So, I may not be online as often as usual since - in their infinite wisdom - my company has decided to block Livejournal. Along with kgsr.com, kexp.org, and any site with the words "journal" or "blog" in their URLs. It seems these sites "might negatively affect network capacity" which is odd since, for the past 7 and a half years, the capacity has seemed pretty much ok to me. But what do I know.

Oddly enough - Myspace.com? Perfectly fine to visit during work.

This has been a pretty rough week - to be honest. Two weeks after dealing with swimmers ear, I now have an infection on the same damn ear in the form of a lovely boil behind my right earlobe. It seems the skin became infected because I sweat too much. Which makes me sound like Charles Shultz' Pigpen - which I am not.

However, while being a very clean person, I do work out 5-6 times a week and, when I work out, I sweat like a pig. Like a pig having a heart attack. While in heat. During August.

And - since I don't foresee myself never sweating anytime soon - I guess this is just something that's going to happen to me every couple of months. About once a season, I'll be a sweaty mess with an unsightly boil behind my ear.

I know, I know, it's amazing that I'm single.

So, I've been watching the Olympics - because I'm a junky for the Summer Olympics (Winter Olympics don't do much for me). I find it humorous that every 4 years, for two weeks, America suddenly becomes experts at a sport that does not begin with "foot", "basket" or "base" - while fully admitting that I'm as guilty of this as everyone else.

A couple of thoughts I've had over the past week:

• How much must it suck to be a male swimmer not named Michael Phelps right now?
• Whoever came up with the idea of forcing the Womens Beach Volleyball teams to play in bikinis is a genius. Do you have any idea how big a WNBA fan I'd be if Lisa Leslie was forced to play in a thong? Get on this Commissioner Stern!
• Speaking of basketball, it's simultaneously amazing and not surprising at all to me how little flack The Spanish National team is getting for that disgusting photo. Can you imagine if the USA team did that? If Carmelo Anthony did that, he'd immediately besent to Gitmo. Or, even worse, the Milwaukee Bucks.
• Every time I watch the diving competitions, I pray that someone will cannonball. Every time I'm disappointed.
• Mary Carillo scares the living shit out of me a lil' bit.
• Man, my heart just broke for Alicia Sacramone last night. It's bad enough to crap-out twice in front of the whole world, permanently marking her career - but the cameras just kept hounding her for the rest of the night. I could almost hear Bela Karolyi scream, "Cry! Cry for me, you little bitch! I COMMAND YOU!!!!"
• While I admit, I don't see the advantage of having gymnastic competitors younger than 16, I'm relieved China won. Otherwise, they would have just forced unborn fetuses up on the uneven bars. And no one wants to see that.
• Where did NBC get so many Chinese correspondents, all of the sudden. Do they keep correspondents of every nationality in a bag somewhere - prepared for any possible Olympic location? I'd love to be a fly on the wall in two weeks, when these correspondents try to fly back to New York, "One-way? No, I'm sure this was a round-trip ticket."
• Finally, God bless you Logan Tom