Rain! Yes, we got some rain. And then we got some more rain. And it’s still raining. Thank goodness for that – things were getting pretty bad around here. And it was nice of the rain to happen overnight and during a work day. Plus, it’s Friday, which is always a good thing, but even better because I have Monday off, too. I predict that Tuesday will suck.

I have to admit that yesterday I forgot that I didn’t care about the Olympics, and I watch a live blog of the last 20 minutes or so of the women’s gold medal soccer match. It appeared to be pretty fierce there at the end, with the Japanese team getting all kinds of shot and penalty kicks and whatnot, and the people doing the blogging adding things like, “minute 86!” as I sat and wondered how many minutes there are in a soccer match. Turns out there are 90’ish minutes. They apparently add on extra minutes, ostensibly having something to do with injuries or something, but I suspect it’s just arbitrary. Anyhow, good for the women (the US men didn’t even qualify, probably because most US men don’t actually care about soccer).

And for the women of the water polo team, too. I have played water polo (once or twice). I’m not totally clear on the rules, but I believe the main idea is to attempt to drown the players on the other team. Sort of like underwater rugby. This is why I never played it very much – I find the sensation of drowning to be rather unpleasant.

And of course I can’t fail to mention 17yr old Claressa Shields, who won the first US Gold in boxing (again outclassing the US men, who failed to medal at all for the first time ever). I didn’t watch any of it, but I heard an interview with her on NPR (one story before she one, and another last night), and she seems like a really great kid. A really great kid who could kick my ass.

Oh well, back to work.