I wrote “looks like” above. It would be more impressive if that entry didn’t have Syracuse in the Final Four. Which is to say, I have nowhere to go but down, and with Gonzaga’s loss, I’m already headed that way. And you can see from the copy below my entries, there were nearly 7,000 people with perfect brackets after the first round. Unbelievable! There were 3, 4, 5, and 6 seeds that were upset, and those are hard to call, let alone all of them.

Though I kind of wonder, with almost three million entries, if that isn’t the equivalent of a million monkeys banging on typewriters. Somebody somewhere has to end up with a perfect bracket, right?

Not me, not this year…

• Illinois is overrated; I’ve picked them to go deep in the past, and always regretted it. Of course, they have a new coach this year, so maybe that’ll change. But I have Oklahoma St. in the Final Four.

• Speaking of coaches that have let me down, I don’t have Kansas going very far.

• On the other hand, I think this is Roy Williams’s year, and predict UNC to win it all.

• If it isn’t North Carolina, it’ll be Connecticut.

• I’ll be rooting for Duke in every game, but I’m afraid they probably aren’t deep enough to really go as far as I’ve picked them.

• If Duke and Kentucky meet up in the regional final, well, that would be cool.

• Is this Gonzaga’s year to reach the Final Four? I’ll definitely take them over Wake Forest (yet another team that has busted my brackets in the past, by losing way before they are supposed to).

• My biggest upset pick is West Virginia over Wake. My 12-over-5 is Old Dominion over Michigan St.

• I dunno about Washington. A #1 seed from the Pac 10 that’s not Arizona? I just haven’t seen them play enough to think this is a good thing.

• I expect that East Coast basketball fans are hoping for a Washington-GT matchup in the third round, so they can watch the ACC deliver a good thumping.

• I definitely expect GT to beat out Louisville. Conference USA teams are consistently overrated. Cincinnati, I’m looking at you.

• Texas, Stanford, and Cincinnati all out in the first round.

• I like UCLA over Texas Tech…but not enough to bet on it.

Let’s play!

DHI 73: I finished the list, incorporating input from Rochelle, and formatted it and printed it for our house cleaner. These instructions apparently caused much anxiety due to not completely understanding it, as our cleaner’s native language is Spanish. Perhaps a translation will be a future DHI…

DHI 74: I moved a few things to the basement, and generally rearranged the parlor, so that it would be easier to vacuum.

DHI 75: A (very) little help to Rochelle, who was on a roll Saturday night, under the influence of our decorator, some booze, and Disco Saturday Night on the radio station she listens to sometimes. Our parlor is nearly completely cleared out, and will be available for use by company and other civilized folks, instead of just me and Basta.

DHI 76: This one’s a little gross. While watching basketball I cleaned out Luigi’s ears using some Q-Tips. He had ear mites when we got him, and while those are gone, their crud remains in his ears. He doesn’t like having things stuck in his ears, though, so I only got a little way through the job. I’ll do more next weekend, while watching more basketball.

DHI 77: Rochelle and I went out to B & B Pet Supplies, a pet store on Geary, and picked out a groovy new cat climbing tree for Billie. It’s five (cat) stories tall, and Billie has already learned that she can defend the top story from all attackers, which makes her very, very happy.

So another week without a full list of achievements, but considering I took Thursday and Friday off to watch basketball in a sports bar, and sat in bed all day Saturday and Sunday, again to watch basketball, this is an amazing level of productivity.

DHI 65: I’m gonna count this, because we really did try. We wanted to try a more stable frame for the bed, and bought a really heavy-duty frame at the Salvation Army the other weekend. Tonight we tried to put it together and move the bed to it. Unfortunately, the frame is a king size, and we have a queen mattress. Ah, well…

DHI 66: Carried a bunch of stuff down to the basement, including the heavy-duty bed frame that didn’t fit our bed, above.

DHI 67: Charged the portable jump-start unit, and put velcro strips on it so it can be mounted in my trunk, and mounted it.

DHI 68: Met with two cat behaviorists, who are helping us achieve peace in our own time. Amongst the cats, anyway.

DHI 69: Tweaked my blog a bit more, and fixed a problem with my RSS syndication feed.

Another week of only six DHIs, but this is actually amazing given that I watched nearly 10 basketball games over the week and weekend. What will be really interesting is to see how many I achieve this coming week, since I will be watching basketball nearly continuously from Thursday morning until Sunday night.