We are staying in a hotel this weekend and on the way back to the room after breakfast someone said I looked nice and asked if I were on the way to church. I had thrown on dark jeans and a blue Brooks Brothers button down shirt to get breakfast. Quality and fit for the win this morning.

Tim was partially right. Although my choir director buddy Allen Bean from Good Shepard Episcopal Church and I went to O’ Tooles and sat frequently at the booth with the McGuire family crest on our weekly sojourn to the pub in Richmond, VA after choir practice- it wasn’t until about 2004 when I joined the band with Timmy that I fully embraced my heritage. Tim would have loved the bells and smells mass today as we celebrated his life. One of our two girl singers in our band was the Cantor and not only did we do St. Patrick’s Breastplate as the processional, but she did a solo Celtic blessing in Gaelic and another in Latin. Provincially the article I sent to the paper weeks ago was printed today as was the re opening of our favorite pub ( the two owners -one in a fireman’s kilt - and my favorite bartender are in the pics shown). I couldn’t have ever anticipated a better celebration of my very best friends life! A long tearful celebratory day. OOTD Black linen blazer Orvis Waxed Cotton blackwatch waste coat White silk pocket square Black silk tie Grey flannel trousers Black Byford OTC socks J Fitzpatrick captoes 1949’s Bulova Watch. https://www.claremoreprogress.com/news/farewell-to-the-worlds-largest-leprechaun/article_42394c03-33fa-4848-832e-cedcf1a56f86.html

Tomorrow is the funeral mass for my best buddy Tim. Today is a funeral for the mother in law of Tim and my favorite Irish pub owner. I made a promise to finish the three things Tim left me alone to accomplish when he passed away One: save the pub Two write our book Three do our final (of about 6) album with nothing but originals we wrote. For about sixty hours over the past few weeks I’ve been helping the owners of the pub to re structure their business. I think we made some major headway yesterday on the pub. Book and album to go. OOTD MTM grey suit Oct 1985 White shirt White silk PS Navy and deep plumb rep tie circa 1982 Black J Fitzpatrick captoes Black Byford otc merino wool socks 1940’s Bulova watch

I stepped out last evening for a wedding .. It was a black affair thing..