Jonesing On the Olympics

I love my DVR.

We have had satellite cable for some time now and I've become the master of program recording. And it has been no more valuable than for the Olympics. With the events taking place on the other side of the world, the DVR has been vital to keeping pace with the events. I have the entire Olympics recorded (sans the basketball and soccer channels, boooring!).

I come home from work, Olympics. I wake up, Olympics. How wonderful. And I can watch it in compressed time since we can blow through the commercials and dead time (like between dives and gymnastic routines).

Kristen is hooked too. I caught her watching swimming in 1x speed. Goes a lot faster! Especially for the long races.

The only drawback. I'm a zombie this week at work. Been staying up late to watch the live broadcasts. You'd think Gilbert would realize this and cut us some slack and sleep in longer in the mornings. Uh, no!

What have I been watching? Just about everything. I'm partial to volleyball so watching the men's indoor has been a blast. Especially since NBC finally got their act together and the match is shown in its entirety. Swimming has been exciting to watch too.

I like the obscure stuff as well. Been attempting to understand handball. Looks more like grown men playing in gym class. Caught whitewater rafting last night. Those dudes are strong!

Gymnastics are over. Well, at least the team competition. Thank you! I remember listening to a sports radio station attempting to delineate between sport and non-sport. He said the determining factor was if you were judged. Gymnastics, not a sport! Not that they are not athletes, but when your performance is left to others for judging...not a sport!

And did you hear about USA Wrestling? The team brought over their own scale and it was wrong! The team has been frantically attempting to lose weight to make the weigh-in. I predict an abysmal showing. Too bad.