada vs Switzerland!" I quickly changed over from women's snowboarding (I like the flannel, Amercs!) to see the score 2-2 and in overtime.
Holy crap. Canada, you can not afford to lose to the Swiss right now!
Overtime ends still in a tie. On to a shootout . . . which goes on with 0-0 out of all five shooters. Holy crap, this nuts.
And then that's when team Canada's golden boy Sidney Crosby became the hero and buried one in the back of the Swiss net. And then Brodeur bricked the next Swiss attempt. And then a nation exhaled. That was a crazy game . . . really exciting.
Also, I had newfound energy to want to go out and get my Olympic spirit on, even if I was just a lone individual in a sea of other Canadians.
So yeah, I tore into chat to go apeshit a little. Had to do my part for my country, y'know? And then I was off to catch a bus down into Richmond for a free show - there was no way in hell I was gonna drive . . . and off to Richmond I went . . .
