Friday, March 19, 2004
D'OHHHH!!!!
I was so on a roll yesterday only to have a complete collapse in the evening games!! The last 4 games ( AZ/Seton Hall; Dayton/DePaul; Zags/Valpo; and AF/NC) absolutely destroyed all my hopes!!! I was 11 for 12 going into these last 4 games of the night. I think I cursed myself by calling Blair to tell him that I was 11 for 12 - damn you sports jinks. I had AZ, Dayton, and Air Force picked on the 3 games and they all lost!!! What the freak?? I called the Zags for my brackets, but they beat Valpo by 20+ which cost me winning my first parlay bet. Tragic. Want to know what is more tragic??? Arizona/Seton Hall was the first game of my second parlay bet and Arizona lost - now out of both bets.
All things new today though and I haven't lost any Sweet 16 teams yet!! My upset watches: Murry State & Louisville. Better not lose: Louisville & Kansas & Vandy!! Good luck to all (unless you are betting against me). Cheers!
Thursday, March 18, 2004
UPDATE!! UPDATE!!!
Manhattan and Tech won so I'm looking quite good on one of my parlay bets!! I know you all were dying to know. Cheers.
Manhattan and Tech won so I'm looking quite good on one of my parlay bets!! I know you all were dying to know. Cheers.
LET THE MADNESS BEGIN!!!!!
It just doesn't get much better then March!! Spring Training, college baseball in full swing, and of course - March Madness!!! My brackets are in, my $ is paid, and tragically I'm at the office. Shouldn't the first 2 days of games be a national holiday?? That's my new swing issue - whatever canidate will push for these to be national holidays has my vote!! I've got a friend in Vegas right now, so I got to put a couple parlay bets down on a few teams. I've got two 3 team parlays down. The first: Arizona, Murry St, & Kansas. The second: Tx Tech, Manahattan, & Valpo. GOOD TIMES!!!
Why am I blogging this week?? NO ONE IS HERE!!!!
It just doesn't get much better then March!! Spring Training, college baseball in full swing, and of course - March Madness!!! My brackets are in, my $ is paid, and tragically I'm at the office. Shouldn't the first 2 days of games be a national holiday?? That's my new swing issue - whatever canidate will push for these to be national holidays has my vote!! I've got a friend in Vegas right now, so I got to put a couple parlay bets down on a few teams. I've got two 3 team parlays down. The first: Arizona, Murry St, & Kansas. The second: Tx Tech, Manahattan, & Valpo. GOOD TIMES!!!
Why am I blogging this week?? NO ONE IS HERE!!!!
Wednesday, March 17, 2004
The Luck Of The Irish Is With Me
Happy St Patty's Day! I woke up this morning and did my usual thing of getting up, take a shower, get ready, and head to Starbuck's (although I actually shook things up a bit today and went to Benny's Bagels - craziness, I know). On the way to work I flipped the radio on to and heard that it was St Patrick's Day. Crap! I completely forgot it was St Patrick's Day! OH BUT WAIT..... That's right, kids - I've got a green shirt on anyway. Yes, it was calling in my blood today to wear green. Something deep down just made me instinctively know that I needed to wear my green shirt today. It runs deep my friends, it runs deep.
Happy St Patty's Day! I woke up this morning and did my usual thing of getting up, take a shower, get ready, and head to Starbuck's (although I actually shook things up a bit today and went to Benny's Bagels - craziness, I know). On the way to work I flipped the radio on to and heard that it was St Patrick's Day. Crap! I completely forgot it was St Patrick's Day! OH BUT WAIT..... That's right, kids - I've got a green shirt on anyway. Yes, it was calling in my blood today to wear green. Something deep down just made me instinctively know that I needed to wear my green shirt today. It runs deep my friends, it runs deep.
Tuesday, March 16, 2004
Near Traumatic Experience!
I logged into my Hotmail account to find a very disturbing e-mail from TiVo today. "Problem With Your TiVo Account". The e-mail: we were unable to bill your account this month, please contact us or your service will be interrupted. NO BUENO!!! What would I do without TiVo?? How would I watch West Wing tomorrow, who would tape friends for me, would I miss Scrubs this week?? All of this racing through my head as I quickly called the TiVo hotline! At first I thought this was going to be a great TiVo experience when they picked up the line. I got the usual recording and menu - HOWEVER between menu selection was the TiVo "bla blop". Music to my ears - thank you for that TiVo! Tragically though, this experience was about to go downhill. I knew what the issue was - I had canceled my credit card that they had on file and just needed to give them a new one. I finally got to the option to speak to a live agent and the estimated wait-time quote was as: "an extremely long period of time". Not so much music to the ears. I will say they were honest though - it was an extremely long period of time before someone answered me. She was very helpful though and was quickly back up and running (You can breathe now, Craig - TiVo has been restored and all is right in the world once again). FYI, as of now the TiVo "bla blop" is not available in ringer tones.
Cheers - Tom
I logged into my Hotmail account to find a very disturbing e-mail from TiVo today. "Problem With Your TiVo Account". The e-mail: we were unable to bill your account this month, please contact us or your service will be interrupted. NO BUENO!!! What would I do without TiVo?? How would I watch West Wing tomorrow, who would tape friends for me, would I miss Scrubs this week?? All of this racing through my head as I quickly called the TiVo hotline! At first I thought this was going to be a great TiVo experience when they picked up the line. I got the usual recording and menu - HOWEVER between menu selection was the TiVo "bla blop". Music to my ears - thank you for that TiVo! Tragically though, this experience was about to go downhill. I knew what the issue was - I had canceled my credit card that they had on file and just needed to give them a new one. I finally got to the option to speak to a live agent and the estimated wait-time quote was as: "an extremely long period of time". Not so much music to the ears. I will say they were honest though - it was an extremely long period of time before someone answered me. She was very helpful though and was quickly back up and running (You can breathe now, Craig - TiVo has been restored and all is right in the world once again). FYI, as of now the TiVo "bla blop" is not available in ringer tones.
Cheers - Tom
