Been watching the Olympics a bit. Michael Phelps is over rated and no Mark Spitz. The Chinese gymnasts look younger then 16. Beach Volleyball, baseball, BMX, softball, badminton, ping pong and a couple other events should not be in the bloody Olympics. Too damned much time has been used up showing us beach volleyball, mostly the skanky USA womens team.

The weather has been nice for August. But we might pay for it in September.

I love my ipod shuffle.

Montana may have had a stroke, seizure or something last weekend. He seems fine. But at almost nineteen years old, he is not as active as he was when he was a younger cat.

Had a dream last night that I was on a cruise ship. And on the wrong one too. The night before I dreamed of seeing several UFOs in formations. One set was closer to the house and the other set was on the right and further away. I was playing with the dogs, it was dusk and there was other stuff going on. They were in the southwestern sky. Don't remember too much of either dream.

Okay today is supposedly a lucky day and I wish I could get a lotto ticket.

The summer Olympics start today. Am sort of looking forward to watching some of them. The thing that holds me back is the fact that they are taking part in China. I wonder why the committee chose them, what next the evil part of Korea or maybe Darfor?

For some reason I have taken interest in "That 70's Show". Even though I watched most of it during its run. Now I find myself setting the DVR up to record some of the episodes. I know at some point the fascination with the show will end and I'll become attached to something else. But thats life.

Forgot to mention that we saw "Hellboy 2" on Saturday. It was a pretty good movie, I had seen and liked the first one. The ending opened up the possibility of there being a third movie. After we saw the movie we had dinner out and then I went to Best Buy. I am now the proud owner of an Ipod nano and Robot Chicken Star Wars. I have been playing around and tweaking the nano, which I love. Got the purple one, which is very nice looking.

I did a load of laundry yesterday afternoon and did a small amount of mowing. Did both because I thought it was going to rain. Sure looked like it was going to rain at any point, but once again we get nothing. Might have to do the load of laundry over again.

Friday the Olympics start and I am not sure how much of them I am going to watch. Will watch some of the opening ceremony and take it from there.

The heat wave broke and we have a bit of a cool wave. It's been nice sleeping at night without sweating the whole time despite having two fans going, one of which is in the window bringing slightly cooler air in.

My Mom's birthday was yesterday. We went out to eat at Red Lobster. Not the most exciting fair but that's what she wanted. Had a lovely meal, despite it being rather hot. Was going to make her cake, but with it being so hot (95+ weather for the past few days) I didn't want to heat up the house more then necessary.

It is supposed to get cooler later in the week. Don't normally like to complain to much about the summer weather, but sometimes I just cant resist. We have had a couple periods this summer with hotter then normal temperatures and thankfully they haven't lasted long. Otherwise it has been a pleasant summer so far.

Its now August, Moms birthday is Monday. We vote on Tuesday and the heat is going last a few days. Guess that even though it starts getting better temperature wise in August, Summer decided to play the ace up the sleeve. If we play our cards right, Mom and I should do fine. We have a few things planned this weekend, mostly things for Saturday. Any and all cleaning done on Sunday will need to be done early. It wont be easy but we should come out of this fine. We have had hot weather like this before, its not fun but we can survive it.