Friday 19th 2004f March 2004

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Patrick’s Day

A , posted by Anthony during lunch time.

Nothing much happened on St. Patrick’s Day, rather disappointingly. The weather was bad – it was cold and windy and snowing – so I couldn’t motivate myself to go to the parade. I spoke to a few people about it, and it seems that it’s really just people walking. They don’t even have floats! They should really get ATA Security in there to get the whole thing going.
I can understand from talking to various Irish-Americans that the parade is important to them in asserting and celebrating their Irish identity, but I reckon since I actually have the accent and the passport I can forego the five hours in the snow.
But I wasn’t going to forego the drinking. I started off at about 4pm in The Scratcher, but it was pretty quiet. Anita, the barmaid there I know, told me it was incredibly quiet compared to previous years. I had a few pints, and headed down to the Eleventh Street Bar, where I was going to meet various people.
I met them, and drank, but the L train was stopping at midnight, and it wasn’t really exciting enough for me to give myself a real headache trying to get home. So I caught the last L, and was in bed by 1am.
Don’t get me wrong, I was fairly drunk, but it wasn’t exactly wild. Getting to bed that early did mean that I was able to come here to the library and write the next day – I had provisionally decided to take it off as “hangover recovery day” – so all’s well I suppose.

In other news, currently 62.5% of you think I should do the movie. You don’t realise quite how much work or quite how stressful that will be, but I’m thinking about it.

I’ve been working on reducing spam for the last couple of days (while not writing). Having a website really makes you a target. Spamassassin came installed on my server, so I’m using that for email spam. I’ve also been using MT-Blacklist to limit comment spam. Now I’m using Junkeater to cut down on Guestbook spam, and taking the advice in this article to deal with referer spam. It’s a wearying business. Spammers should be all dragged into the street and shot like dogs. Right now. I’m serious.

Good news! It seems that Smithwicks is here at last! I actually managed to drink some in a bar last night. Tasted good, but I think I may be too hooked on the Guinness now to really ever return to my previous favourite tipple. Ah, decision, decisions…

Comments on "Patrick’s Day"

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    Comment ID: 1345

    At 2:16 pm on Friday 19th 2004f March 2004, Nigel channelled

    So, it wasn’t unlike mine then …

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    At 2:36 pm on Friday 19th 2004f March 2004, Anthony felt the urge to write

    No, not very.

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    At 6:57 am on Monday 22nd 2004f March 2004, Babs posted

    Told ya ya should have gone to the parade!! Really is more than just people walking, seriously!!

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    Comment ID: 1348

    At 6:59 am on Monday 22nd 2004f March 2004, Babs asserted

    And I spent nearly a half hour at that damned ESP game I discovered in here.

    Sheesh.

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    Comment ID: 1349

    At 11:58 am on Monday 22nd 2004f March 2004, Anthony posted

    Yeah, that thing’s addictive. I had to do the whole twelve steps thing after a while.

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    At 11:18 pm on Monday 22nd 2004f March 2004, Babs testified

    It wasn’t my fault really, though, Trash kept MAKING me play again!!!

    I don’t have the DT’s, I DON’T have the DT’s…........

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    Comment ID: 1351

    At 11:19 pm on Monday 22nd 2004f March 2004, Babs discoursed

    Ever try the 20 questions game?? That’s ever MORE addicting….and again it was all Trashs fault

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