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I have a cassette player for the first time in well over a decade. This thrills me more than you can imagine. I still have a large number of cassettes, even after going through and purging my collection years ago. I had been thinking of picking up a portable CD/cassette player for a while,…
We’re back from Ireland, but I wanted to make a quick post about yesterday, which was my 46th birthday. I don’t know when the tradition started, but every year for my birthday I go and see movies in the movie theater. This has been going on for decades, as far back as my teen years….
Am I making this post out of some sort of sense of obligation? Maybe. I think the significance of this “event” in our vacation is such it does warrant special mention. So here it is. The blog post about Cave Hill. One of the things Laura wanted to do in Ireland was visit Cave Hill…
After a long day’s journey around the Inishowen Peninsula we were eager to pull into Buncrana and take it easy. We stayed at the Tullarven Mill, just a couple minutes away from the main streets of town. When looking for a place to stay, we had a short list of needs, and this place met…
In Ireland we’ve been staying with my dad who lives on the north coast in a small town called Ballycastle. From there we’ve been taking day trips out and about to various places. One of the biggest trips we took was an overnight trip to the Inishowen Peninsula in County Donegal. Travelling largely counterclockwise around the…
Some of what Laura and I had wanted to see was the old sites, those ancient ruins that were beyond the ancient monasteries or whatever. There’s plenty of prehistoric locations and artifacts in Ireland, and this day we traveled south a bit to see some. On the way we stopped at Coleraine to see Mount Sandel,…
Laura put Xavier down. Within a couple of minutes he is screaming. For mom. I go up to see if I can comfort him and get him to quiet down and go to sleep. As soon as I go in there, he’s quiet. He’s ignoring me. I crawl into the bed. He looks over at…
So much has happened on our trip, it’s hard to put it all down cohesively and in a timely manner. Such as it is when visiting family. Almost every day we’re off doing something, driving to one place or another, visiting some ancient ruin or some location with a significant historical importance. Part of this…
Of all the kids, Ciárán was the one who didn’t want to go. He’s rather contrary by nature and doesn’t necessarily like to step outside of his comfort zone. One of the other major reasons he didn’t want to go was his birthday would occur while away on vacation. He was afraid we wouldn’t be…
It’s over. It’s Monday morning as I write this. Ciárán’s head injury happened late Saturday afternoon. We had put an adhesive bandage on his head in the hopes that it would help to prevent the wound from opening up overnight. It appears to have worked. It was a small wound in the first place, thankfully….