Pretty sure she was operating an illegal sweat-shop in her basement, and hosted private blackjack tournaments there as well, but thatās for another day.
The Shitter was a special place. A few fun facts about our old home since we donāt play todayā¦
Fun Fact #1: Used to be a country store and the āliving roomā used to be the butcher shop. Had a drain smack-dab on the center of the living room which allowed us to hose it down after parties. Came in handy.
Fun Fact #2: The house/structure was universally recognized by officials as the biggest fire hazard in Albemarle County. Came home one day from class and there were about 8 people standing on our porch. They were from the city inspectors office and I had to lead fire officials through a 90 minute inspection of the place, in which, they found over 50 code violations. Not sure how we were able to stay there after that. Incredible location though.
Fun Fact #3: We had a two week battle with chemically altered rodents that must have escaped from an animal testing facility. First pest control guy came and set up traps. I told him they werenāt big enough (they were like standard size mouse traps). Two went off while we were talking to him and we went back to see what we caught. The traps were gone because the rats were so big. He came back with bear trap sized units later in the day and he baited the traps with Cadbury Cream eggs. We started catching monster Cat-sized rats soon after. Biggest rats I have ever seen and I lived in NYC. Got about 12-15 the first week and then he poisoned them all.
My favorite part was we had a roommate from upstate NY who just showed up mid semester one day with no bag and a lacrosse stick and never left. Absolute legend we just gave our basketball gear to so he could have clothes. Also he never once slept ever. 100 percent chance when you came home or woke up or did anything he would be sitting in the living room chair with his lacrosse stick watching Espn
RIP Mike McGrane. Graney!
Edit: this is actually a true story. Also he was like a community college Lax AA before being mysteriously air dropped into The Shitter
Thatās kind of a wild coincidence in that we had a few mice when we moved into the house, but resolved them quickly and havenāt seen any in a decadeā¦ until a couple weeks ago when my younger daughter decided she liked Cadbury Creme Eggs. She bought a box of like 8 of them, kept them in her bathroom and planned to eat them periodically while taking baths.
She got to eat one before mice arrived en masse and stole them all out of the box off the counter. It was kind of amazing because not only did they magically detect she had them and showed up within 48 hours of the eggs arrival (and were a problem nowhere else in the house), but the mice were small (I know this because I gradually killed them all with traps). Like the biggest of the mice were at best slightly bigger than the eggs.
How the hell did the mice (there were ~5 of them) steal 7 creme eggs, roughly their size, in one night? Thatās some Egyptians-building-the-Pyramids level engineering shit. We found one of the eggs partially eaten on the bathroom floor, but the rest were never seen again. Where did they go? Iām guessing my daughter ate more of the eggs, and faster, than she wants to admit, but the mice even stealing and disappearing one egg was pretty damn impressive.
After I finished reading that bookā¦ I felt like I didnāt absorb anythingā¦ Iām not sure why that book was such a success. Lincoln on Leadership was better.
Not ashamed to admit I know who that is (also not ashamed to admit that Iāve had some real dark nights of the soul after binging that show - like, maybe we are doomed as a speciesā¦)
I was thinking it was odd that just these teams add up to more than the final five spots in the bracket:
The reason is that the potential bid donorsāRichmond and South Floridaāappear in only 65/104 and 74/104 brackets. So if Dayton and FAU win the A10 and American tourneys to knock them out, it does create two extra at-larges spots in the bracket but not two full spotsā worth of empty slots in brackets.
If Richmond/South Florida or any non-Dayton/FAU teams win those tourneys, UVA would lose some of the brackets itās in because the winners would appear in 100% of brackets instead of the current 70-ish%.
Bottom line: if Dayton and/or FAU lose this week and nothing else changed (impossible), weād be in fewer than our current 91% of brackets.
One day my encyclopedic knowledge of reality shows will pave the way to my domination of the tri-state area. Not entirely sure how yet, but Iām confident.
