The stupid LJ goat is *green*...
Mar. 17th, 2003 03:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
whitereflection...and other stupid things done to 'celebrate' a 'holiday'. Wonder if all those getting plastered and eating green crud and speaking in a bad Irish accent know that St. Patrick was an English slave in Ireland who tended sheep (and had no clothes). Who then escaped back to England, became a priest, and returned to Ireland as a missionary of sorts--and who baptized, what, 2000? Something like that? (Hey, I may be agnosticish, and I may not want to be going to services, but I listen to what Michael has to say). Amazing what you'll find if you look beyond the green beer and 'driving snakes out of Ireland' stories.
Anyway, just felt like tacking on pointless observations about weather to my spamming posts of earlier today. Let's see...less than two weeks ago, we had a major snowstorm. Just over a week ago, it was really fscking cold, and there was snow and ice everywhere.
Then, in a matter of days, we go straight from 'January' to 'April'--and temps go up to the 70s, and it's sunny and balmy. Today, it's still in the upper 60s, I think, and we're supposed to have thunderstorms. From a blizzard to thunderstorms in under 14 days. Wowsers. (A person may or may not believe in global warming, or such things, but geez, the way things swing back and forth so wildly, the way things get more and more extreme heat/cold/severe storm-wise, and the way this becomes more pronounced with each passing year--seems that *something* is fscked up with our climate.)
Anyway, shutting up for real this time.
(And yeah, I'm a small bit Irish, through my maternal grandfather, but I'm much more German and Czech. No holidays for those, tho.)
Anyway, just felt like tacking on pointless observations about weather to my spamming posts of earlier today. Let's see...less than two weeks ago, we had a major snowstorm. Just over a week ago, it was really fscking cold, and there was snow and ice everywhere.
Then, in a matter of days, we go straight from 'January' to 'April'--and temps go up to the 70s, and it's sunny and balmy. Today, it's still in the upper 60s, I think, and we're supposed to have thunderstorms. From a blizzard to thunderstorms in under 14 days. Wowsers. (A person may or may not believe in global warming, or such things, but geez, the way things swing back and forth so wildly, the way things get more and more extreme heat/cold/severe storm-wise, and the way this becomes more pronounced with each passing year--seems that *something* is fscked up with our climate.)
Anyway, shutting up for real this time.
(And yeah, I'm a small bit Irish, through my maternal grandfather, but I'm much more German and Czech. No holidays for those, tho.)