Leave it to the Catholics to have a holiday where all you do is drink. Seriously, St. Patrick's day isn't a time for family like Easter, Thanksgiving, or Christmas; it isn't a big bbq event like 4th of July, Labor Day, or Memorial Day; there are no romantic attachments like on Valentine's Day. On St. Patrick's day you drink beer. There may be a parade or two, but they sell beer there. So when you are in a place like Iraq, where there is no beer, St. Patrick's Day means nothing. They didn't even have corned beef in the chow hall.
I don't know.
This seems to have lost focus.
I think the point is that I miss home so much that I am longing to celebrate a meaningless holiday.
Though I will admit that St. Patrick's Day turned out to be my favorite it day in monthes.
Why?
Well the NCAA basketball tourny started and I was able to watch all of the games. The good people at CBS made this soldier incredibly happy by broadcasting the games over the internet for free. And the Army didn't block it either!!! They block streaming video from CNN.com but not the basketball games.
I would like to think that this is because they knew I would be watching, but I doubt it. Some general probably wanted to watch and couldn't get the firewall turned off for just his computer.
So we all win.
Yay.
I am a happy soldier.
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I've got 13 of the 16 sweet 16 teams (would have had 14 had I had the guts to stick with Georgetwon), for the first time ever I think. Why? because I really don't know shit about college basketball so I couldn't out think myself. And I'm kicking myself because I changed my picks on Montana over Nevada and Georgetown out of the Sweet 16 because I listened to the loser Espn analysists. Well, I hope you will be able to follow the next few rounds to some degree and will be able to see the terrible officiating that occurs at the college level (seriously, it's worse than the pros as far as the non-foul calls, the way they let players undercut others to try to gain charge calls).
Joe
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