Posted on 08-08-2008
Olympics Opening Ceremony Live
Filed Under (Whatever) by jay

It’s that time again, time for the summer Olympics.  Yee haw.  I haven’t actually been excited about them since i was 13 years old.  It was an exciting time, i didn’t have a mortgage, I was about to start the eighth grade, and I was pumped.  I spent two weeks glued to the tv that summer watching the Barcelona Games.  At the time I was dreaming about being an olympic decathalete.  I’m not sure what gave me the idea that this was something I wanted to pursue, I’m certainly no where near that now.  The closest I ever got was the eighth grade track team and lets just say it did not give me encouragement to pursue that dream.  I almost went out for the cross country team in the fall but though better of it after almost getting heat stroke running the 1600 meter at a track meet.

Nowadays I am not that excited about the olympics, either winter or summer.  It no longer holds the same appeal to me.  When I was 13, there was the decathalon dream but there was also the 16 year old gymnasts.  At 30, they don’t have quite the same appeal.  I have a mortgage, a wife, and a kid, 16 year old over achievers are not my thing (16 year olds in general are not my thing, just to clarify).

The olympics this year are in Beijing China, which is about 12 hours ahead of eastern time.  So I guess they must have had the olympics opening ceremony live several hours ago.  Or maybe good morning america or whatever, I think its actually NBC, is showingg it not live.  I’m not interested enough to check.  I don’t get why the IOC has the olympics in countries with the appaling human rights record as china.  Of course, they have them in the states every decade or so and we are not exactly walking on water these days.

Olympic mortgage seems to be a popular name for mortgage companies.  I guess because this is because of the hopes and dreams that they olympics represent.  Or at least what they represented before the US lobbied to allow professional athletes to compete and then it mostly became about the US racking up the gold medals.  I guess to many people it still is a dream.  You spend your whole life workingng towards the goal off getting to the olympics and then when you get there, it  must be magical.  So my countrie’s politics aside, for the individual, they still represent hope.

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