ROC doesn't mean china

 i kept seeing 'ROC' in the list of olympic medal winners, and kept wondering what this meant. finally researched it and it doesn't mean 'republic of china'. it is 'russian olympic committee'. there was an article that mentioned why, how russian athletes can compete but not under that flag or have that national anthem played if a gold medal winner. i know there was also the 'unified team' in 1992, shortly after the USSR was dissolved. one can find out all kinds of things when it comes to an international event such as this one. i watched some olympic competition tonight at the bar while waiting for the open-mic to begin. it was some swimming events, and in the women's division i saw two americans medal- a gold and a bronze. in the men's division it was still not yet the final round, but the semi-finals, and one american qualified. i am aware of how the usa men's basketball team lost their first game over the weekend, to france. my open-mic performance went fine, hard to say which one got the most reaction. it may have been the one about an idiot asking to be let in and i refused as the fill-in host, the guitar player with the kick drum (although he didn't bring it this week) shared a story in response to it when living in california. at work i got a ticket opened to get the docking station and dual monitor on the computer hooked up, at the end of tuesday. i am closing in on eliminating the backlog of checks from the file that dropped in early july, just under 4,000 left. in the evening after the open-mic i went on a walk and found 92 cents. the 'big bang theory' reruns were when amy is the popular girl, and howard takes sheldon's class. it was followed by the one where sheldon is the tenants association, and had the food truck next to the building he lives in moved. howard and raj find a drone.