Winter Olympics

I heard recently that viewership of this Winter Olympics is down 40%. I can attest to this.

Ever since I can remember I’ve been an avid Olympics watcher. An Olympic watcher, top of the podium, sit on the couch viewer—except lsast year for the Summer Games and this winter. Finally the limitations of cutting the cable has caught up with me. I know, I know it’s only $4.99 to sign up for Peacock to be able to stream, but it’s more than the money.

Sort of.

I used to just be able to turn on my TV and watch for FREE. Now I don’t have a TV, an antenna, none of it. With almost everything else I can stream . . . I’m looking for an easy way to watch.

Also lately, and maybe it’s because I’m an old lady I’ve been shunted into signing up for so much JUNK I don’t want. I’m killer at Googling, it is my writer/researcher instinct, but I’m still naïve enough around the internet to click on and think I need to sign in to do this or that, like recently when doing my taxes, or getting a Windows question answered. I’ve been burned, only later to discover I didn’t need that specific app or whatever to resolve an issue. I need to slow down and rethink my willingness to share my email and documents online.

That’s how we compromise our identity.

Anyway, back to the Olympics, the 2022 Winter Olympics are passing me by, much like the 2021 Summer Games. At, the same time, I’m getting out and doing my own Olympics instead of being sucked into the screen.

This past weekend, after the BIG SNOW, I went out to Lake Lansing where there are groomed trails and skied for over 2 hours. Some of the routes were signed for advanced skiers and I blew past them—literally as I have a hard time stopping going downhill—it is the nature of cross-country. The only way to stop is to plow into a bank of snow. The trails were glassy smooth and wound through thick woods. There were planks over boggy areas now frozen, so I glided through grassland on top of a constructed surface. It was magical.

I’m on my own Winter Olympic mission to stay healthy and in shape.