Apr16

A spot of home improvement

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Saturday, 23-August-2025


The weekend previous, Andrea had moved in!

Her lease was ending, we’d been dating for 10 months, and we’d had all the requisite conversations – we’d scenario planned, talked details, gamed out thoughts, and talked generalities. We did all the things, had all the prep time, and we felt good.

One of things things that came out of the conversations, unsurprisingly, was that this was originally my apartment – and thus, some reorganization needed to happen. Some improvements made.

The chance for this engineer to show off, and this designer (Andrea, not me) to optimize a bit of layout.

Additionally, a chance for Ben to buy rods, and saws, and extra tools!!!


We had fun, if the pictures don’t make that obvious.

Apr12

Ben’s wee day out

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Wednesday, 13-August-2025



It was a hot August day, and I was going to get some adventure in whether the Universe wanted me to or not.

The plan had originally been to hike Ben Bulben – rent a car, traipse out to the West Coast of Ireland, and leverage the long summer days to get me all the sunlight that I’d need to summit, then return home.

Unfortunately, that plan got waylaid – My car rental app thing required a re-registration, and had cancelled itself on me. I submitted it, of course, but it’d be a 7-day+ waiting period to get it approved… and in the mean time, no cars for Ben.

Instead, I packed a lunch, some water and some coffee, and hopped on the bike to explore Phoenix Park. It wasn’t ideal, to be sure, since I couldn’t listen to music while cycling, and I couldn’t watch the Midlands flash by as I made my way to the West, but… you know what?

Sometimes, we iterate.

Sometimes, we do the best we can, regardless of what happens.

And sometimes, we get to photograph semi-domesticated deer populations in a massive in-city walled park.