Michaelmas; it's a thing

First off I want Gerard Kennedy to know I'm not gay (not that there's anything wrong with that).

It's been a crazy week and a half since I last posted and that is because of...MICHAELMAS! That's right, it was that annual multiday bender that is celebrating my birthday. This year, I sadly missed out on the much anticipated "strip club pub crawl" but without the Cotton Club reopen yet it would have probably just have made everyone sad.

Other than that I've just been kept busy with work and trying to get over the flu. It's surprisingly hard to do, especially when I'm not actually taking any meds. I keep coughing and feeling all shitty, but it comes and goes and the crazy weather is helping me get through.

What is up with that, btw? It's the 9th of January and it's like 11 degrees? In Newfoundland? I don't know what the deal with that is, but all I have to say is that up until that point where everyone drowns and we wind up in a bad Kevin Costner movie I don't mind this global warming thing (yes, I understand that with the exception of the ones with baseball and Robin Hood "bad" is redundant in that sentence). But come on, let's be serious. It's not going to happen overnight, we'll see the tide rise up and just move inland. Everyone will be fine.

Oh yeah, back to Michaelmas. See, me and a few friends started it up a few years ago. It's based on the concept that since my bday is so close to the holidays everyone is constantly doing something else and it's impossible to get everyone together at once. That in mind we staggered several nights of drinking over the span of the week starting with Michaelmas Eve (January 3) right on up to the Saturday of Michaelmas. It's generally funtimes and this year was no exception.

But I did discover something quite odd. There actually is a Michaelmas. It's the feast of St Michael and it happens in September. This puts me in an odd place. Do we change the name of my Michaelmas, or do we just ignore the other one? Either way, I now have a full year to figure something out.

One last thing. I've decided to rig Google. You've done a vanity search. Don't lie, you know you have. And last time I did one the Soapbox was #9 for "Mike Hickey" and #13 for "Michael Hickey" but I don't think thats good enough. With your help I think we can make it #1. Or at least #2. Which I don't mind, #2 is solid. Hehe, yeah I did.

Apparently Google runs on some kind of link thing or something? I don't know but for sure, but if someone could let me know it would be super. In the meantime, link this shit up from everything you can. In return, I'll post more often. I think it's a fair deal. Let's get on that.