Centennial Olympic Games

This is the big 10th Anniversary Weekend for the Olympics, although the actually anniversary date isn't until next week. There is going to be a free concert starting around 7 PM in Centennial Olympic Park, headlined by Trisha Yearwood, who sang a song called "The Flame" on the scaffolding below the Olympic Cauldron as the flame was extinguished at the closing ceremonies (& before a 2nd line parade, NOLA-style). FYI, Trisha is from Monticell (pronounced Mont-E-sell-O), which is about 100 miles SE of Atlanta.

Also, the Atlanta History Center is opening up its Olympic 2-story wing on Saturday & it'll be free all day long. Apparently it has the only complete collection of Olympic torches from 1936 (when Hitler started the tradition) to the present. Very, very exciting.

No tropical news except that there is a wave that COULD form into something, to the point where the National Hurricane Center has given it an investigation number. The wind shear is supposed to die down in the tropics & the water is already warm enough, so we could be looking at Beryl and maybe Chris, either one of which could be a hurricane, by the end of the month.

As you probably know, World Cup has finally ended with Italy winning. Think there are still some folks singing Fratelli d'Italia even today? Italy has had a good year between this & the Torino Olympics. The national anthem is catchy too, even if it has only been officially the anthem since 1990.