Ted and I have been having Adventures! :) Yesterday we drove down to Kinsale, which is in fact very pretty. It reminds me a great deal of Homer, Alaska, except without the mountains. Still, it’s got that Cosmic Hamlet By The Sea feeling to it. We actually mostly only walked down along the shore, rather than exploring the town any, because by the time we got back from walking down the shore it was starting to rain and I was all tired out from the wind and chill. :) I…
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floating alien dandelion
Here’s the dandelion I was so pleased with. (The original photo is here, for comparison.)
I’m back!
Did you miss me? My uncle Packy is in Ireland for a couple weeks, so he and my parents came down Tuesday afternoon and hung out for the evening. Packy took off for Places Unknown on Wednesday morning, and Mom and Dad stayed to visit a little longer. Wednesday I trundled in to the fair trade shop, where work was considerably more entertaining than it was last week, mostly because two other volunteer/worker people were also there. One’s Irish and her paying job is web design and she thought she…
*beam*
*beam* My cathedral photo got top post on . I gotta say, that community makes me want to go out and take pictures every single day. Or possibly it makes me want to turn /kitsnaps into something more interactive. Comment spam made me really have to turn the comments off there, but maybe I should see if the software upgrade deals with that on any level (or if there’s another software package that’d work better)…
adventures in car buying
Buying a car is becoming a Saga. The Mitsubishi Colt we intended to buy turned out to have a 1.6 litre engine, which in this very strange country is considered high performance, and is taxed and insured accordingly. We did not wish to pay a third again as much in insurance as we were paying for the vehicle, so after discovering this exciting fact we went back to the dealership to look at a Very Tiny Daewoo (with a .8 litre hamster engine). The VTD was just in and not…