Change of plans. They really need me at THE MUSIC MAN rehearsal tomorrow...enough that I'm going to accommodate them. So, instead of cooking our St. Pat's corned beef feast through the day, I'm cooking the beef today. Now. The house smells of it as we speak. (Yum.) I'll refrigerate it overnight, and do the trimming and slicing tomorrow morning. I'll then cut up the potatoes, carrots, and the Oxford Comma cabbage, so those will be ready to cook. Then I'll go off and do the rehearsal and get back around 6 p.m., whereupon the veggies can cook and the corned beef be re-warmed.
Been listening and following BEAUTY AND THE BEEF BEAST all along, and I do believe I'd forgotten more about it than I knew. (hmmm...)
Anyway, FINALE will have to wait, I'm afraid. Boo hoo. I'm committing to a good long session with it on Friday.
And that's the end of my little story.