It's Almost Over

Its almost over! I woke this morning unable to get back, this is not an unusual event, rarely can I enjoy the gift of late sleeping—even if I am tired. I wake and that id it for the night I'm done and I need to get up and face my day. In fairness I must confess that now that I am retired and aging I am sleeping later then I ever have—depending when I retire of course. But even going to be at 9:30 pm which used to guarantee that I would wake at 4:30 am or earlier now I'm lucky to wake before 6:30—still earlier enough to get the best bang out of my morning buck.

But today I laid with a knowledge and excitement that the the Olympics would soon be over for this Olympiad and that regular programing would soon be back on the regular NBC affiliate and a release from an unwritten decree that all good citizens must be about their Olympic business of supporting home team(country). Hour after hour,day after day of Olympic fluff, comentary and cutesy back stories of athletes, athletes families and even hometown all punctuated with nearly as much advertizing mostly auto advertizing but also insurance, alcohol and local furniture stores.

I don't know, I think I have blogged before of my distaste for sports and specifically organized sports .i.e baseball, foot ball, basketball curling and on and on. I would like to say this sport aversion is a result of a beautiful life struck down in adolescence but no as romantic and shallow as that we be, but the truth be told I always hated watching long contests between individual and team. I could almost tolerate taking part in sporting exhibitions-I played baseball, football, volleyball, I wrestled, and other thing. I did not like any of it. I see sporting events as a way of developing synthetic stress and whipping individuals, communities, state and country of nothing at all. Too many tears. Oh yes, I know sports.

So tomorrow night, Sunday will broadcast the last of these Russian Olympics—thank god. Let the Russians return to what ever the Russians do their people and the rest of the world to what ever it does. Let the 5:30 and ten o clock news return to reporting what they and so we consider news an way from silly human interest stories about locals taking part in the “games”. We used to have a reprieve of four years between Olympiads but in true and typical fashion, greed has entered in(I am sure driven by the U.S.) and now have to endure these events every two years(unbelievable). I guess I could rant on about the whole debacle of the Para-olympics—what a joke—that supposedly super athletic event, about sports, competition (the worlds best) of people with disabilities called the olympics but really not, the Olympics—and most folk with disabilities ha e not even figured this out yet—the jocks just want to be jocks somewhere on a world stage any world stage. So I my rant in a couple of weeks when the Para-olympics are supposed to begin—the b est part is there will almost be no coverage and my program will not be affected.