All that glitters is not gold.........or grey

Okay, I have to confess. I'm an Olympics junkie.

I can hardly wait to get home to turn on the television. I have two televisions going full-blast at home. I set programming on my satellite so as not to miss any programming....ever...even while I'm sleeping. One never knows....I might want to watch Togo play the Vatican in women's handball (whatever that is) in the event I should happen to wake up at 3:36 in the morning and get the itch to want to learn how to play it, being the jock that I am. Somehow, I think that sleeping is a far more practical option.

Whatever it is, I think it has a lot to do with the fact that I can't wait to go to China. After all, I need a vacation, and as of today, China is only 54 days away. I can tell you that after watching the Olympics tonight, my obsession ISN'T because of two reasons.

First.......Bob Costas. The only way that man's hair at his age could be that chocolate to dark-Hershey-Special brown is if he douses himself with Kiwi shoe polish. And his very stupid, cretin-esque humor is one that only a foreign exchange student who lacks English skills could admire. After all, I experienced my family's foreign exchange student (when I was in high school) enjoy the "smart" humor of Three's Company. It's on par. And, it's brutal. No wonder the French love Jerry Lewis.

Second, after watching the women's team gymnastics competition, I can't help but think that former Olympian Tim Daggett must be a chronic nay-sayer. I don't think that man has an ounce of hope. He made Chicken Little look like Pollyanna. I found myself swearing at the television often after hearing his pessimistic spin and diatribe. Then again, if I were long in nose and long in tooth, I'd probably be a chronic negative Nancy as well. Who knows what HIS issue was tonight.

Anyhow, the Olympics, well...I love them anyhow, despite questionable commentators. And, that Michael Phelps is something else! Superhuman comes to mind. WOW!

Hopefully when the Olympic hype is over, the Chinese will still be the happy smiling people that we've come to see on TV.

We'll see.