The Big Green House

Monday, March 17, 2003

 

Hello-
Please excuse bmarkey from work today. He is home sick, nursing a Guinness� er, a cold.
Signed,
My Ma

So I called in sick to work today. I must actually be sick then, since it usually takes something along the lines of decapitation to get me to miss a day. It�s more a matter of not wanting to screw my co-workers than a sense of duty, but I�m still contagious, and it sorta goes against the vein of healthcare work to infect others.

Instead, I stayed home and had the traditional Irish dinner of from-a-box jambalaya & Guinness. OK, I�m not really up to cooking properly and Science Girl is working over at Science Manor, so jambalaya for its spiciness and Guinness because it is good for you.

I am, more or less, one quarter Irish. Family records are a bit murky on that side; everybody who knew anything for sure went to their grave with that information. We Markeys have always been a tight-lipped lot. Still, from the small amount of digging I�ve done on the internet, it appears that the Markeys originally came about in County Monaghan or thereabouts. I met a bartender a few years ago who told me he knew a Markey in Dublin, so perhaps there are still a few of us kicking around the Auld Sod.

Science Girl, on the other had, can trace her family straight back to Erin, on her father�s side. Her uncle has been back to visit and found relative who run a B&B, no less. When we eventually do get married, I do hope we can go and pay them a visit on our honeymoon. Provided international travel is still possible, of course�




bmarkey 3/17/2003 07:37:00 PM