The Tale of Our Oven
When we bought our house, it came with a Dacor range. (In appliance lingo, a “range” is an oven and a stove top, combined.) I was never particularly happy with it, not the least of which was because the oven …
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Filling the Cavity
You might recall that I got a cavity recently. Not a particularly proud moment, even if it’s been over 20 years since my last one. Still, something that needed to be fixed before anything else went awry. I was …
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Irish Family Trip, Day 12
Our flight was early, so we had an early morning. Well, early for some in this family. For me, it was normal. Packed and ready, downstairs, with cab called so we could get to the airport. The taxi arrived on time, we …
Irish Family Trip, Day 11
Last (full) day in Ireland. To zero surprise, I was up before everyone. I thought about where to go for breakfast – we’d had a few other ideas on our mind – when a thought crept across… Premier …
Irish Family Trip, Day 10
One of the problems with renting a car is returning it, especially before you get dinged for another day. The car was of no more use to us – everything from here is on foot. So I got up at 6:30, while my family …
Irish Family Trip, Day 9
Some yobbo felt the need to tear down the road with his car, popping exhaust, waking me up. Then a bunch of assholes waking up their friend — and the entire fucking hallway — at 3am. This should have been the sign for …
Irish Family Trip, Day 8
For once, we were up early. (Well, “early” for my family, anyway.) Alex had a geocaching event that she wanted to attend, because how often do you get to do something like that in another country? Besides, it …
Irish Family Trip, Day 7
Unsurprisingly, I was up before everyone else. We weren’t under the same time pressures as the day before, though we did have a dinner we had to attend in Newtownards. I made coffee. It was … reasonable. I …
Irish Family Trip, Day 6
And I thought yesterday was a drive. I woke up to people above us thumping around. The joys of a four-storey walk-up. Dragging everyone else out of bed, we headed up the road to Blas, a restaurant in the Gateway Lodge. …
Irish Family Trip, Day 5
Today was a drive. I think we covered most of the Irish West Coast. Which means you do nearly twice that, because there’s nary a straight road to be found in this country. Roads felt like they were wrapped like …