A year of Dungeons & Dragons

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Monday, 06-Oct-2025

A year ago, I met a new group of friends in my apartment building.

We met over nerdiness – pens and paper, rulebooks and a dry-erasable laminated map, figurines and dice. They appreciated the weird voices that I did for various characters, and liked the stories that I was making up. In turn, I enjoyed their energy, their creativity, and the characters they put together to play.

They picked an assortment of figurines to represent those characters, and ever since I’ve known those figurines to be that character, and that character alone.

The end of September marked the 1 year anniversary of our D&D game, and the 6th of October was our first session into the new year – marked with cake, excitement, and the amazing camaraderie that we’ve built throughout. I seriously can’t thank these amazing people enough for the fun and enjoyment I’ve gained from knowing them.

Here’s to another year!

Views from a spaceship

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Various times around 2025, 2024 too maybe?


To be clear, these aren’t ACTUAL views from an ACTUAL spaceship. Nor are they technically photographs, since they’re very definitely screenshots.

But one of the ways I’ve been finding calm and relaxation in this manic world of post-MBA Dublin is in my old game, Elite: Dangerous. Flying the spaceships I’ve optimized, running through the game loops I’ve locked down and understood, it’s nice. Calming. A sense of control in a world that offers me less and less control.

And you’ve got to admit – the views are pretty, whether they’re real or not.