As ususal my bracket picks were toast 5 minutes after the first games started on Thursday. I usually flip a coin on every game heads I pick the lower seeded team. But this time Brooke had 2 schools in the tournament,Harvard and Missouri, so I picked them to go all the way to the final with Missouri winning.
I also applied another rule. I picked the state school over it ‘s opponent say Kentucky over Iowa State. If two state universities were playing I flipped a coin. All the other games I used the coin.
I say a coin but it was really the random number generator on my task picker worksheet. Odd numbers I went for the favorite, 0 and evens the longshot. I broke my rule one game because Southern Mississippi beat UH for the C-USA football championship.
I lucked out on a few games but as you can see on the PDF I’ve got more red than newspaper’s balance sheet. Kansas is my last hope for a pick in the Final Four. I have to admit feeling satisfaction watching a randomly picked team mess up all the expert’s picks.
Last night we played music trivia at Mike’s Place. They have great appetizers there. Two in particular, the fried mushrooms and fried jalapeno slices. We had been looking for great mushrooms near us for years. Nobody could beat Mulligans, a defunct bar on FM 1960 in Humble, over 40 miles from the house.
These jalapeno slices are for people who like to pour pepper and Tabasco on their fried pickles.