The last words of my post yesterday were “No Fireball today.”<\/p>\n
Famous last words.<\/p>\n
I got to the Blind Bear a few minutes after 11, and B-RAD and Jamie were there. Before 11:20 I found myself doing a shot of Grand Marnier. Then Jason and Joeybagadonuts showed up and ordered breakfast shots. “And get Paul a shot of Fireball.” Geez. Then Rahul and Tony showed up. Rahul asked me to rub his shoulders. I said no. Then he asked me to dance and asked if I wanted to make out. I needed another shot of Fireball to put that conversation out of my mind. Rahul, I’m not easy. You have to at least take me out to dinner first. And if you take me to someplace like Chili’s, forget about it. Put some thought into it.<\/p>\n
Selection Sunday came on at 5, and my Hogs were rewarded with a 5 seed in the NCAA tournament in what looks like a rather soft region. Overrated North Carolina is the 4 seed the Razorbacks could potentially play on Saturday. The Hogs are having their best season since the Nolan Richardson\/Corliss Williamson\/Scotty Thurman years, and I think they could take down the Tar Heels. Then again, North Carolina may not even make it to Saturday: They have to play Harvard in a game many are seeing as a potential upset.<\/p>\n
The only school in the West bracket with Arkansas that truly scares me is ‘Zona, although I have to admit I am not much familiar with Wisconsin.<\/p>\n
Heh. Ole Miss has to play in the “First Four” play-in game. They play BYU tomorrow at 8:10. I will be rooting for the Cougars in this one.<\/p>\n
For those schools in the same bracket as Kentucky: I truly feel sorry for you. Kentucky manhandled the Razorbacks in the SEC tournament finals yesterday.The NCAA tournament is really about seeing who the second-best team in the country is, because it looks like a foregone conclusion that Kentucky will win. In that region, Valpo over Maryland is an upset I expect to happen.<\/p>\n
As for the Memphis Tigers, they didn’t even make the NIT<\/a>.<\/p>\n FiveThirtyEight has posted their statistical predictions for the NCAA tournament bracket<\/a>, giving Kentucky a 41% chance to win it all.<\/p>\n Here’s a US map of where you can legally drink alcohol on the streets<\/a>. I will file this map under “Places I want to visit one day.”<\/p>\n After saying the trolleys wouldn’t be back anytime soon, MATA is once again shooting for a May deadline<\/a> to have some kind of trolley service up and running.<\/p>\n Memphis was named as one of tour cities offering one of four cities offering the best work\/live\/play environment for millenials<\/a> by the Wall Street Journal. The others were Nashville, Brooklyn, and Portland.<\/p>\n If you missed the Beale Street St. Pat’s parade, the Memphis Flyer has pictures<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sometimes you have to listen to what’s not being said. That’s the lesson I learned this weekend. I just wished I’d learned it Saturday afternoon rather than Monday morning. I have a feeling that although I meant well, I made life more difficult for a friend than I meant to. Friend, if you’re reading this check your Facebook messages. The last one I sent (meaning, the one where I wasn’t drunk or hung over) is radically different from the others.<\/p>\n I’ll be out after work. Not sure if I will do Melissa Monday at Bardog or shake up the schedule a bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The last words of my post yesterday were “No Fireball today.” Famous last words. I got to the Blind Bear a few minutes after 11, and B-RAD and Jamie were there. Before 11:20 I found myself doing a shot of Grand Marnier. Then Jason and Joeybagadonuts showed up and ordered breakfast shots. “And get Paul … Continue reading “Monday update”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16045"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16046,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16045\/revisions\/16046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}