Well today is a happy day. It is NCAA Tourney Thursday and the beginning of the Tournament, with nothing but basketball all day and night for the next 11 days. At espn.com, I filled out the maximum number of brackets, which is 10, with the following team names:
Team O'Diarrhea
Team Slyders (after the White Castle lunch from yesterday)
Team Pomegranate (after the new Pomegranate 7-up soda)
Team Drew's Crew (after Drew Carey on the Price is Right)
Team Upset
Team Bona-fide (after those Popeye's Chicken commercials & latest catch-phrase)
Team Constipation
Team Tortas (after Friday's lunch)
Team Snow Storm (they just seem to keep coming)
Team Bozo
I was going to use "Team Screaming Veal" but I ran out of brackets & time. Last year, one of my 5 brackets pulled in a career best 92%, easily destroying the competition in the group. Nothing much that I want to discuss, other than I hope for an early Notre Dame exit, very few upsets and UCLA seems to have the easiest path to the Final Four. To kick off the Tourney, for lunch I heated up some homemade chicken egg noodle soup, and made some chili burritos, with flour tortillas, chili, shredded cheddar, minced sweet onion and sour cream. It was delicious and was inspired by a friend's potato chip dip recipe.
And btw, this reality show "Moment of Truth" is total b.s. It seems like unless the contestant quits early, they end up losing tons of money because of the polygraph. Before they play the game, they ask a contestant a bunch of questions, including embarrassing and potentially marriage / relationship destroying ones while wearing a polygraph. Which in itself is flawed because those things are not 100%. So last night this female model was asked "Have you ever had sex to advance in your career" or something, and she said a firm "No" and the poly said otherwise. She looked pretty pissed off, and looked like she was gonna kick her chair over and burn the place down, with $100,000 at stake. The final total possible is $500,000, and so far this show has given away very little cash amounts. It's total b.s. that they can't see the polygraph results either. If they asked me on the show if I had ever been on the Moon, and they said I did, then I'd threatened to sue their ass, drop F-bomb after F-bomb, and at least trash the stage.
Finally, Chicagoland is already under a Winter Storm Warning, despite it being crystal clear sunny outside right now. Spring started this morning and quite frankly, I'm getting sick and tired of the prospect of more snow, tho it's supposed to be much worse near the IL/WI border, but some models are forecasting the cold to move further south later this evening and into tomorrow. Several inches of heavy 7" to 1" snow to water ratio "heart attack snow" is possible, tho I'm rather suspect. It seems these idiots never pick the correct forecast.
Edit: watching the Kentucky / Marquette game right now. Very, very few fans in the seats there in Anaheim. Marquette being a southern Wisconsin team, pretty much the only semi-regional team near the Chicagoland area in the tournament.