Jul1

Thanksgiving in New England – Kicking it in NYC

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Thanksgiving! Last year, Thanksgiving was a bit too busy for me to fly back to the United States… classes, and general insanity, conspired to keep me in Dublin. Which, frankly, was a perfectly lovely time with friends and classmates. 2025, however, had none of those challenges… and thus, saw Andrea and I winging our way to New England for a well-deserved holiday…

Wednesday, 26-November-2025

Our second day in New York City was mainly aimed at seeing a matinee on Broadway… but until that started, we had a bit of free time to explore.

Thus – we explored!

Andrea had a few spots that she wanted to explore on her own, so my Mom and I headed out, forging into the city with the goal of… Well, with the goal of just forging into the city.

As such? We forged into the city!

Jun29

Thanksgiving in New England – NYC with the queen of clubs and bars

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Thanksgiving! Last year, Thanksgiving was a bit too busy for me to fly back to the United States… classes, and general insanity, conspired to keep me in Dublin. Which, frankly, was a perfectly lovely time with friends and classmates. 2025, however, had none of those challenges… and thus, saw Andrea and I winging our way to New England for a well-deserved holiday…

Tuesday, 25-November-2025

Andrea is kind of cool. I don’t know if I’ve mentioned that.

She really is – even in New York City, she’s an amazing tour guide, and the chance for me to follow in her wake and explore some of NYCs fancier bars was… well. I’ll let the photos speak for themselves.

We went to two spots: Super Bueno (one of the 50 best bars in the world), and Please Don’t Tell (an award-winning speakeasy), and frankly? Both were super cool. Super Bueno was a little less exciting, of the two, but Please Don’t Tell (PDT, for the cool kids) was super – mysterious vibe, fun drinks, and a reasonably quiet atmosphere that let us relax and chat.


Ohh, and the subway attacked us for being unemployed. I took that personally, so the drinks were extra appreciated.

Jun27

Thanksgiving in New England – Maybe Happy Ending (a play on Broadway!)

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Thanksgiving! Last year, Thanksgiving was a bit too busy for me to fly back to the United States… classes, and general insanity, conspired to keep me in Dublin. Which, frankly, was a perfectly lovely time with friends and classmates. 2025, however, had none of those challenges… and thus, saw Andrea and I winging our way to New England for a well-deserved holiday…

Tuesday, 25-November-2025


I can say, without any major doubt, that this was the best play I’ve ever seen.

Is that surprising? No, not really. I mean, it’s on Broadway. It won basically all the awards. It shouldn’t have been a surprise.

But it still was, somehow.

I adore theater – I appreciate the physical aspect of it, and I enjoy the time and effort and simple raw humanity that it requires. And for Maybe Happy Ending, I adored all of it. Two standouts:
– The set design. Just absolutely amazing, kinetic, and really cool. It hit a beautiful mix between complicated and simple, and it simply just worked.
– The theme. I love a plot that’s enjoyable on its own, but that also includes some kind of meta-commentary. The main characters are androids, and it considers what happens when a helper-AI is no longer needed. An obviously important question, as generative AI becomes more widespread… But it also alludes to what happens when our pets get surrendered to a shelter, or what happens to our aging parents when they can no longer live alone.

It was really great.