Okay, so I just read Robyn's blog and her glowing endorsement of the potential for my blog to keep you entertained. Talk about performance anxiety. This is almost as bad as standing at the communal urinal at the ball game with a dozen other men just waiting to see if your bladder will agree to release its contents. We've all been there at least once, haven't we. (Please say, "YES" - men only.) You're dancing all the way to the bathroom, finally get a spot to wedge in at the front of the queue, and the spigot won't turn on. Can't even look down to make sure everything's alright because the Unwritten Code of the Urinal dictates that you stare straight ahead and take an unusual interest in the square of wall directly in front of you. I understand that two guys made eye contact once durning half-time at a soccer match in England. It took three days, four police forces and seven fire brigades to clean up the rioting. I don't want to even consider what would happen if streams crossed.
I was about to say that you women have it easy 'cause you all get stalls and some degree of privacy unless someone needs you to spare a square, but I know better than to do that. I'd have dozens (okay, maybe three) of you reminding me of long lines and unsanitary toilet seats and no squares to spare. Now that's pressure.
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Bracket Update
Day 2 was not kind to some of us.
Joseph has come out of nowhere to lead the group at 25-7 by simply picking all higher seeds.
Matthew and Nadine are at 22-10
Teresa and Paul are at 21-11
Jensen still has a winning record at 17-15
All of us Picked Vanderbilt to advance to the Sweet 16.
Only Matthew picked Western Kentucky to beat Drake, which it did with a longer-than-NBA 3 pointer at the buzzer.
Joseph picked Kansas to win it all, so we now have five different choices for champion between the six of us.
Joseph has come out of nowhere to lead the group at 25-7 by simply picking all higher seeds.
Matthew and Nadine are at 22-10
Teresa and Paul are at 21-11
Jensen still has a winning record at 17-15
All of us Picked Vanderbilt to advance to the Sweet 16.
Only Matthew picked Western Kentucky to beat Drake, which it did with a longer-than-NBA 3 pointer at the buzzer.
Joseph picked Kansas to win it all, so we now have five different choices for champion between the six of us.
Thursday, March 20, 2008
One Step Beyond
And so begins the Madness.
We have a tradition in our home where all interested parties fill out a bracket for the NCAA Basketball Tournament. We keep track and he or she with the best guessing ability gets a treat at the end. We just go by cummulative record. Of course, them what know the least about the sport tend to do the best. After day 1, the standings are as follows:
At 14-2 is Teresa. At one point she was 11-0. All next-round picks are still alive.
At 13-3 stand Nadine and Paul, also with no damage to future rounds.
At 12-4 is Matthew, with significant damage to future rounds. He picked BYU into the Final Four.
At 6-6, Jensen is off to a so-so start in his rookie year, but surprisingly his future rounds look okay. His only big mistake so far is picking Temple into the Elite Eight. He picked every game himself, with Teresa reading the names of the team and Jensen selecting. Teresa even heard him wrong once and he emphatically corrected her. She did steer him away from picking American to beat Tennessee, but he wouldn't budge on Temple.
Joseph is abstaining so far, but since he doesn't follow the sport too closely, I'll still try to get him to fill out a bracket in the morning. He was either first or second place last year.
Notes of Interest:
Nadine and Paul missed-guessed the exact same games.
Jensen was the only one who picked the West Virginia-Arizona game right.
Paul was the only one who picked the BYU-Texas A&M game right.
Jensen's bracket was almost destroyed by Belmont, a 15 seed who lost to 2 seed Duke by one point and had a shot to win it. Jensen has picked Duke to win it all.
The five particpants have chosen four different champions.
We have a tradition in our home where all interested parties fill out a bracket for the NCAA Basketball Tournament. We keep track and he or she with the best guessing ability gets a treat at the end. We just go by cummulative record. Of course, them what know the least about the sport tend to do the best. After day 1, the standings are as follows:
At 14-2 is Teresa. At one point she was 11-0. All next-round picks are still alive.
At 13-3 stand Nadine and Paul, also with no damage to future rounds.
At 12-4 is Matthew, with significant damage to future rounds. He picked BYU into the Final Four.
At 6-6, Jensen is off to a so-so start in his rookie year, but surprisingly his future rounds look okay. His only big mistake so far is picking Temple into the Elite Eight. He picked every game himself, with Teresa reading the names of the team and Jensen selecting. Teresa even heard him wrong once and he emphatically corrected her. She did steer him away from picking American to beat Tennessee, but he wouldn't budge on Temple.
Joseph is abstaining so far, but since he doesn't follow the sport too closely, I'll still try to get him to fill out a bracket in the morning. He was either first or second place last year.
Notes of Interest:
Nadine and Paul missed-guessed the exact same games.
Jensen was the only one who picked the West Virginia-Arizona game right.
Paul was the only one who picked the BYU-Texas A&M game right.
Jensen's bracket was almost destroyed by Belmont, a 15 seed who lost to 2 seed Duke by one point and had a shot to win it. Jensen has picked Duke to win it all.
The five particpants have chosen four different champions.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
First Contact
So, I've enjoyed reading other people's blogs so much that I have fanciful ideas of doing one of my my own. I've come up with a name for the blog so now social decorum dictates that there actually be content.
Yeah . . . . . I knew there'd be a catch.
You see, I''m not sure that I'll find personal fulfillment in blogging unless I find personal gratification through people reading my quips and anecdotes, then finding them interesting enough to actually comment on. I suppose that I may have to rely on the odd mercy comment by those who might love me more than others. And that may still be setting the expectation bar pretty high.
I read my sister's blog to keep up on family news and to see if I get mentioned once or twice a month. I read Bryn's blog because she can take the mundane and make it most entertaining. And she can take the embarrassing and funny, and make Jamba Juice squirt out my nose.
That is the extent of my patronage of the arts so far, so I can't expect much from the masses. Still, I will try to be interesting if you will try to be entertained.
Yeah . . . . . I knew there'd be a catch.
You see, I''m not sure that I'll find personal fulfillment in blogging unless I find personal gratification through people reading my quips and anecdotes, then finding them interesting enough to actually comment on. I suppose that I may have to rely on the odd mercy comment by those who might love me more than others. And that may still be setting the expectation bar pretty high.
I read my sister's blog to keep up on family news and to see if I get mentioned once or twice a month. I read Bryn's blog because she can take the mundane and make it most entertaining. And she can take the embarrassing and funny, and make Jamba Juice squirt out my nose.
That is the extent of my patronage of the arts so far, so I can't expect much from the masses. Still, I will try to be interesting if you will try to be entertained.
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