Tourney Time!

Before I started to fill out my bracket tonight I was thinking Iowa really has the kind of team that could make a nice run this year.  Then I printed it out and realized they didn't make the tourney at all.  They did win their first game of the NIT so there is that.  On the other hand, Wisconsin is a fifth seed and they have a pretty smooth ride to the Final Four.  Hopefully I didn't jinx them.  Did you know that Forbes listed Wisconsin the 7th most valuable college basketball team in all the land?  I can almost do one better.  Did you know that Cosmo named Mike Bruesewitz the 16th hottest player in the tourney?  Did I mention he plays for Wisconsin?  Wisco, they have all the hot gingers.  So if you're looking for a really tall Cosmo-hot rich ginger than start watching Wisco basketball.  First game is Friday at 11:40 on that sports network - what is it called again??? - oh ya True TV.  That makes tons of sense.  True, true.

Anyway the whole thing gets under way tomorrow so we thought it would be fun to have Quinny fill out a bracket.  Well, let's just say that he picked a lot of upsets.  He's a fan of Florida so he picked both Miami and the University of Florida to make the Final Four.  (He also picked Florida Gulf Coast University to make it to the Sweet Sixteen).  Apparently, he's also a fan of New Mexico because he picked both New Mexico State and New Mexico to make the Final Four as well.  The eventual champion?  That would be Florida.  I will be upset if he upsets me in our household tourney.  If he wins the million dollars, less so.

Fence is 4' Ugh!

It's a good thing 12 hours a day of TV is about to come on because winter won't let up!  It was a whopping 10 this morning to start our first day of spring.  Yowsers!  I don't think winter is ever going to end.  My buddies and I have Opening Day for the Brewers and a few other baseball games starting next Friday.  And we aren't soft yet either, presumably that comes later like when we hit our 40s, so we're talking about a solid six hours in the parking lot tailgating in our newly built igloo.  Now we've been there plenty of times while it's snowing but the Brewers have never had to clear the parking lot of snow to let us in and the major snow removal project began today to get ready for the fans.  The good news is we won't need ice this year for the coolers or actually coolers at all.  The bad news is we are going to have to buy a sled to take the debauchery to a new level.

Speaking of bad news our oldest took our not so old friend Mr. iPad for a little ride through the tile.  Turns out the glass screen doesn't really care to take a four foot face first fall (how about that for some alliteration!) onto the impending doom below.  iPads and tile, can't we all just get along?  What to do?  I mean at this stage the whole fam is addicted to that thing.  So I take my sorry little tail to the Apple store and plead my case.  Guess what?  They don't really care you let your over-privledged four year old play with Dad's overpriced toy.  They did exchange it for another slightly less absurd priced new one but man that sucked.  So now we have to shell out for, and I mean this literally, a military style case that supposedly can take a shelling in Afghanistan and you just dust the debris off and go back to playing Angry Birds in the trenches.  Put me down for another $100, Alex!

PS  Did you hear the Badgers put Alabama on their football schedule?  I know right?  They play at Jerry's world.  I think I have to go. Don't tell my wife.