So the NCAA tournament ended last night and, frankly, I don’t care who won.
See, I don’t give two shits about college basketball when I don’t have money riding on it, and, since I was statistically eliminated from contention in the work tournament pool after Kansas and Memphis won their respective Final Four games over the weekend, I can finally get back to pretending college hoops don’t exist.
It wasn’t a total loss, though. As you can see in the picture, I ended up taking in $50 as the winner of the secondary pool (one where you pick your favorite #1 seed, #2 seed, etc., and earn then number of points equal to their seed every time your picks win a game). Clinched that after the first weekend of games, so now I’m fifty bucks closer to the Canon PowerShot SD1100
Until the whole Kansas/Memphis thing, I was actually in the running to take 1st and 3rd in the real pick-all-the-games pool, but one woman pulled off the upset of the tournament by claiming 1st, 2nd, and 3rd all by her lonesome. She paid three entry fees for a single bracket that ended up earning more points than any others. Since she essentially ended up in a menage a trois tie with herself for 1st, she snagged all the cash (about $125 total, I think). Brilliant.
Glad that’s over, though. Like I mentioned before, I totally didn’t want to become Tournament Guy around the office. Turned out a bit better than I expected, but I’m happy to return to my regular role as Dork Who Nobody Has To Talk To.
Oh, and one completely unrelated note. Today, Anikka, my little princess and your future ruler, turns four. Feel free to deluge the comments with birthday wishes.
In case you’ve never had the pleasure of meeting Her Highness, here’s a picture from around her last birthday:
