I’ve had Adventures in Cooking tonight. I wanted a bowl of soup for dinner, but was thwarted by being unable to figure out how to turn the stove on. I was further thwarted from my secondary plan of going down to one of the corner cafes and having soup there by sheer laziness. So after a while I was whining online and my friend Geni, who is English, told me how to turn the stove on. (There’s a completely unmarked button that has to be pushed after you turn the…
Author: mizkit
many small things
I trundled down to the coffee shop this morning and got about 1650 words written, which is a nice start. I’m hoping to do some more tonight, which seems likely, since I’m the only one home; Mom and Dad have gone out to Blackrock to babysit. I also completely failed to understand the nice young woman behind the counter, who asked me something unintelligible three times, and eventually said, “Just water?” which I hastily agreed to. On the way up the stairs to sit down and have my water and…
another busy day
Another busy day! I don’t seem to be in any particular hurry to get up these days, so I got up around 8:20, but we weren’t in any hurry to get out of Dublin, either, so it was all okay. We toddled off to Newbridge in the early afternoon, and I liked it a lot. The commute’s not at all bad, 20 minutes on the quickest train and 35 on the slowest, with the light rail bringing you from Heuston station to Connelly, which is downtown, in another 15 or…
a day in bray
We spent the better part of the day going out to Bray to have a look around. It’s very pretty indeed, but I think the commute might be a little long to do on a daily basis. I’m not quite sure why I think this, because my commute from San Francisco to Mountain View was as long on the express train, and longer on the regular train, but then, it was only about 3 minutes walk from the train station to my work, and I was driven to and from…
Neil Gaiman
Well, since I’m in Dublin and, as Rob pointed out, there’s no point in having an adventure if you’re not going to do adventuresome things, I called up to see if there were any tickets left for the Neil Gaiman interview next Tuesday. There weren’t, of course, but I got myself put on a waitlist just in case, and if space comes open I’ll go listen to Neil’s interview, not so much because I’m a particular fan of his writing so much as I like him as a person quite…