Did anyone else think that Li Ning and the flying torchlighting was OTT?

I loved being able to see dressage. (I tivoed the USA coverage overnight and got to see Mark Todd and Gandalf plus some others and then they showed the evening session this morning.)

And I wish that they had shown the road race differently. I also wish that we had Phil Liggett AND Paul Sherwin not just Paul Sherwin.

Yeah, Phil and Paul are kind of an OTP for me.

Sasha Artemev's pommel horse routine was chockful of the HSQ!

Apparently, Phil is commentating for Australia (and also works for CBS.)

Hey the Sabre Team rocked it! I don't get what I'm seeing when I see it but very cool.

And just how deep is the Spanish Cycling team? I mean - they had 4 guys that they were talking about as favorites to win and then the fifth guy actually wins it. I was pleased that Cancellara got up for Bronze. (Not bad for the only Swiss guy in the road race.)

Hey, Plei: Kissinger sighting at the Olympics. Just thought you'd want to know.

Hee.

I loved watching Dressage! So good.

BTW, Sumi, have you read Sara Gruen's Riding Lessons and Flying Changes? You might like them. (But I love her book Water for Elephants much more).

I really, really wanted a piece of chocolate cake from this bakery that's about 7 blocks away or so. So I walked there, and today they didn't have any of that cake. So on the way back home, I stopped at the cupcake bakery that's only a block away from my house, figuring maybe I could get a little chocolate cupcake. They did not have the little cupcakes, they only had the big cupcakes. So I debated, but decided to go ahead and get the big cupcake. And now I feel sick. I always feel sick after eating the big cupcake. And I didn't even finish it, I just ate most of it. Darn you, Yummy Cupcakes.

And, of course, I did this cake excursion instead of going to the gym. Of course.

ETA: Hi, Kat! Did you get my message the other day?

A friend of mine in college did dressage! She used to wax eloquent on it. I lost her after I graduated and can't find her in google.

Holy god, Phelps is a local with a spotty record ( I am mad at him for dwi) and I'm normally not a rooter, but hoooly shit.

I love dressage! Never got any good at it, but hey. Love!

And, of course, I did this cake excursion instead of going to the gym. Of course.

I went bike riding today, but I stopped about half a mile from home to get ice cream.

t edit: the ice cream was on the way back home, not on the way out.