Bracket Busters and More Madness

Two days of the NCAA tournament have come and gone - and they have been great!

I worked short days both Thursday and Friday to come home and watch games. Highlights include:

• Purdue looking seasoned and capable of at-least a Sweet Sixteen bid.
• Butler looking equally poised to make a run on greatness.
• The Big Ten started out 3 for 3, until the under-performing Hoosiers fell to Arkansas.
• The Bittersweet Glory of the Tournament comes with Upset City:
• The First was W. Kentucky over Drake (12 over 5)
• Then UConn killed me (one of my Final Four) losing to San Diego (?!)
• There are TWO 12 v. 13 games. That is absolutely unheard of
  
• The one upset I picked was Villanova over Clemson (the other 12 over 5)
  

(This is one of my 4 brackets)

• In the work pool, I was leading after day one
• I've got 4 brackets all together (21, 23, 24, and 25 out of 32, respectively)

PURDUE v. XAVIER - Today at 4:40

Boiler UP!!!!!!!!!!!!! (that's for you Bob T.)

March Madness!!!

It has begun! I finagled my work schedule so that I could take a half-day today, in order to watch the Purdue game. Right now, they are dominating and look nothing like their alliterative "Baby Boilers" moniker. I've got no less than 5 brackets filled out: a few Yahoo, Facebook, and my first ever office pool.

There is just nothing better than 32 games over the course of four days. I absolutely love March Madness like no other sporting event of the year. This is going to be a great weekend.

March Madness, and more

March Madness begins! Selection Sunday was exciting as usual. Glad to see Purdue as a six seed. More glad to see Indiana as an eight (ha)! I'm trying to fix my work schedule so that I can be home to watch some games either Thursday, Friday, or both.

And just a few things of note recently:

• A nerdy, but nostalgically addictive addition to my "regular websites" in VirtualNES.com and Nintendo8.com. Thanks Faulkner. Thanks a lot.
• Obama came to Indiana. I did not get to see him. Maybe next time.
• The Ides of March came and went again.
  
• St. Patty's Day is tomorrow (unless you are Catholic, and then it was yesterday)
• And speaking of Catholic, did anyone else see that the Pope added to the list of Mortal Sins (meaning, you need absolution for them). I want to talk with a practicing Catholic on what they think.
  
• Environmental pollution
• Genetic manipulation
• Accumulating excessive wealth
• Inflicting poverty
• Drug trafficking and consumption
• Morally debatable experiments
• Violation of fundamental rights of human nature