I'm exhausted today. Stayed up way too late last night watching the US Women's Gymnastics team win the silver medal in Athens. What can I say? Andrea & I are definitely Olympics junkies! We set up our living room TiVo last week to pretty much record Olympics 24 hours a day for the next couple of weeks. The boys have been catching a little coverage here and there (instead of watching cartoons for their TV time) and we have been trying to keep up with things at night after they go to bed. The problem is that there is a lot to keep up with! We normally don't get started watching until at least 9:00p. With TiVo we are able to skip through the commercials. But even with this ability we invariably wind up staying up until 12:00-1:00a. Sleep a few hours & back up to hit a new day around 6:30a (C)-7:30a (A). We keep talking about needing to get to bed earlier, but we are totally hooked on the Olympics! We enjoy watching them so much - always have. It's hard to skip through/turn off the swimming & gymnastics and I don't think it will get any easier when Track & Field hits this weekend.

I suppose we can just endure this schedule for a few more days & then try & rest this weekend. We'll see. It's gotten bad enough that we are actually fast-forwarding in double-time through some of the races & then clicking on real-time to watch the final sprint to the end. It's definitely been great watching the Olympics with TiVo! I think I've enjoyed this year's summer games more than any other I have watched in recent history. Because we are recording 75% of what is on TV (we miss some of the events that overlap between channels) we can skip to the events we are really interested in (Beach Volleyball for me, Gymnastics for Andrea, for example) and fast-forward through things we don't want to watch (& skip commercials, too). Too good!

I just checked the line-up for tonight: men's individual gymnastics all-around ... there's no hope for going to bed early now!