Going for Gold

Disclaimer: This post is super video heavy today.

The Olympics are almost over, and as we close the chapter on another 2 1/2 weeks of sweaty bodies, I'd like to take the time to bring you attention to an event that I discovered this year thanks to one of my friends.

That right there is trampoline gymnastics, or as it's listed on the Olympic telecast schedule, trampolining. When I first heard about this I thought this was a joke, but after a quick trip to wiki, I was just dumb founded. Now it can be said I stopped paying attention to gymnastics when I got too old to think the female athletes were attractive anymore, which was around 1996, but I've been watching this event on youtube and I have to say it's pretty freaking rad.

Seriously watch this whole thing

If you can't watch the whole thing just watch from 1630 to1721. How friggen intense it that?! Can you jump that high on a trampoline, cause I can't. So this is amazing right, a little known event that's really cool, well I thought I might try to see if there were other less known events super cool at the events. This is what I found and my reactions when reading them.

1. The Canoe Slalom - What?! You get to do a slalom course in a canoe? I didn't think there was anyway to make a canoe manly unless it was made out of wood and animal hide.

Awesome

2. Rhythmic Gymnastics - So dancing is an Olympic sport...Correction it's dancing with objects...that still sucks. Really exactly how many gymnastic events do we need?

Stupid

3. Modern Pentathlon - Running, swimming, riding, shooting, sword play? I assume this is much more interesting then the Old Pentathlon, I think it might be a little more exciting if they were attacking each other with the swords and the guns...What? They are attacking each other with the swords? I'll take 50% of fun.

This is a super long video, just look up some pics of this.

There you have it, 3 odd events at the current 2012 games. As a parting note today, I'm going to leave you with a link to events that use to be in the Olympics, some that I believe we should still have (tug of war=awesome)

The end of the world

My sister is getting married, and what's great about that is I enjoy her fiancee a lot, but I feel he's having a negative effect on my mental state. It's nothing major, like we're sitting in his basement doing LSD, we're just planning for a global scale disaster. Cause stuff like this could happen.

In short I've become a prepper. Which is good because it gives me something to obsess about, but it totally sucks when it comes to my birthday and various other gift giving holidays (Columbus Day?). Where I would typically ask for xbox games for Christmas and my birthday, I'm asking for survival knives, GI medkits and this. I mean take a look at an exert from the first page of my amazon wishlist.

Top item: Water treatment tables

You all know I've always been hoping for a zombie related disaster, and if you have read any of my facebook posts during that horrible shit in Florida (the face eating guy) you can see that I was ready for a full on crisis, so it's not like I haven't been planning something to happen. What I'm doing now is a little different, since it's not so much getting ready for zombies (which I'm still doing and urge you to do the same) but more for dealing with the aftermath of a global disaster, excluding a meteor strike.

You can't prep for this unless you are Bruce Willis

One of the issues with prepping is the insanely expensive things you need to get. You seem to need to amass a small fortune in order to procure said gear for you and your family, (by that I mean my wife who I surmise thinks i am crazy). This of course makes it terribly inconvenient for anything to happen before you have your survival gear. Coupled with that is the unfortunate realization that you will have to lug your gear a safe place, which will require a lot of physical endurance, requiring you to get a gym membership, which I now have.

I'm going to out run a tsunami, or a lake

I've also learned that you should have a survival group, this means a group of people that will insure that you survive (at least that what it means to me), and you should practice surviving with them. Weather it be on camping trips or team building exercises like airsoft, paint ball or catch the chimp, my group is of 7 a nice number for a lot a situations that I'll touch on at some other time.

My survival group would not be this glee club looking

That's better.

The bottom line is if you are going to prep, make sure you have money, are in shape, and above all have friends...cause that lone wolf shit will get your ass zombified or full of radiation, ya know. which ever comes first.

A dog

I got a dog for Christmas. In the nine months since then I have made some startling discoveries about what owning a dog (1yr old) actually means.  Apparently having a dog when you live with your parents is not actually having a dog.

Her cuteness makes up for her being a pain in the ass...sometimes

1. You never actually took care of the dog at you parents:

I'm sure you though you did, especially when you were walking the dog in 7ft snow drifts or in the rain. But that's not taking care of a dog, taking care of a dog is waking you 1 hour earlier then you have to because then dog decides she needs to go out then, or bringing your couch cushion covers to the dry cleaner because you decided to go to the bathroom before you took the dog out.

See as a child living in your parents house you only ever have to really play with the dog, sure you might have chores like walking and feeding the pup, but you can always count on your parents picking up the slack if you happen to forget to do it, or you just don't do it.

2. Cats really don't get along with dogs:

It's a stereotype that has been thriving for years and as with most stereotypes it's base in fact, Cats HATE dogs.

No Dog = Relaxed Cats

I don't think in nine months I have had a single day where I have not heard a cat freak out, chase the dog around, corner her and beat the crap out of her, requiring me to get up and break up the very one sides fight. It's all because the dog doesn't get that the cats don't like her, and actively goes out of her way to to be around them. It's funny sure, but maybe after the 20th time of getting clocked in the head by a 15lb cat (the black one) you would think twice about messing with them. Nope, so my wife and I endure the constant war zone that my 1st floor has become.

3. Puppies don't have off switches:

As a child, like I said above, you really only have to play with a dog. At that time in your life you have a huge amount of energy and time where you and the dog can explore do lots of child and dog things. As you become an adult you start to lose both time and energy, however the dog does not. Let me give you an example of my day,

1. 6am: Walk dog
2. 615-630: Feed dog and cats
3. 631: Break up first fight of the day between dog and cats
4. 635: Attempt to shower while dog throws pull toy at you
5. 645: Attempt to get ready while dog throws pull toy at you
6. 650: Break up second fight of the day between dog and cats
7. 655: Start trying to get dog in crate so house is not destroyed
8. 715: Leave for work
9. 8-5pm: Work
10. 530: get tackled by dog when entering the house
11. 531: walk dog
12. 6pm: Attempt to eat dinner while dog throws pull toy at you
13. 645: Take dog to the yard throw ball around
14. 655: Take exhausted dog inside
15. 656: Break up third fight of the day between dog and cats
16. 701: Attempt to watch TV while the dog throws pull toy at you
17. 705: Give up and play tug of war with the dog
18. 710: Feed dog and cats
19. 711: Break up fourth fight of the day between dog and cats
20. 716-8: try to tire out dog
21. 8: Walk dog
22. 830-930: Try to tire out dog
23. 930-1059: FREE TIME
24. 11pm: Go to bed
25. 1101-6am: Fight with dog and wife for covers in the bed
26. Repeat

I love my dog, I just wish someone had warned me.