Olympics
I’ve been watching the Olympics a lot so far. The weekend basically consisted of me sitting on the couch barely able to move (thanks CrossFit) and watching TV. I couldn’t even spend much time on the computer because my arms were so dead and I just wanted to slump on the couch and recover. The good news is that a couple of days of sitting on your ass, eating and sleeping a lot does amazing things for recovery. I feel way better now even though there is a little bit of lingering soreness.
So I’ve watched almost every Olympic event so far. I really enjoy it. There’s something about the enormity of the moment combined with the global competition that makes it compelling for me to watch almost every medal round. Pretty much the only thing I can’t stand is the figure skating. I can’t quite figure the sport out and I don’t see the differences between most routines. But I’ve enjoyed watching stuff like short track speed skating, long track speed skating, nordic combined, cross country skiing, freestyle skiing, luge, etc.
I think, if I had to pick my favorite winter Olympic sports, it would have to be downhill skiing (yet to come obv) and both types of speed skating. I much prefer objective sports and both sports are really exciting. Short track speed skating is just awesome stuff to watch imo. Apparently the American speedskater JR Celski is a poker player although I am not sure what that means (ie, poker fan, live poker, online poker, etc). I also really like stuff like snowboard cross although that is just getting going.
In work news, the new PocketFives is coming along pretty well. Everyone working on the project seems to be doing a good job so far and we’ve made a lot of progress. We still have some tricky aspects to work on but overall everything is smooth so far. I know that, at first, people will dislike it simply because people dislike change. Anything different from what they’re used to is automatically bad. But I think the real barometer will be what people think of it 20 to 30 days after the switchover. I fully expect negative criticism for the first few days but I’m really hopeful people will like it a few weeks out.
Also, I’m heading back down to Costa Rica in about a week so that should be fun. It’ll be a really busy work trip given all of the projects we have going on right now. We’ll be right in the middle of a bunch of PocketFives work along with a bunch of other stuff.
Lastly, I just started watching Sons of Anarchy over of the weekend. Really good show so far, I’m glad I picked it up. I can recommend the first five episodes for sure.
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