Day Four: Before I get started, I’d like you all to read Kelly’s story of the one-legged man in the Tough Man competition. I’ll wait.
Back? Okay. A couple of planned stories fell through for me Sunday, so I had to scramble to do a piece I’d planned for later. Many, many thanks to Vis10n for coming through for me when I needed some help on my volunteers piece.
Have I mentioned that the ancient Dell laptop the paper gave me takes roughly 15 seconds to switch between IE windows? Well, it does.
Went to a Mormon church service Sunday morning. I’ll admit that it was for sniper-journalist reasons: I was hoping the Olympics would come up at some point, at least to the degree that I might be able to turn it into a brief story. No dice, but a pleasant service nonetheless. Chatted with the LDS media folks afterward, where I learned a bit more about the Nauvoo Temple rebuilding, which would be a great story for a religion writer to do. Spent the afternoon interviewing volunteers for the Monday story, then headed up to tiny Farmington for the Olympic rodeo. Quite an experience, but no time to write about it now — I’ve got to write my story about it for tomorrow’s paper. Another classic Olympic day, working until 11 p.m.; I hope that ceases to be the norm sometime soon.