happy st. paddy's day.. hic!!

yes, to all you irish out there (including those of you who turn irish only for the day!), happy st. patrick's day y'all!! if this is nothing you have ever heard of, then click here! so the bars all opened at noon, and by the time i got off my workshift people were drifting around dazed.. it's the biggest drinking holiday in the US, bigger than New Year's too.. and beer makers lick their chops in anticipation of 17th March!!

our advisor baier put sank and me in the same lab!! hahaha!! so we cleaned up the basement lab and made out two comfortable workspaces!! now to see how much work really gets done!! besides, secret plans are afoot for a very fun event soon (there?), keep your eyes and ears wide open!! ;-)

so after two and half hours of 'hard' work, we decided to call it quits, and went home to plan how to celebrate st. paddy's day in style, yet as less damagingly to the pocket as possible! thought of making truck bombs, which are super-sized car bombs actually - half a shot glassful of Bailey's Irish Cream then topped off with Jameson Irish Whiskey, and the whole thing dunked in a 18 oz. (500ml.) glass half-filled with Guinness Beer, then chugged down as far as humanly possible!! so the truck bombs we had last time were insanely huge cos sank n' i were winter-hiking at a log cabin up north in the Adirondacks!! it was the most crazily, freezingly, tiringly, panoramically fun trip ever!! finally we came to the simplest solution, picked up a six pack each of Killian's and Guinness and went home!

jason called up to say he wanted to make glug, so naturally sank's and my curiosity was roused as it always is by any mention of meat or alcohol, and we went over. the recipe said it would make something in the region of a gallon!!

it turned out to be an excellent brew!! very rich, sweet and full-bodied, and a pleasant drink to sip, and not glug! swirl a mouthful around and imbibe the aromas of the spice which run through to your nose, and let your tongue taste the flavors. i think we did excellently on our first attempt, and a quick run through our distillator unit in the lab and we would be approaching something that we could bottle for a career! we could not taste the alcohol but it was there, like the lurking menace hovering over a perfectly sunny spring day..