Well Happy St. Patrick’s Day to youse guys….

Marx and I did attend the parade but we were slightly late getting started this morning so we did NOT get a good spot and our pictures basically suck. Sorry guys.

Maybe we were stuck behind you? :-)

Anyway, if you want to see the few we ended up taking, you can check them out on flickr.

Okay I would go to all the trouble to put up a big old list of all the St. Patrick’s Day stuff going on for Butte’s Biggest Holiday…..

But the Montana Standard went though all the trouble already. Just looking at that list makes me tired.

We will definitely be at the parade. Otherwise, I’m not even sure which events we will hit…. What events are you going to make sure to attend?

Being on Saturday will give the whole day a different flavor. Can’t wait!

Congratulations to the Butte High Bulldogs on an amazing season and a 2nd place finish at the State Class AA State Tourney this weekend. We’re proud of yaz!

Months and months ago I noticed the county attorney standing at the corner of Dewey & Lexington (at the edge of the parking lot of UBC) for a few hours one afternoon.

Then recently there has been a lot of construction-y activity on the northwest corner of that intersection, for no real apparent reason. (Sidenote: they had a “sidewalk closed” sign up for a while one day, which was the funniest damn thing I’ve ever seen, being as there is, in fact, no sidewalk there… That gave me a hearty chuckle.)

Anyway, this morning I noticed that there was a truck at that corner with Rocky Mountain Traffic Control or something like that. So I guess that explains that. I wonder if they’re going full-on stoplight, or if it’s going to be some sort of half-assed solution. Either way, it’s gotta be an improvement over what’s going on there now….

Remember when it wasn’t even a 4-way stop? Those were the days….

I searched the Standard’s archives for any information on the activity at that intersection but didn’t find anything. I haven’t really been keeping up with my paper reading lately so it could have been a front page story and I may have missed it. If you have any info, let me know….

Okay, so I haven’t been posting much. Neither has anyone else, but as I discovered today, they probably couldn’t even if they’d tried.

When I upgraded WordPress after the server move it changed all of our users to “Subscribers” including Marx and myself. That meant we could all log in until we were blue in the face but the dashboard had none of the abilities to write a post.

So when any of our fine posters logged in they probably thought we’d taken away their privileges. We didn’t… I just apparently don’t pay attention at ALL.

The only account that could write anything was the joint admin account that Marx and I both use–and I usually log in using that and then just set my posts to reflect that I was the author. We use the same computer and just have it always logged in as the admin, so that’s why it took so long for me to notice.

So, sorry guys. It’s been fixed and I hope we’re back up to speed.