Happy Saint Patrick's Day. This particular iteration of St. Patrick's Day (the 25th Edition) was relatively uneventful for me. We took the new cats and their poop to Pender Vet for a check-up and de-worming treatment, and then I came home, did some work involving submission statuses, threw a corned beef in the crock pot, and cleaned up the kitchen. The only real interesting facet of this entry is that I actually had to count up from 1979, because I couldn't remember how old I was.

St. Patrick's Day was usually hard for me in school, because my colour-blindness resulted in a paucity of green attire. Generally, I taped a dollar bill around my finger and called it a day. In honour of exciting St. Patrick's Days, here are some things I've done in the past:

• 1994: Went to the funeral of a high school crew coach who died from complications in a sledding accident at the Masonic Temple
• 1995: Took three tests: physics, vocabulary, and history. 11th grade vocabulary tests were always easy because they were multiple-choice and the teacher thought she was clever by spelling things like UNCOPYWRIGHTABLE and POUCHFITZGERALD with the answers. Apparently she couldn't think up any other recognizable words because she alternated with those two every couple weeks.
• 1996: Went to a Crew Open Boathouse and then had corned beef for dinner (It was a Sunday).
• 1997: No recollection.
• 1998: Played trumpet at Convocation at Tech, the first movement of my trumpet concerto, The Hero.
• 1999: Nothing notable.
• 2000: Home for spring break and spent all day working on an aborted IF game, Robin Caruso (see the Archive for details).
• 2001: Nothing notable.
• 2002: Finished composing a string quartet and went to a bar for some pool.
• 2003: Hung out with friends in Florida at a bar while Booty made a web page (see the Archive for details).
• 2004: Nothing notable.
• 2005: How will this holiday compare? Only time will tell.