More From Ireland

I am sorry if I am not commenting on your blogs, since I pay the minute for the internet here I have to greatly focus my time here.

For the last two days we have gone on two tours of Galway. The first was to a section of sheep country called Conmarrah and the second to the Cliffs of Moreh. Both tour guides were quite exceptional and we enjoyed listening to them. It has rained a lot so we've purchased two umbrellas and a slicker. Despite the rain, there has also been a great deal of sunshine, particularly when we saw the cliffs. Don't worry, we took lots of pictures and I'll be posting them here soon.

The food is really good. It involves lots of carrots, potatos and occasionally Pasta. I'm certainly not complaining here! Though things are a bit expensive. At 1.7 Euros to the Dollar, the prices for most things in Euros is the same as it is in the states, but with the conversion rate its almost twice as expensive. I end up paying for almost everything with the credit card because it has the best exchange rate.

One of the coolest places we've visited was the jeweler that we got Jennifer's wedding/engagement ring from. They had a small museum and we got a sterling silver harp necklace for her, which she likes a great deal. We're hoping to catch some dancing tonight. All for now.

Another day in Ireland

After my last entry we had dinner at a nice restaurant called Busker Brown's. It seemed a bit like the irish equivalent of TGI Fridays. Still, the food was good. I had Irish Beef Lasagna and Jennifer had Obrejin and Butter Nut Squash. At any rate, then we came home and watched TV (Batman III to be exact. Woohoo welcome to Ireland :) ). Jennifer did shop whilst I adjusted to Jet Lag (for some reason she was able to sleep on the plane...and the train...and for a bit in the hotel.) There were no rooms in the initial hotel so we stayed in a party bed and breakfast. They had a live band which was interesting. I had a small sip of Guiness...which, sadly, tasted utterly vile. Jennifer liked it. Then again, she already did. The keyboard is sticking so I'm going to make this fairly short. We had breakfast and its raining right now so we wanted to take a bit of a break. Oh, one other cool thing, we stopped off at Thomas's jewlrey. Besides having a cool name, they are the place that made/makes the wedding ring "Cladaugh" that we got for our wedding.

Ireland

Rule #1 to being happy using the internet in Ireland...the @ key is not shift+2. That cost me 4-5 minutes of frustration at my password not working. We're in a cafe so I'll keep this somewhat short and to the point.

Ireland rocks! Sleep rocks harder! I stayed awake all night because Jennifer had to sleep and I was paranoid of what would happen to her if the plane crashed in the water and she'd drown. Sure it is stupid, but the first thing you learn in Dungeons and Dragons is "ALWAYS KEEP A WATCH!"

Hey the flip side is that it will help me cope with Jet lag that much quicker. We got in at 7am and took the train straight to Galway. Ireland is very pretty and rural country. However, they don't often tell you how...islandish it is. It really is about 1/2 the size of the State of Georgia. It took three hours by train to get from one side to the other...ok, more like the whole state of georgia plus a nobbly bit on top that is Northern Ireland. (We are not going to Northern Ireland.)

We ate cool Irish food at a restaurant called Tara's.

We will check into the hotel soon. More to come.

Welcome to the internet

We're in the airport, so we can update you on our vacation as we go. Our flight leaves shortly. To anyone making comments on my most live journal entry (you might not like it so I don't recommend going there if you're sensitive on certain topics) I can't access that site from here so I can't unscreen the comments. Might be able to do so from Ireland.


We left yesterday at around 7pm and spent five hours on the road. Got up in the morning and finished the trip. We're flying out of Washington D.C. The security stuff was suprisingly smooth (guess they try to be more efficient here than in Atlanta or something). Regardless, we're in the terminal waiting to go. More details to follow (either from Ireland or after.)

Preparation For Debarkation

Today is the day that we go to the land of Leprechauns. We're going to drive to D.C. and fly from there tomorrow night. We'll get in Ireland at around 7AM and get back in the states at 3pm on Sunday the following week. Whilst Jennifer has performed extensive planning thus far, we have no reservations and no major expectations (though our generic plan is to head to Gallway (where we got her engagement ring from) and then meander back to Dublin for the Beltain celebration on May 1 (which also happens to be her birthday.)

Fun But Busy Weekend

Well we spent most of Saturday cleaning up the house like mad. It came down to the final stretch but we have three rooms unpacked and quite clean. We were able to get the food cooked and all the preparations made for our "How to Host a Murder Mystery" called "Murder Under the Bigtop." We were all circus performers and had to guess who had conducted the murder. My character was Sven Garlic and I had a ventriliquist dummy (a sock) and I talked in a fake Swedish accent. As you might imagine...I had fun. :) Jennifer was "Buster Gut the Strongman" and, though she enjoyed it, did not have quite the insane character as Sven. :) Next time we'll find something else that she'll like more. :)

On Friday we saw "Forbidden Kingdom". It rocked! :) The Jet Li vs Jackie Chan fight scene alone was worth it. Also ran into some of our friends at random which was nice.

Sunday we saw Okief at the museum. Except it wasn't a comprehensive look at her career, rather her works and six other female's works from this guy called Siglitz who basically helped make her career. Still, seeing their influence on Okeif's stuff was interesting.

Sunday night we had a reading for my epic poem and it went over quite well. I'll keep you posted as to future developments there. Jennifer spent a good chunk of the night working on a political video for youtube but we had to give up at 2am because our editing software doesn't work. :/

We have a table!

Thanks to Galb. we now have a table! It's pretty cool and it formerly belonged to his mother. Jennifer was very anxious to put it together when we go the last pieces. We're holding a Murder Mystery party this Saturday with some friends. Work is going well, though Jennifer will be quite busy this week with work and both of us will be getting things ready.

Update

Well, I think a longer update as to how we are doing is long over due. As I mentioned, we have moved. And we’re both in school. We moved because Golddame55 will have to go entirely free of meds whilst we’re trying to have children, but she’d like to work during at least part of that, which meant shortening her commute as much as possible. It also has the side fringe benefit of making a 90 minute commute 45 minutes for me at this point.

We’re slowly unpacking. We have a lot of work to do, but right now we’re focusing on the kitchen, dining room and living room, because we have a triple date planned on the 19^th involving a Murder Mystery (http://www.host-party.com) I’ll let you know how that goes.

Sadsog is currently donating her considerable editing skills towards helping with my film project for last year called, “Dueling Morons.” A friend of mine is putting together a website for Red Anvil Productions, and helped me find a friend of his who is doing the web design pretty cheap. She’s amazing. I’ll include the link when its finished.

Gaming is going well. Last night I played Civilization with Greg and one of his friends. We’re beating the computer to a ridiculous degree, but I don’t feel bad, because the computer usually mops the floor quite hard with us. I’m also on a game called Eve Online, which is quite fun. My character, Talasak, has been around about a year and is finally starting to hold his own, somewhat. I’m also involved in a few role playing game campaigns, including “World of Creeg” which is a mishmash of 300 and the Odyssey. My character in that is a Warlock by the name of Vex. The other two are, “The Birth of Magic” where a bunch of peasants suddenly have magical super powers and “RoleMaster” where my character is an assassin for the good of the state (ala “Remo Williams”.) Describing my character for “The Birth of Magic” would be beyond the scope or reading level of this blog. J

At any rate, hope all goes well. More will come. I hope to update at least once a week.

The blog is unlocked!

It is unlocked finally. I will slowly begin to try to include interesting or relevant details. :) We're still unpacking.

More details to follow.