I looked at myself in the mirror this morning and was kinda shocked. I look like a hobo. Haven't shaved in about 3 or 4 months. Haven't had a haircut in at least 7 months. Things are getting out of hand. 

 

Flying back to the US tomorrow.

I feel bad for you, mate. My condolences...

 

Definitely. Being outside the US? How terrible!

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Had a realization. For what will probably be the only time in my life, the Olympics are being held in my timezone...sort of. Brazil is nominally an hour ahead of Atlantic Standard, but they don't observe DST and we do, which means we move into their timezone during the summer (GMT -3), albeit with later sunrises and sunsets.

 

This works out perfectly, since it coincides with what will likely be the last time I will be in a position to watch much of the Olympics live for several decades to come. I'm glad it could all come together for me like that.

OLYMPICS!!

 

git hype.

 

In 5 minutes the opening ceremony.

Had to have surgery today to have a mole removed from my leg today and had to be put under for it so I'm spending my second to last friday night in my hometown vegetating on my couch watching Outlander because I'm too woozy from the anasthesia to do much else. Woooooooooooooooooooooooo

 

Having my goodbye party tomorrow though and I'm not sure if I'm ready for all of the feels that will ensue from that though lol, should be a great time though at least

The opening and closing ceremonies are awesome, I don't follow the games much otherwise.

 

Couldn't really say the budget was just 1/10th of the budget for London Olympics. For the opening ceremony, that is.

Had to have surgery today to have a mole removed from my leg today and had to be put under for it so I'm spending my second to last friday night in my hometown vegetating on my couch watching Outlander because I'm too woozy from the anasthesia to do much else. Woooooooooooooooooooooooo

 

Having my goodbye party tomorrow though and I'm not sure if I'm ready for all of the feels that will ensue from that though lol, should be a great time though at least

How on earth were you given enough anesthesia to make you woozy? Was it a very big mole? was it just cut out with a scalpel? Or was there some osrt of minor operation don? When i had a mole removed on my back i was given nothing but a small injection and it was cut out. Always seems to me like Americans are given enough anesthetics to put a fully grown elephant to sleep for the smallest of procedures. 

 

Had to have surgery today to have a mole removed from my leg today and had to be put under for it so I'm spending my second to last friday night in my hometown vegetating on my couch watching Outlander because I'm too woozy from the anasthesia to do much else. Woooooooooooooooooooooooo

 

Having my goodbye party tomorrow though and I'm not sure if I'm ready for all of the feels that will ensue from that though lol, should be a great time though at least

How on earth were you given enough anesthesia to make you woozy? Was it a very big mole? was it just cut out with a scalpel? Or was there some osrt of minor operation don? When i had a mole removed on my back i was given nothing but a small injection and it was cut out. Always seems to me like Americans are given enough anesthetics to put a fully grown elephant to sleep for the smallest of procedures. 

 

Anesthetics are a quick way to up that surgery bill too.

 

 

Had to have surgery today to have a mole removed from my leg today and had to be put under for it so I'm spending my second to last friday night in my hometown vegetating on my couch watching Outlander because I'm too woozy from the anasthesia to do much else. Woooooooooooooooooooooooo

 

Having my goodbye party tomorrow though and I'm not sure if I'm ready for all of the feels that will ensue from that though lol, should be a great time though at least

How on earth were you given enough anesthesia to make you woozy? Was it a very big mole? was it just cut out with a scalpel? Or was there some osrt of minor operation don? When i had a mole removed on my back i was given nothing but a small injection and it was cut out. Always seems to me like Americans are given enough anesthetics to put a fully grown elephant to sleep for the smallest of procedures. 

 

Anesthetics are a quick way to up that surgery bill too.

 

I figured it had to be something like that. That kinda sucks. 

Our healthcare system is a joke

I have had other moles removed without anesthesia that were much more sane and similar to what you guys all described. My dermotologist had removed half of it previously, but after a biopsy it showed up as something that could eventually develop into melanoma so I had to have the surgery done. I was fairly skeptical of the need for full anesthesia for this though. The justification I was given was that because it was so large and potentially deep into the skin it had to be a larger, elliptical cut around the mole. I haven't taken the bandages off yet though so I don't know how large the area they actually had to remove was yet.

 

edit: turns out i had to have stitches to close up the wound from the removal so this makes a lot more sense to me now.

Honest statement: I don't normally have any desire to watch the Olympics, and hearing about what the prep work did to Brazil makes me want to actively avoid them.

 

It's kind of a meaningless gesture, though, all things considered.

Today me and my buddy Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo- chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo went to the mall to check out some shoes. Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo- chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo found a sweet pair of kicks, but I didn't. I asked Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo- chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo if I could borrow 5 bucks for lunch, because the place only took cash, but Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo- chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo spent all his money on the shoes.

I've been travelling for a week hitting Genova and cinque Terre which was beautiful. I went to the biggest aquarium in Italy, totally worth it but was like ikea where I couldn't find the exit for nearly an hour. I'm now in Pisa and looking forward to taking a walk around the city, take some cityscape images

I watched a chunk of the opening ceremony last night, it was pretty awesome. No interest in tje actual games though

I usually watch the entire winter Olympics, don't really care about the summer games that much. Might watch a few shooting/archery events.

Saw a post on Facebook by one of my (American) friends today. Read something like this : "Great, our first Gold Medal at the Olympics is for shooting."

 

Found it quite humorous. 

Went to high school with one of the dudes that got silver on the US archery team

Know him well?

 

I know someone from my hometown is currently being trained for the 2020 Olympics.

Yeah, we graduated in the same class and we only had 28 students haha. Was one of my best friends, we used to scape together actually

so he's 99 ranged irl too

Can someone explain to me why some of the Olympic swimmers are coming out onto the pool with so many clothes on, including a few full on Winter Parkas? I assume it serves an actual function (instead of being just for show), but I'm not sure what it is. Every pool I've ever been to was at least 25C on deck and near 100% humidity, and the change rooms are usually similar. Wondering if someone can fill me in. There seems to be a lot variation in how much people wear as well (from 'ready for a Canadian Blizzard' to 'a sweater').

I was wondering about that too. I get having a jacket in case you have an air conditioner blowing right on you, but some of these folks are dressed like it's the day after tomorrow

I don't know what their conditions are but from what I remember I would be pretty cold too. The minute you get out of the water you will start getting cold - unlike if you're hanging in there for an hour.