Home and that was a long rainy ride through the backroads of SC between Camden and Rock Thrill. When I got onto 77 heading to Charlotte I saw 3 distinct large rainbows.

Albannach on stage at the Camden Irish Festival!!

I was a haggis carnivore at the Camden Irish Festival!!

The Camden Irish Festival just got 2 Huey helicopters do a low fly by!! Totally bad ass!

Albannach just had a pair of 8 month pregnant woman do a dance off...this is Camden Irish Festival! Cheeky bastards!!

Albannach's first performance ever at the Camden Irish Festival! I'm a fan they are a great band to see perform!! I probably won't catch them again or I go to Greenville gor their Scottish Festival!

First Guinness @ Camden Irish Fest! I love when I can break out this beer sleeve from Carolina Renn also fun to catch up with Renn friends. #NowDrinking Guinness @ Camden Irish Festival! untp.beer/wY69z

Caught my favorite celtic band Syr as I came into the Camden Irish Festival!!

I am officially pleased to have found that the Camden Irish Fesr is pouring Kilkenny this year! I love this brew and it is damn hard to find! #NowDrinking Kilkenny from Guinness @ the Camden Irish Festival!! untp.beer/aWaxO

Back again to the Camden Irish Fest!! It only took me 2 years and damn happy to be back!!

Southbound and down!

#NowWatching Guinness Six Nations at Grace O'Malley's! Ireland vs Wales 12 x 10! #NowDrinking Smitty's literally my favorite Red Ale at Grace O'Malley's! untp.beer/YzarL

Can't be to surprised by this, catching the Guinness Six Nations game 'tween Ireland and Wales at Grace O'Malley's! Not caught a Six Nations in a Irish Pub this season and damn good time today. #NowWatching Guinness Six Nations! untp.beer/NK8a3

First cup of happiness this morning and even though I have the day off I have to lead a meeting at work. It's an important meeting and it will set the stage for us for next month of work. I make a pretty damn good pot of coffee and I enjoy brewing it for us.

Kicked off this Finally F'n Friday with a 7am CrossFit partner workout to close out the week in the gym. Pretty happy how this week went, had some wins and some workouts that got really real that I had to dig deep to get through

This Guinness tastes like a 3 day weekend and that tastes great! #NowDrinking Guinness Draught untp.beer/V2GV4

Got my eye on the clock, make it to 6pm and I have a 3 day weekend!

I got to admit that I love walking out of the gym and feeling like I left everything on the gym floor and owned that workout. 10 Rounds 200m Run 2 Wall Walks I'm not a particularly fast runner I am able to keep a consistent pace. 6am CrossFit was fun this morning.

Stopped by to fill the Soul and rolled by Frugal to find a new to me Jameson. Jameson Triple Triple is a blended Irish whiskey matured in bourbon, sherry casks. Triple-distilled blend of pot still and grain whiskeys. I'm looking forward to trying this Irish Whiskey.

Found out today that my gym is tracking our scores to #CrossFit Open 26.01 and I tied with an ex-Olympian and coach for first place in Males Scaled division also first in the Masters + division. I am very surprised and pretty proud of that.

Between CrossFit Open Workout 26.1 and this morning's workout of Thrusters + Strict Pull-ups + Burpees I feel like I am just walking wounded. Any perceived swagger to my walk is just me sorely stumbling about.

Kicking off this new month of Manic Mondays. 7am CrossFit and settling into the work place from the home office today. With one of our key team members out for the next 2 weeks doing what I can to fill what they expertly do to make sure that we continue in their abscene.

Geez today is a perfect feckin day. I can say this from the past few days when the Casa De Wyrd has been a bit temperamental.

How to really know that you are a part of a Irish community in the south. Your Irish Dancers dance Irish to Cotton Eye Joe....

First Guinness of the Charlotte Irish Connection party! I had no idea that Matthews Social House was Irish and proudly Irish not just for the month of St Patrick's. Slainte!! #NowDrinking Guinness! untp.beer/0nxXg

Pre-gaming the Charlotte Irish Connection party to greet the Grand Marshall of the Charlotte St Patrick's Day parade from Ireland. Of course had to stop at Grace O'Malley's! #NowDrinking Smithwicks Red Ale untp.beer/GKDen

Take aways from watching SNL from last night. I am definitely getting the new Mumford and Sons album.

Happy Meteorological Spring!

There is nothing better than gifted beer especially from a favorite bar that gave to us their last 6 of Gordgeous! #NowDrinking Gordgeous from NoDa Brewing. untp.beer/48GOz

Dropped by Heroes Aren't Hard to Find Mini Con at Blume Studios and that continues to be a great mini con and loving their new location! The best part is seeing friends that has been too long since we had the chance to con together.

#CrossFit Open 26.1 done did and if I say do myself it was done did damn well!! I got w total score 210 that puts me getting through in 12 minutes 20 Wall Balls 18 Box Jump Overs 30 Wall Balls 18 Box Jump Overs 40 Wall Balls 18 Medicine Ball Box Step Overs 66 Wall Balls

Getting ready for the #CrossFit Open 26.1 workout at CFSC! Repping my gym and their decades club for those of us who have been actively working out there for more than a decade. Not really nervous of how I'll do, I am there to find out and I have 12 minutes to do it.

London Calling by The Clash @ Shadowplay www.shazam.com/track/442028...

Shadowplay @ Crown Station in NoDa

Finally F'n Friday!! Charlotte is looking like it's a great place to be this weekend!

7am CrossFit and this was my playground! 5 Rounds 20 Burpees to Target 16 Knees to Elbows I appreciate I had one other show up to workout with me! I can count on one hand the times I had to workout alone these past 14 years in this gym.

I get that tomorrow is the kick off of the CrossFit Open so a lot of people take it easy the day before but they usually show up. If you give a CrossFitter a workout they will do it even if they scale.

What a trip, this morning rolling into the gym I noticed that there was only one car in the parking lot where it's usually packed at 7am. Walked in and only one person had shown up for 6am CrossFit!

#Scrubs soundtrack still is a fantastic listen and always found a song in the episode I loved like this one. #NowListening Amsterdam by Gregory Alan Isakov #ScrubsIsBack! www.shazam.com/track/902354...

#NowWatching #Scrubs I caught up with the new series and new Scrubs is as good as old Scrubs! #ScrubsIsBack www.imdb.com/title/tt0285...

#GoodWords "I think it is important to remind yourself that this is not a race Do what you can today. You will get where you are going. Process happens in layers."

I am forecast a 100% likelihood of wet today in Charlotte, all over. That was a rainy ride into Uptown this morning.

This is a monumental song to me and my state of being. The Book of Love by Peter Gabriel www.shazam.com/track/513676...

#NowWatching Scrubs My Finale Part 2 before we watch the return of Scrubs. www.imdb.com/title/tt1385...

My hands are rough this morning from 6am CrossFit workout - 5 Rounds 400m run 1 Rope Climb Going to need to self care to get ready and recover for tomorrow's workout.

It is always a good morning to enjoy free coffee with a Monk on the way to the workplace on a chilly morning in Uptown. #UptownCharlotteLife

Me walking by the Mint Museum and a Monk sneezes. Me: Bless you... The Monk glances to me... Me: Obviously We both laugh

Today so far has been a very, very, very manic Monday.

Doing our patriotic duty for National Margarita Day by eating at a small, local, immigrant-owned Mexican restaurant. BTW I had dos margaritas de fresa congeladas!! Thank you Don Pedros!! #margaritas #madewithimmigranthands #supportlocal ##NationalMargaritaDay

That was a hell of a game!! Now both Women's and Men's Olympic Hockey teams take Gold!