Enjoy that stew for the next few days, SV. I find that beef stew is always better the second day.

You reminded me that this past Friday our local Knights of Columbus club had a Half-way to St. Patrick's Day celebration, and for a ten dollar donation you got a shamrock wristband that entitled you to all the homemade Guinness beef stew and corned beef and cabbage you could eat while being entertained by an Irish band, and draining cold bottles of Guinness with the Bobby Sands Division of the Ancient Order of Hibernians.

I managed to stagger to my car just before 8 to watch Notre Dame at home.