entertainment - no cover charge - Saturday (4 of 11)

The Dublin St Patrick's parade. The parade started late because they waited for the President of Ireland's motorcade, which drove the parade route to her reviewing stand. Half of the units are from the US!

Two of interest:

Harrison High school marching band, Kennesaw GA -- from a few miles from my house. Click picture to expand it.

A group called Horizon from CO marching in windbreakers. It seems that when they flew over United Air lost their uniforms and instruments.

The parade is coming down O'Connell St. The church in the picture is at the corner of a cross street down which was our B&B. The parade was marching south toward the heart of downtown.

entertainment - no cover charge - Thursday (2 of 11)

We were waiting on the O'Connell bridge over the Liffey River in "City Center" when the entertainment for the week began. At that point the river is a dirty tidal stream 100 yds wide or so with concrete walls on each side. A fellow gets up on the bridge and jumps in!

All of sudden the Garda (National police force) and Dublin Fire show up and begin a simulation of a Chinese fire drill. After 5 or so minutes, a tour boat comes by with the fellow and someone in uniform looking over him. They docked at a nearby floating landing. The ambulance hauled him off.

Wednesday goes lost (1 of 11)

We were supposed to leave 6:40 from ATL to Dublin on Delta. But the flight filled up with misconnects from the previous night that were not redirected. So we went out on the 8:00 pm to Manchester. Spent 13 hrs in Manchester to save over $100/person. Which is where Wednesday went lost.

The flight to Dublin from Manchester is about 35 minutes. It takes that long in ATL just to taxi to the runway.

Would someone tend to the pup's pets while he is in Ireland?

pet the kitty here

Relationship issues bleed into syntax

Jim Brewster and Andrew Spano found this on Fox News online in a piece dated Mar3:

Police say a man sought revenge against his ex-girlfriend by leaving homemade DVDs of her performing sex acts on car windshields throughout the area.

At this time of year, it's a great way to catch a chill.

What are you reading?

Each year, the Frankfurt Book Fair is enlivened by the Bookseller/Diagram competition to find the oddest title of the year. Previous winners have included Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Nude Mice; Greek Rural Postmen and Their Cancellation Numbers; The Joy of Sex: Pocket Edition; How to Shit in the Woods, an Environmentally Sound Approach to a Lost Art; Highlights in the History of Concrete; Living with Crazy Buttocks; and People Who Don't Know They´re Dead: How They Attach Themselves to Unsuspecting Bystanders and What to Do About It. Among those shortlisted this year are How Green Were the Nazis?; Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Seaweed Symposium; The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: a Guide To Field Identification; and Tattooed Mountain Women and Spoon Boxes of Daghestan.

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