Well, this won’t be fun

If you go here, you’ll see a forecast for Wednesday that says this:
Winds gusting to 100/110 km/h. Widespread showers, heavy and prolonged at times.
For the math-lovers out there, that’s approximately 62-68 miles per hour. Now doesn’t that sound like a barrel full of monkeys?

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Oh, coffee

How I love thee, I cannot count the ways.Not having money for a long time is one thing, but not having coffee because one doesn’t have money is pure cruelty. Look it up, it’s right there in the UN statement on human rights. Or maybe it’s in the Geneva Conventions…you’re supposed to give [...]

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Cash. Sweet, sweet cash.

I think I willed it to happen, too. I kept singing “Today is the Day” all day in my head, and wouldn’t you know, when I was heading from the archives to the library I tried it out, and voila. I have cash. Good thing, too, since rent’s due at the end [...]

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Spoke too soon

Of course my ATM card still doesn’t work. I tried it out yesterday while I was in town, and no luck. So I came home again and called again, had my call dropped, brought my computer out to the living room for a better wireless signal, and then my computer died, but came [...]

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And….exhale….

This is NOT going to be one of those stories where the customer service rep on the phone says, “Everything looks like it’s working. Have you tried using your card at a different ATM?” I got that the other day, and didn’t mind it so much because I truly had no idea what [...]

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In honor of my favorite SO’B

On his thirty-(mmphmmph) birthday.

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Minor victories and minor defeats

So first, I was able to actually put my eyeballs on some heretofore unseen material in the National Archives. And that’s according to my memory, but it could be true, you never know. I have to send T on an errand to see if that actually is true, come to think of it. [...]

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Catching up

Kat and Adam left yesterday, and, I presume, got home safely last night, although I haven’t called yet to see if that panned out. Truth be told, I couldn’t stay up late enough last night to catch them post-airport-brouhaha. I dragged ass all day yesterday, but did it until 7. Would’ve [...]

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Liffey at night

I’d type something about this picture and the day we had, but it involved a lot of walking and I’m tired. Instead, I’ll make mention of the sometimes surprising abilities of this little camera. The sky was unbelievably pretty for that sliver of bright light on the horizon, under the clouds, but the [...]

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Sunday bells in Tallaght

I took this snippet of video as the 8:30 bells were ringing yesterday. This is St. Maelruain’s across the street. Turns out those batteries made specifically for electronic devices are way, way better than regular batteries. Sometimes I have to come to grips with the fact that I’m [...]

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