Today's Olympic rant is...

Picture this scenario...

You are watching an exciting Olympic sport, let's say beach volleyball. Let's imagine that the US is playing Croatia or something. They are in the middle of a huge volley, the announcers are rambling on about a certain player and then they suddenly shut up (bad sign.) You see the fade out and hear the sappy music start. Then a deep male voice comes on and says "Lbulgia came from a poor family in the war-torn town of Zvgerbaih. Her journey to the Olympics is a triumph that we all can learn from." Then they go into the heartfelt story of Lbulgia's life.

I thought these were touching the first twenty times I saw them. If you've watched the Olympics for more than fifteen minutes, you know exactly what I'm talking about. They can make even the most well-off American equestrian "athletes" seem like they've had to fight for scraps of food to get to the Olympics.

And my "duh" moment from the announcers today happened just about an hour ago during women's rowing. There were five boats - yellow, white, red, blue and green. All five were in the camera's field of vision. The announcer said "the red boat is in the lead." Duh. How about telling me what country that is?

I spent most of my day sleeping. I took a couple sleeping pills after I posted last night and fell asleep shortly after. I woke up at about 9:30 or 10:00 when Matt got home from work. We played EQ for a while, then took a nap from about 12:30 to 4:00 or so. I have been lounging around since then. I have some laundry to do after this. He should hopefully be home by 1:30am tonight, which is pretty cool. His working nights kind of stinks because we can't really do anything. I've been wanting to go to Dave & Busters, an adult arcade (meaning they serve alcohol, not a porn arcade) and play ski-ball, but he leaves for work around 6pm so we can't really do that. He switches to first shift next week, but he's working 12 hour shifts so we still really can't do much.

Oh well, such is life in the Navy. In other news today, I found out today that his sister is moving here next month. I see advantages and disadvantages to this. Well, I'm off to do some laundry.

Later!