Big Leather Couch

Not sure I have mentioned here, but my beautiful bride has taken a new job.  She love working for Aflac, but ummm...well, she got a offer from a company in her old space Medical Records and she decided to take. it

Upside, it is a great job and Nancy will be back doing what she truly loves and knows.  Downside is her territory is three states and she will often be away from home during the week. Funny, in the past it was me traveling all the time.

I am also now responsible for Peter...ah, raising a teen again.  Not raising, but finding a good space for us to exist and enforcing the rules of the house.  Pray for me Argentina...

LOL

I have not watched that singing show

I don't really need to, they all know which show I am talking about

Hey, have you heard Music On The Couch and my interviews with Lucy Hammond and J.P. Corwyn?

WOW.

Lucy Hammond has this big bold personality and is funny as hell. Then J.P. Corwyncomes on and it was like my long lost red-headed stepchild brother had escaped the attic (ya gotta listen to understand) and was on the show with me. And Lucy stayed around and I popped her phone live and the three of us just got crazy while talking about their lives and their music.They bonded and will be talking about sharing resources.  And Dusty from Robodrum was in chat (as he always is, loyal fan that he is), and he had some things he and JP were going to talk about.

AND...you will find out what happens when J.P., Lucy and Dusty have a hit record and are given a Grammy! OH the wonder of it all!

Hope you take the time to listen and let me know what you thought.

See y'all tomorrow with another FIVE ON FRIDAY!

So, how YOU doin'? Come on, fess up, how are your NCAA pools going?

You either bet a few quid on it in your office or with a group of friends or you went on one of the sites and filed out a bracket, just so you said you had one.

The world fills out a bracket in March for the madness. This year I had 4.

Pool # 1 was Jay and Doc's Blog and Twitter League. No cash value, just for fun. Bad news is that I did the pool on cbssports where it was last year. Except this year they moved it to Yahoo! Good news is one other person did the same thing and I am ahead of them(barely) by three points, but my overall pick, Georgetown is out of the dance... BIG LOSER!

Pool #2 is with my company. People from all the offices could enter. No cash value, just for fun. I am in 25th spot out of 76 participants with 31 correct and the eventual winner San Diego State still in it. Not too shabby.

Pool #3 is one with my client and the agency. I am 12th out of 15 people with 25 correct, but eventual champ Texas is out. LOSER.

Pool #4 is a pool that benefits my son's high school baseball team and is pretty competitive. I have placed in the top 10 a few times. This year I am 24th out of 126 places with eventual champ Villanova eliminated.

All if these pools have one thing in common other than they range from mediocre to horrible in their prognostication. That one thing is I did not make one pick on these brackets.

I went to the site Accuscore.com and used their AccuScore March Madness Bracketcaster. You click the button and it populates round by round. As it says on the site:

AccuScore simulates every possible pairing to determine the exact probability each team has of beating every other team in the tournament. Each time you simulate the tournament you will get a slightly or very different picture of what might happen. For example, if Syracuse has a 96% chance of winning their first round match-up, a vast majority of simulations will have Syracuse advancing, but once every 25 times or so you will see a major simulated upset.

I had heard this on the local sports radio and decided to see what would happen. As I was in four pools I thought it would be a good representation.

When it populates each round it does point out where they might have predicted an upset. You can change that if you care to, but I did not. I let "the 'puter do it..."

So I did the Bracketcaster four times. I even logged out of the site before each new attempt, though I am not sure if they track by ip and it is a return visit.

None the less, those are the results that this site came up with for my four brackets.

Maybe if I had done it one more time, I would have gotten the winning ticket...

This week:
LUCY HAMMOND
and
JP CORWYN
Sit On
The Couch

From the Pacific Northwest comes the soulful blues sounds of the Lucy Hammond Band. Ms. Hammond will join me on The Couch to discuss her early life where she began performing at the age of 6.

Lucy was a force on the Portland music scene in the 80's before 'retiring' to have a family. Now back and singing the blues we will discuss her upcoming EP "Proof" and the road she is taking to get it released.

I will also sit with JP Corwyn, an alternative rocker with a taste for acoustic rock. Born with a degenerative condition, he has been legally blind since birth.

He declared he wanted to be a musician at age 5 and has fulfilled that dream now having released two albums and an EP. A native Long Islander, JP now lives in Seminole, Florida. We will listen to cuts from his 2010 release "The White Cane Conspiracy" and discuss where JP is heading in 2011.

Join me as I sit with Lucy and JP and introduce y'all to musicians you should know.
We will take your calls and questions for both guests at 1.347.633.9400.

The live interactive chat room opens 20 minutes before show time. Follow this link HERE and click on the Chat Now icon. Come hang with the fans and musicians who visit each week.

Remember, unless you take the two minutes to register, you will not be able to participate in the chat room or send me questions to ask our guests, but you will still hear the show.

So tune in on Monday evening or remember, you can always listen anytime after the show ends from the player HERE or check out Music On The Couch for additional artist information, and show recaps.

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