Google was down

I’m writing this post in Word and will post it when I get access back to the blog. It seems that most of Google is down at the moment, and the blog site is run by Google. Its currently 6:50 local time. We’re sitting outside the big room, they won’t let us in until 7. We’ve been here for about ten minutes already. We beat pretty much every person but the campus staff doing setup. The guy who run’s CSU Fullteron’s debate team walked in about 5 minutes ago. We’ve set up the printer in the hall and are printing Jim and Jmart’s work from last night. It’s kind of funny, a group of us including me, Nick, Tim, and Jim are all sitting in a row along this stone bench thing, laptops all lined up. I imagine we look neat to the rest of the few people who are just now starting to trickle in.

I think they’re starting to let us into the room now. They’re setting up the projectors that project the pairing onto large screens as the match-ups are announced. Most everyone is furiously at work. Berkeley just rolled in.

Breakfast today is way better than yesterday, where they had gross breakfast food. Now they have delicious cinnamon rolls, crescent rolls, and coffee cake among other things. I’m highlighting cards for Kevin – Jim’s cards which were pretty sweet, especially given the crapiness of the disad they were meant to answer. Thanks Jim!

Seriously, Jim Lyle is a total bro. Most of the last few years he’s come to help out our teams at the NDT. The only time he didn’t was last year when Clarion’s Rob and Tay made school history with a clutch first-time qualifier to the NDT. But this year, with Clarion minus a varsity team, we get the pleasure of Jim’s coaching. The only draw back is that Jim can’t judge you afterwards. It’s a pretty tough trade-off—Jim’s coaching when it REALLY matters, or Jim’s judging during the whole rest of the year? Thankfully he can still judge our younger teams, which benefit from his wisdom at most tournaments they attend. So here’s to Jim Lyle – a dude, a bro, and a friend.