The Olympics

Apropos of nothing, I just noticed that I have birds on my blog.  If you look just to the right, there are some  birds flapping around.  If you stare long enough, they move.

I have been watching the Olympics.  I saw the archery, which was interesting enough that I tried to figure out what one of those cool bows cost.  It took longer than my 2 minute concentration limit so I gave up and don't know what they cost, but it looks easy and I think I could do it with maybe a couple hours of practice.

I like the soccer recap.  I don't want to watch a two hour match where nothing happens, but the recap is pretty good.  I don't think I could do that.  They run a lot and it looks hard.

I must say, I am glad they put the synchronized diving in and took out baseball.  Baseball is popular in Asia (Japan, Taiwan, S Korea) North America (Canada, US, Mexico) The Caribbean (Dominican, Puerto Rico,) South America (all thirteen of them) and who knows where else.  Australia maybe. Synchronized diving is popular in maybe two villages in China that don't get TV.  That's it.  Nobody else likes synchronized diving.  So good thing the Olympics have that and no baseball.

I am tired of beach volleyball.  Sure, they are good looking and sweaty.  I get that, but do I need to watch some sweaty dudes for 2 hours a day hit a volleyball into a net?

I have the Lake Meridian tri coming up.  I am dreading that.  If I dropped a few pounds, it might not be so bad.  My wife told me to wipe the cookie crumbs off my stomach and go exercise the dog.  I sent him out with instructions to go run three miles and report back.

I just remembered, the dog and I have a new trick.  We run down the dock together and synchro dive in the lake.  Of the two of us, I am the steady diver, I can snap off a pretty solid head first dive.  The dog is the more talented, but he is erratic.  Sometimes he screws up and goes in early without a good toe point.  Yesterday, the dog got excited and barked once on entry, so the East German judge gave us a 4.5.