St. Patrick's Day

Last night was pretty quiet. I managed to do some more writing so that was pretty good.

Today was pretty quiet. It was another pretty dull and quiet day at work.

Of course, it's St. Patrick's Day today. I remember being at the bar in an airport on St. Patrick's Day and someone went up and ordered a green beer. The woman behind the bar didn't have a clue what he was on about and the guy said he meant beer which had been dyed green. The woman offered him some beer in a green bottle, but said that they didn't have any green beer. The guy refused and said that if it wasn't green dyed beer he wasn't interested and wandered away. I have never had green beer. I would have thought a Guinness would have been more authentically Irish.

It's Friday tomorrow so I'll be trying to get up and out early in the morning so I can leave work early.

Hammer House of Horror

Last night I was watching Hammer House of Horror on TV. This week's episode was called "The House That Bled to Death". It was about a family that move into a normal looking suburban house, where a murder was committed several years previously. Of course, it's not long before the family are plagued by strange and gruesome happenings, culminating in a memorable set-piece where they are hosting a children's party, and while all the kids are eating, a pipe bursts and sprays blood all over the table. That sequence was nominated as one of the 100 Greatest Scary Moments in a TV poll a few years ago. The episode itself is basically like The Amityville Horror compressed to about an hour. After that I watched a couple of episodes of Tales of the Unexpected, in which a nervous businessman (played by one-time Doctor Who Peter Davidson) who waits for a visit from a call girl in a hotel gets involved in an amusing case of mistaken identity. In the second episode a verger is fired from his job because he can't read or write and sets up a successful chain of tea-shops.

Today has been fairly quiet at work, but I managed to get away quite sharply, so that was good. The weather also seems to be starting to brighten up a bit now.

Of course, today is Saint Patrick's Day, one of the guys working at my desk at work is Irish and he announced on Friday that he was going to be off work today. When he was asked why he replied: "It's St. Paddy's Day. It's my national duty to get drunk."