Sometimes, there are thoughts so tiny, they are easy to lose in the vast space known as the brain. This is why Post-it Notes were invented, so one could jot small stuff down and stick them to one's forehead instead. This morning, I decided to clear off three of the notes weighing down my brow.

1. I've never really pictured Saint Patrick's Day as a winter holiday. Yet, on my Peanuts wall calendar, it shows the day of green happening three days before the season of white comes to a close (or ten days before the day of pastels, depending on which holidays or colors you observe). St. Patty's Day just strikes me as a springtime celebration. Leprechauns and four-leaf clovers just seem more closely related to chocolate bunnies and flowers in bloom than to snow and a jolly man dressed in red.

By the way, today's holiday links are courtesy of the History Channel, my latest channel of choice when I have a choice of channels. In days of old, when presented with the luxury of cable television, I'd watch MTV tirelessly, hoping to catch a glimpse of a music video or two. Now, in my old age, I prefer to spend my cable time watching shows like Digging for the Truth (more entertaining than educational) or Battlefield Detectives (the Battle of Cowpens episode was engaging).

2. Here is a note with a quote from a February episode of The O.C.:

Summer: Cohen, are you okay?
Seth: Oh, yeah, I'm fine. I'm just having an allergic reaction. To the whole universe.

3. Last Thursday morning, I began reading The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett, a Scottish author who wrote a series of historical novels set in sixteenth-century Scotland. Later in the day, I received an email from my friend in Seattle, who I visited some time ago. We hadn't corresponded in a while, so it was a pleasant surprise to hear from him. Pleasant surprise became strange coincidence when he wrote, "You won't believe this, but I'm in Scotland."