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St. Patrick's Day.

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This past Saturday was another successful St. Patrick’s Day (past St. Pat’s: 2005, 2006, 2007 & 2008).  Like last year we headed to Ginger’s Ale House where Dan was able to secure our table at 9:30am. Except for the occasional pub crawl the bar wasn’t nearly as packed as was last year.  We managed to last about 10 hours at Ginger’s before the crowd broke up and some of us found our way to Finley Dunnes.  As in years past there was a black eye and a fish fry on Sunday.

Various parts of the day that were of interest:

  1. Gary Busey making an appearance.
  2. Ted ‘Million Dollar Man’ Dibiase making an appearance.
  3. A raging makeout session at the bar in the middle of the day.
  4. The time when Jeff insulted the honor of some woman (contrary to popular believe Chivalry is clearly not dead).
  5. The entire afternoon when some douchbag decided to play depressing Irish folk songs for several hours and Nick Barbone kept attacking the jukebox in response.

A good time was had by all.

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Below is the last photograph of James & Josh, the time stamp reads 8:59pm… there’s no telling what really happened after that point in the night.

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*The rest of the photographs can be found on Flickr.

The Penguins come to Chicago.

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Last night Julie and I went to the Penguins – Blackhawks game at the United Center.  The Pens managed to give up two separate two goal leads but Malkin put it away 5-4 in OT.  There were a ton of goals down by our side of the ice which was great.  A good mix of Pens fans in attendance as well.

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The Blackhawks have been doing promo giveaways before a bunch of games all season long.  Last night’s was a Hawks hardhat.  When Jonathan Toews of the Blackhawks scored his first career hat trick the promo hardhats made their way onto the ice.  After an instant replay review the goal was called off but Toews managed to score another goal a couple minutes later and the hardhats poured down again.

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The Pens went into OT on the power play and Malkin scored the game winner about a minute into the extra period.

Great game.

* The rest of my photographs are on Flickr.