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St. Patrick's Day 2008

Monday, Mar. 17, 2008 - 8:25 a.m.

Yesterday, John and I drove down to old Mountain View to have dinner with Terry Whittier, whom we hadn't seen in many moons.

We ate dinner at a Mongolian barbecue place called Colonel Lee's, and by coincidence, this was the last night of operations before it closed for renovations.

We had a really good visit, and the food was wonderful.

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Halle Berry had a baby girl; I hope everybody is fine.

I hope Miz Berry doesn't have plans to put her snowflake in a California public school; twenty years ago this state voted to have a lottery, with a bunch of the profits going to education.

Then the state started cutting the education budget and relying on the lottery money.

Now, even though we wanted a twenty-to-one ratio between students and instructors, the state says no homeschooling without a certificate, and went ahead and canned a bunch of teachers due to budget cuts.

I'd rather see the administrative middle management running the state lottery take this hit rather than the instructors themselves.

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John actually took this day off as a personal holiday; we're going to watch Irish DVDs all day today after he gets home from the chiropractor. On tap is The Commitments, Once, The Quiet Man, Darby O'Gill and the Little People, and at least one or two others that I can't think of.

Did you all know that St Patrick's Day wasn't celebrated to this extent over in Ireland until just a little over ten years ago?

This is really more of a holiday for the expatriates.

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Everybody is Irish for twenty-four hours a year.

Have a safe and lucky St. Patrick's Day.

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