Whiskey in the Jar

Buenos Aires continues to shine in the culture department.  I mentioned some months ago the "Noche de los Museos."  Since then they have also had a "Noche de los Librerias."  And for the past few weeks there has been a major bookfair going on. 

I went last weekend on a Saturday night.  As I walked up the steps of the subway to reach street level, I was taken aback at the sheer number of people swamping the surrounding area.  I've been to large conventions before, and using them as a point of reference, I would guess there were at least 20,000 people at and around this bookfair. 

There was only one store at the fair that sold English books.  So I got a book called "Blink" - so far its excellent.

All in all, I must say BsAs (as they abbreviate it for some reason) does encourage reading and other worthwhile activities.  Well done!

Now, to the title of this post.  I went to a pub last night and they had some live Irish music.  Not only did they sing "Whiskey in the Jar" but a sister happened to be a guest singer.  She was great!

The whole experience brought back a lot of memories of Irish Drinking Songs.  For example:



Ah, what's not to love?

Memorial

We had the Memorial last tuesday in our shiny new hall on Tucuman.  Its a beautiful building as you can see by the pics in the gallery.  We had 81 in attendance, which is pretty good for a group of 35.  Although, I was hoping for 100.

Br Salinas did an excellent job on the talk, even though English is not his first language.  And Chacho gave a fantastic prayer... his first one in English, I think.

We also had the CO this past week.  What a humble brother!  He doesn't speak much English, but made such an effort to do so during the meetings and also during a study I brought him on.  He really appreciated being with us for the Memorial.

We also had lunch for him at my place.  I asked him if he liked parilla, and his answer was a resounding "Siiii!"  Then he said he had to go to take a nap.  I think we will get along just fine...

Random Quote

I heard quite possibly one of the greatest quotes about me today:

"You're more of a jerk than I am, but you get away with it."

I love it!  Its funny because its true!

Carlos' Quotable Quotes

Now that Carlos is here, I wanted to make a small list of his best quotes so far. Here goes:

"I hate colors!" - He denies this one
"Knowledge isn't power."
"Now I know I hate it!"
"Ewww!"
"You don't even care!"
"I hate quality!"  - This one was kind of a paraphrase

Notice how they are all negative!  But hes not having a terrible time here, thats just his way.

Carlos approves of this message.

Oh wait, that just prompted a new quote:

"I don't approve of anything!"

Carlos is Here!

Carlos arrived last week... and he brought video games!  Now we won't get anything done!