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In tribute to my new favorite podcast / imaginary radio program, TBTL, I’m stealing one of their segments for blog purposes. It’s called Awesome / Not Awesome (insert sound clips here). It’s a segment in which they discuss things in the news that are either Awesome or Not Awesome. Pretty self explanatory eh? Let’s jump to it.

Awesome: The Winter Olympics have arrived! I’m an unrepentant lover of the Olympics. I’ll even watch the “boring stuff” like cross country skiing and biathlon. I love the stories, the cheese, the winners, the losers…everything. If I had to choose, I’d say I like the Winter Olympics more than the Summer. Awesome.

Not Awesome: The death of the Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili. The luge track at Whistler is one of the fastest ever designed. In the World Championships a luger hit 95 mph at the finish line. When Nodar crashed into an unpadded steel pole near the track he was going about 90 mph. Track officials have taken a stance that Nodar was to blame for his own death by not compensating for a bad line he took on the track. Definitely not awesome.

Awesome: I’m a little late to the game on this. I’m going to put Indian food in the awesome column. Last week I made mulligatawny soup from scratch. Saturday night I had curry. I’m down with it man. A very solid awesome.

Not Awesome: This morning I woke up. I went to the bathroom to start the shower. As I turned the knob, I heard a distinct cracking sound and then the knob just spun. No water came out. This is not the first time it has happened. The other bathroom in our bedroom had the same thing happen…twice. Since I didn’t fix the bedroom shower last time, there was no backup plan. I had to go to the garage, break out the toolbox and use pliers to turn on the shower. After I got out I remembered Kristin had a lady doctor appointment today and would probably want to use the shower. I drove down to Home Depot, bought replacement knobs, then came home and installed them. I was only 45 minutes late to work. Definitely not a good way to start a work week. Definitely not awesome.

Awesome: Too Beautiful to Live, or TBTL. TBTL is a podcast that started out as a radio show on KIRO in Seattle. It’s hosted by Luke Burbank out of his home in Seattle. Appearing are Jen “Flash” Andrews and “Japan’s #1 mixer”, Sean DeTore. These guys, they are my kind of guys. If you are interested you can find them at TBTL.net or in the iTunes store. Huge awesome.