Saint Patrick's Day

Last night was Saint Patrick's Day, and we had a pretty good deal on at my bar. We were selling pitchers of green beer for $5.50 each, from opening until closing, for anyone wearing green. For readers who are from other countries who wonder if that's a good deal, the answer is "yes" - that's slightly under the cost of buying the equivalent amount of bottled beer from our provincial government liquor store, and in comparison to minimum wage, that's the amount of money that people in the lowest wage-earning positions in this province can earn in about 50 minutes. Of course, that's still higher than prices in the United States, but in Canada, the government taxes us highly for our sins.

Anyway, let's just say that we poured off quite a number of kegs, and a good time was had by all. Here are a couple photos from the evening:





God bless the Irish.

This evening I'll be bartending again, although I bet that with the partying that everyone did last night, the club probably won't be as full as usual. After work, I'm heading up to Saint John to play a set at Club Nitro. Saint John, in my opinion, has the best underground music scene of any city in the Maritimes. Halifax has a bigger scene, but Saint John is just so friendly and open-minded that many people have grown to love partying in that city.