Balafon

The Winter Olympics start in two weeks, and there is much activity at the Vancouver airport. The sound of high-powered turbine aircraft engines fills the air.

My office is right under the approach path to runway 26L, so I see CF-18 Hornet fighter jets

CF-18

and CH-146 Griffin helicopters

CH-146

flying around several times a day.

Rumor has it that two Halifax-class frigates

HMCS Vancouver

will be anchored offshore to provide extra air defense.

The Averter of Evil, the Mouse-Catcher, the Delphinian, the Radiant God, the Watcher of the Heavens, graciously answered his priestess’s prayer and granted his gift of divine fire today to the nation of Canada.

He had withheld his favour from the past three Winter Olympics, so Canadians should feel especially εὐδαιμονίαι.