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Neal, Ginger, Debbie, Janeil: Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Well, time for inventory, lads!

Jameson & ginger? Check!

Irish root beer? Check!

Irish car bomb (Irish-American version of a boilermaker)? Check!  Check! Check! Even one with Ginger.  Check!

Guinness? Check!

Free shots of Jameson, courtesy of the Jameson girls and the fellow who looks like a leprechaun and is losing more and more hair every year? Check!

Thanks to Team Apache and Southern Jamm Security.

Out at Mason’s Pub on a warm spring evening, even if the featured band played British tunes (Beatles?) on St. Paddy’s Day.

But Jocelyn took good care of us on a crowded night, looking herself like Andrea Corr of The Boys & Girls of County Clare.

What, with David Bjorne, Elizabeth Neely, Ginger (but not Maryanne) and Debbie and Neal Redmond adding friendly conversation, I felt like I was home.

Or maybe at Dromoland Castle with a company Christmas party back in 2005, a fellow company man and his beautiful girlfriend sharing a ciggy or fag on a night of drinking and dancing where what happens in Ireland stays in Ireland.  But now he’s permanently livin’ in the States.  Too bad the band tonight wasn’t playin’ Irish fiddle tunes again, eh?  I sure miss his girlfriend but the secret stays with me, doesn’t it?

The Greek invented everything, did they?  What of Duke’s Malibu?

Have you ever worn beer Jameson goggles glasses?

What if your six-year old looked like your hubby but acted like you, your four-year old looked like you but acted like your hubby, and your two-year old was in-between but seemed like one of her grandmothers?  Could I inspire Ginger and her hubby to have a fourth child?  At 40, my dear, you still look and act like you’re 21.  Your husband’s still a lucky man.

Just like Debbie looks like she’s 35 although she’s about to be a grandmother.  Neal, I’m envious.

And Michael of Booz Allen fame from the UCP event showing up again tonight.  Coincidence?

Top o’ the mornin’ to you.

…and the balance of the day to yourself…

I’ve me wife.  G’night.  Hope you had a good day wearin’ green.