That's three times today that I meant to type the word 'unit' and I actually typed 'until' or some such varient with an 'l' ...so strange. Yes, brain is fried...it's Friday, it's really warm, I'm tired, it's been a long week and I can't wait to have a 3 day weekend... Unfortunately for me, they're driving 1000 tonnes of equipment from a closed sugar beet factory in Carlow down to Mallow, at 4km/h, over the next few days. That means the Dublin to Cork road is going to have major detours, some of which will probably be onto my route home, via Athy or Carlow, and Kilkenny. It's too warm a day to spend 3½ hours on a bus home, let alone 5 because of tail-backs...
The parental units are driving us back to Dublin, hopefully, on Monday, so at least there'll only be one bad bus journey home.
And I learned this today - there is a prophecy, widely dismissed by scholars as a hoax, and attributed to St. Malachy, an Irish archbishop recognized by members of the Church for his ability to read the future, that says that Benedict fits the description of the second-to-last pope before the Last Judgement, when the bible says God separates the wicked from the righteous at the end of time. According to Yahoo News, "St. Malachy was said to have had a vision during a trip to Rome around 1139 of the remaining 112 Popes. The new pope would be number 111 on that list, and is described in a text attributed to St. Malachy as the "Glory of the Olive."
To connect Benedict, a pale, bookish German, to anything olive takes some imagination. But Malachy-watchers point to the choice of the name Benedict -- an allusion to the Order of Saint Benedict, a branch of which is known as the Olivetans." Very interesting!
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