{"id":197,"date":"2016-08-19T08:03:38","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T11:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aerendel.ca\/jdaerendel\/?p=197"},"modified":"2016-08-19T08:58:43","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T11:58:43","slug":"yesterdays-olympic-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aerendel.ca\/jdaerendel\/yesterdays-olympic-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Yesterday’s Olympic News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friday, August 19th, 2016 — 12\u00b0C \/ 53\u00b0F With the sun shining golden light on nearby neighbour’s houses in Atlantic Canada @ 7:18 am — Today is Bill Clinton’s Birthday —<\/em><\/p>\n

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I really was inspired to smile and think there just might be hope for the human race when Usain Bolt and Andre DeGrasse smiled and hugged after coming in first and second in their semi final 200 meter sprint.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

— I am no fan of testosterone-poisoned athletes staring and glaring at each other, hoping to ‘psyche-out’ their opponents before games or ‘contests’ in which they try to prove themselves egotistically superior to everybody else in their sport.<\/p>\n

— It was good to see the first and second place sprinters in the semi-finals looking like brothers who get along well enjoying themselves –<\/p>\n

— Usain Bolt, a Jamaican, has now made history, winning gold medals in 100 meter and 200 meter sprints three times in a row. Tonight, if the Jamaicans win a relay race Usain Bolt will make further history turning his “Triple Double” Gold into a “Triple Triple”.<\/p>\n

— And if you understand the above blurb about triple doubles and triple triples, you’re either a dedicated follower of Olympic athletics or someone who has a quick and nimble mind who enjoys learning anything and everything you can. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

*** & When my friend, Doug, invited me to help him and his friends at “Aerendel” Communications with web problems he was having ( he’s dating one of my favourite cousins ) I hadn’t realized that there was another Jim who actually originated the web site(s) and ‘owns’ the name ‘Aerendel’ – which he says came into his mind as a mind-worm { something like an ‘ear worm’ } the first time he read “The Hobbit” by JRR Tolkein – and stayed with him until he thought “a small secluded valley in the sky” was a decent description for a web site, and later, a multi-player game. [ Castles in the Air? \/ A naive vision of “Heaven”? ] So I’m trying to relieve a bit of confusion by admitting that my birth certificate says, “Hermann James Van Arden” and too many people made fun of \u00a0“Her-Mann!” and “H. James Van Arden” sounded too much like one of the Watergate crooks. So I asked Doug if “Jim d’Aerendel at Aerendel dot ca” sounded like a decent email name and he smiled. And apparently, the other “Jim at aerendel dot c.a.” didn’t mind – but a couple of my friends wondered why there were two different Jims here – So, now I’ll declare myself as, “h.j.d’a” and hope that doesn’t fry too many brains.<\/p>\n

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— hjd’a —<\/em><\/p>\n

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