The Long Road

03/17/2003 Archived Entry: "Happy St. Patrick's Day"

In honour of St. Patrick's day, I've adopted a green motif for my site. Do you like it?

There have been 17 distinct hosts hitting this site in the last 3 days! Woohoo! I was thinking that maybe five people were reading this site regularly but it looks like it's around 10. Though, not many people post comments anymore, there were quite a few when this thing got started.

In an effort to get more comments I want everyone to comment on this: "Peanuts: neither peas, nor nuts", discuss.

Here's a cool quote. Imagine a dozen very large armoured vikings saying these words as they are being rushed at by hundreds of barbarians on horse back.

"'lo there do I see my father.
'lo there do I see my mother, and my sisters, and my brothers.
'lo there do i see the line of my people, back to the begnning.
'lo they do call onto me.
They bid me take my place among them in the halls of Vahalla where the brave may live, forever."

Vahalla is the Norse heaven, just in case.

What is St. Patrick the saint of? Here's Jen Smuj with the answers(as posted by her in the comments of the last entry):
"St. Patrick, Bishop, Apostle of Ireland. The patron Saint of Ireland. Basically, here's the scoop... He was born of Calpurnius, a Roman-British deacon. At the age of 16, he was help captive in Ireland and forced to serve a heahten master, but managed to keep his Faith. Six years later he escaped but then had a dream telling him to go back to Ireland. So he studied in the monastery until he finally was consecrated Bishop (about 432) and traveled all of Ireland sowing the Faith everywhere despite much hostility. He was then commisioned by Pope Leo the Great to organize the Church of Ireland. After winning a pagan nation, St. Patrick established many monasteries for both men and women whom then went on to carry the Faith to England, France, and Switzerland. St. Patrick died on March 17, 461 after leading the life of an apostle. (source: "Lives of the Saints." New Revised Edition)

Why this means that Catholics dress up as leprauchauns and drink vast amounts of green beer in the name of a Saint who dedicated his life to God, I will never understand. But hey, why mess with tradition....pass me the Guinness. Cheers."

Replies: 3 comments

Slainte!
That's "Cheers" in gaelic. :)

Posted by Andrea @ 03/17/2003 01:59 AM EST

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, Dune eps 1-5, forget watching it on Sci-fi when you can watch it on your computer =D

Posted by Anonymous @ 03/17/2003 12:29 PM EST

Hey Thai,

Nice site.

If you're looking for a guitar you should go check out songbird at bank and gladstone. You could probably find a nice cheap accoustic for about $100. You might also want to check out ebay, but you never know what the guitar is going to sound like so it's kind of a craps shoot. You should probably start with an accoustic instead of an electric, that way you don't need to buy an amp. Also, you won't waste time fiddling with knobs and buttons when you could be practicing. Accoustic will also give you better technique, electrics with distortion tend to cover up mistakes.

I just bought a new speaker cabinet for my amp, can't wait until it gets here.

Sorry I didn't get back to you earlier, last week was nuts here. I was working on the census and it was released on Tuesday, so we had all types of media requests coming in from across Canada.

Good luck at school.

Later

Posted by Greg @ 03/17/2003 03:53 PM EST