TRIVIA

Three more days until the shortest day of the year, after that it will be all uphill for the next six months.

Four more days before the Oh Hellers descend upon my house for the semi-annual tournament.

Ten more days before the New Year. Ten days in which outside pressures will most likely prevent writing this blog; but do check if either local, national, or international happenings might merit some comment.

In the realm of trivia did you know that the Sochi Game’s Olympic Torch has travelled further than any other torch in the history of the games.

It has had the most flameouts, I believe 12 so far, and once a cigarette lighter was used to relight it, not the backup flame. Two additional shutting of the flame took place on a trip under water, and o of course on its visit to the Space Station.

Sochi by the way is at about the same laditude as Boston. It is and was a Soviet workers summer vacation resort. It has a Stoney beach not sandy like our shore.

 The beach at Sochi

In the Soviet era (60s)