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Yesterday was a pretty boring day while we waited for the non existant snow to come, Robyn ended up napping for a few hours in the evening which meant one thing for me, boring Sunday evening TV…

But no, there are the Winter Olympics to enjoy…

To be honest, up until Friday I had completely forgotten about the Winter Olympics even being on this year. But last night was some great viewing with the crazy Ski Jumpers, insane Lugers(?), super Speed Skaters, gnarly Snowboarders and crazyinsanesupergnarly Downhill Skiers!

As a side note, why is it called Downhill Skiing? What else are they gonna do? Uphill Skiing? Now THAT I’d pay to see…

Robyn woke up as the Speed Skating started and immediately made fun of Apolo Ohno’s name, but then came the Snowboarding halfpipe and the antics of “The Flying Tomato” Shaun White.

Seriously, this kid makes me feel way too old, he’s like 19 and has more gold medals in various competitions than I’ve had hot dinners during my lifetime. I think Robyn liked it too, she was cheering for the tomato, and I tried to impress her by spewing stuff like:

Ohhh, frontside fakie 360 grab into a McTwist

(What can I say, I was a wannabe skateboarder back in the days before skateboarding was cool and I’m an X-Games addict)

Alas we didnt see if White won the gold as we turned over for Grey’s Anatomy, but I found out he did (and shit, this wasn’t even live programming, so I could have known in advance). The other main talking points were Bode Miller and Daron Rahlves losing out in the Downhill and Ohno bailing out on the last few laps of the Speed Skating short track semi (hehe, ohno! he didn’t!). I was kinda cheering for him, which got Robyn asking if I was now following the US or the British team… To be fair, I don’t see NBC showing much in the way of the British Olympic team during primetime.

The British team isn’t well known for Speed Skating, but in Curling, the womens team rule! Led on by Colin Hendry lookalike (seriously) Rhona Martin, seriously, they are separated at birth, they are the defending champions… Who else do they have? Ummm. Skier Alain Baxter who won the bronze at Salt Lake City but was eventually DQ for taking a Vicks nasal spray… I’m sure there are others.

After last nights few hours, I’m wondering if a season pass for the Olympics is a good idea…

Inspired by Dave’s little take on House, here comes the definative 12 step list of every episode of House…

1. Something bad happens to someone, it’s usually a very dramatic seizure of some sort.
2. That awesome Massive Attack song “Teardrop” plays.
3. Commercial.
4. They bring the person in. House gives reasons why that patient shouldn’t be his but takes him/her in anyway.
5. Initial diagnosis, it’s usually a simple one so they think they know what the problem is. Patient gets treated.
6. Patient has another dramatic seizure. Dammit, the diagnosis was wrong…
7. All the doctors go to the meeting room to sit around the whiteboard and think of other possibilities. House verbally abuses the person who made the original diagnosis.
8. Patient is retested, treated for something else. House goes to the clinic against his will to verbally abuse some patients while playing his Nintendo DS or PSP.
9. House makes some asshole comment to someone, usually the patient or patients family… Meanwhile Foreman and either Cameron or Chase break into the patients house to look for clues.
10. Patient is near death, they need to REALLY figure out what the problem is.
11. They figure out what the problem is just in the nick of time… Patient goes home happy.
12. The show ends with House proving he has a heart of gold somewhere where no one but the audience can see him.

But it’s still great…