My computer sucks….
And I’m tired of it. I need a new one. I’ve had this one for like eight years. So I guess it doesn’t suck at all, it’s just too old.
I haven’t been posting much because I’ve had the freaking thing getting fixed by my wife’s stepdad the whole weekend, and then she needs it for work, so she’s been taking up all the computer time with our slower-than-Kurt Thomas Internet browser.
Meanwhile, I’ve been left to my own devices, watching a mixture of The Office re-runs and a true menagerie of sports that includes college hoops one moment, the Bucks getting just destroyed by the Rockets the next and an Olympic assortment of everything from hockey (LOVE Olympic hockey) to curling to downhill skiing (every time I watch that, I am just amazed by the ability of those skiers to make 45-degree turns while going 174 mph on a track that resembles that weird mixture that comprised your elementary-school lunchroom floor, whatever that stuff was).
The Olympics are always a curious event to me. For once out of every four years, we turn our attention to sports that we wouldn’t normally watch if we had a choice between that and being a Cubs fan. Yet somehow, everyone turns into an expert on all these sports when the Olympics roll around.
I was out to dinner with my wife on Saturday night, and we were having a couple cocktails at the bar waiting for our table. They had the luge on TV, and these two guys next to me were breaking it down like Dr. Jack Ramsey and Hubie Brown on a basketball game.
“Whoa, he went WAY too high up the wall!” the guy next to me exclaims.
“Yep, that’s gonna cost him time,” his friend concurs.
The luge really amazes me. I mean, what’s the differene between first and 20th? Five-tenths of a second? How in the world any human being can willingly make himself go five-tenths of a second faster than another without sheer luck while careening down a chute of ice like a bullet is beyond me.
But I digress.
I wanted to post my thoughts on my favorite Olympic moment ever, and maybe the greatest moment in American sports, the 1980 “Miracle on Ice.” I also want to break down the Bucks’ acquisition of John Salmons, which I feel could be a solid move, though in the bizarre world of NBA trades, nobody quite knows what exactly the Bucks will be giving up yet. It seems to be Elson and Thomas, but it could be Warrick, which means because of salary rules the deal would have to include others if Warrick is involved. Who knows? Stay tuned….
In the meantime, this post took me 49 minutes to pull off. Let’s hope this computer thing gets solved soon.
