Showing posts with label St. Pattys Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label St. Pattys Day. Show all posts

Monday, March 22, 2010

My banter about myself again

St. Patty's Day weekend in Detroit is always fun, first it starts on Sunday for the St. Patty's Day Parade and absolute insanity in Corktown; and yes I do mean absolute insanity.  It was a fun time with some fun people and I took a few good photos.  The place was packed with people, maybe not so much along the parade route but definitely in the bars, at Nemo's you could not move unless of course you just pushed your way through and everyone else just started to follow you.

But here are some of the highlights of the parade:

2010 St. Patrick's Day Parade

2010 St. Patrick's Day Parade

2010 St. Patrick's Day Parade

2010 St. Patrick's Day Parade

2010 St. Patrick's Day Parade

2010 St. Patrick's Day Parade

2010 St. Patrick's Day Parade

2010 St. Patrick's Day Parade

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and the one I call "Help me Obi-wan Kenobi you're our only...holy hell what happened to you?"
2010 St. Patrick's Day Parade

After the parade I ended up at a friends bar and late night we decided to go venturing out and see the abandoned beauty of Detroit, first to an old mechanic shop and then up the 14 stories of Michigan Central Station.  That was an interesting trip I was told to do it without a flashlight at night, then to only use the flashlight when absolutely necessary.  This might explain why someone needed stitches but never got them.  I slipped on the roof over the grand hall and that explains the bruised knee in the morning and scraped elbow, it took a second to figure out where the blood on my jeans and coat came from but I was ok, so it was my friend's blood.

And then on Wed. St. Patrick's Day, had breakfast and then spent too much money at the Old Shillelagh in Detroit, then had lunch at the Detroit Beer Co.  Some friends went to take a nap and I headed back to Donovan's Pub for  a few more and to hang out with some interesting people.  I learned that Howard's nickname is Mandingo...I will end the story there.  Then up to meet up with some more friends for a night cap and TOTS!!!!

In other news I got published in the Metro Times for my photo "Before the North wall Fell." Here is a link to the article: Metro Times
and here's a link to the photo:
Before the north wall fell

Well that's all I'm going to say for now, I do have other stories but some just aren't meant to be told on here.

Friday, January 9, 2009

It's not a video

And yes I am posting at work, but technically I'm still at lunch so it doesn't count. But it's been a fun week, being told I am not doing my job, then that I don't know how to do my job, and my sis telling me I don't have a real job. But the woman complained printing took too long, and it was my fault, I did what I could and that was apologize for the delay but that was not good enough. Today I had to tell a patron that limewire is an illegal program to use at the library and if he did not stop we would ban him from using our WIFI, he didn't seem to understand that we cannot be responsible for distributing illegal music/video/software or whatever he was downloading, then he follows it up so where can I get music then? Seriously dude, I might know where but there is no way in hell I am the one who is going to tell you.

And then I had to go to Ikea, it was great the store was empty, and I needed to buy a bed frame. So since it was empty I decided to see what else was on sale, ehhh not much that I could use, big discounts on oddball items that no one wants. But I went to pick the damn frame I wanted, get the girl to help me, she tells me they have 4 in stock I was like cool, she tells me downstairs, I go down there and guess what they are no where to be found. I start walking up and down aisle 28 looking for the damn frame. I go to the help desk, he looks it up, and it is a full service item, which means that it's not with the other frames, but they actually have to get it from the back for you. Ok, he prints up my ticket, I go pay, and then pick it up. But bedding woman couldn't you have told me this? In the whole conversation of that's the one I want, and do you have it, you couldn't have said but it's not down there, and I have to print this up for you? Other than that it was ok, I guess.

On a completely different side note, Fox's game time crew sucks, they don't know how to talk about games. Will Oklahoma go for it on 3 and1, well yes, it's F*CKIN third down morons, they will go for it! And enough with the Tebow man loving every 13 seconds, yeah he's a down to earth do good guy, but don't keep telling me this. Oh and it doesn't matter to me how long it takes for Oklahoma between plays, as long as they snap the ball before the play clock expires then great if not 5 yard penalty, or as everyone knows these as basic rules.

And this is my last week off before schools starts up again, but if last semester was any indication, I'll have about 15 weeks off from real work. It should be better though, because I do not have a computer basics class that will drive me insane every week, instead I have more basic library function classes :-) So depending on how those go, I will have more frustrated rant posts coming up, and those are always fun! Bright spots of the coming semester include: Paczki Day (YAY Hamtramck Polish Drinking Day), and St. Patty's Day (During Spring Break, double bonus). And for those of you who remember last year; WE ARE TABLE #3, #3, #3, WE ARE TABLE #3, WHERE THE F*CK IS TABLE 4? Hopefully we have drunk wannabe leprechaun leading the chants again. And about that whole designated driver thing...1 2 3 NOT IT.

And to finally end this post I was looking stuff up when I found an awesome definition of a word that originated in West Philadelphia where I was born and raised, on the playground is where I spent most of my days, chillin' out maxin' relaxin' all cool and all shootin' some b-ball outside the school when a couple of guys who were up to no good, started making trouble in my neighborhood. Got in one little fight and my mom got scared, said you're moving with your Auntie and Uncle in Belair. And you have just been belaired.