Feb9

It’s been a hot minute, hasn’t it?

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<A meta-post, about posting, and so this isn’t dated. But it was posted on 08-Feb-2026, for those curious kittens>

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It’s been a while since I’ve posted something to this blog.

I’m not gone, and the blog isn’t forgotten. It’s simply a casualty of insanity – mine, mainly focused on a lack of time. I graduated Trinity, and thought I’d finally have a minute to get caught up with the blog… but, in trust, I fell face-first into the job hunt. Then, into frustration about said job hunt. Then working on a startup, then… well, I’m getting ahead of myself.

My apologies to you, dear reader, for this lapse. And, in truth, for the low quality of posts that are to come.

The photography should make up for that, but please bear with me in the shortness of the descriptions. I figure that it’s better to get these stories up, in whatever form I can, than to let the backlog become so monstrous that I end up giving up… or worse, trying to use ChatGPT to write the posts automatically, or some other crap.

Instead, I’ll do my best.

And that’s the best any of us can do.

Oct25

A drive out to a wind farm

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Friday, 31-January-2025


Kicking off the start of Term 2 of my MBA here at Trinity was Phase 1 of our strategic company project, a chance for us to collaborate with a major company in the Irish market, in order to stretch our strategic legs and apply some of the learnings that we’d gained from Term 1.

My company happened to run a windfarm nearby, and so invited us on-site to give our first major presentation of the program. We prepped quite extensively, drove out, and landed on-site with time to spare… we got a quick tour from our contacts, and got down to business (over coffee and sandwiches, of course!).

It went really well, I’m happy to report – Phase 1 was an industry analysis, reviewing the field that our company competes and operates within. As the phase purely focused on the industry, and not the company itself, it was mainly a research operation – no interviews, no on-site conversations, just a lot of work on google, and a ton of reviewing of financial documents.

It was good, and the views of the windmills spinning away was definitely appreciated after our time in the board room.

Oct23

Dublin is pretty in the Spring

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Spring, in Dublin. 2025


Dublin is pretty all year round. But for now, here’s a few views from spring, 2025.

In full candor – this MBA was kicking my butt. Term 2 kicked off pretty well, but quickly became a bit overwhelming… constant groupwork, near-infinite readings, and constantly conflicting schedules and overwhelming deliverables took their toll.

I wasn’t able to get out of town at all, in the spring, and my time in the gym dropped down to a quick workout once a week, at best. Now, I did get my daily bike rides to and from campus… but that can only keep energy going for so long. Climbing? Nope, the trip there and back was too much – I legitimately didn’t get a single day of climbing in between February and… well, July or August.

But!

I had my phone on me, and was able to carve out a few seconds here and there to appreciate the beauty of this city that I now live in. Europe is great, even when I’m overwhelmed and busy, and it helped to remember that by snapping a few quick shots as life flew by.



One neat set that I’ll keep separate from the others: These were a series of placards on a nearby building, telling stories from some of the residents. Very neat, and nice to include in a neighborhood quickly gentrifying.