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I am an adventurer. The thrill of adventure and exploration keeps me strong; through rock climbing, backpacking, cycling, exploring, and trying new things, I love the rush of adventure.
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.

Jun25

Thanksgiving in New England – Dinner in New York City

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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-2026

One of the big things Andrea had asked that we make sure to do while visiting New England was to make our way slightly out of bounds, and out to New York City. Specifically with the goal of seeing a few shows on Broadway that she’d been hearing good things about. Now, I won’t say no to a bit of adventure, and the chance to catch up with family friends, and see the sights of NYC, wasn’t something I’d be at all sad to add into the adventure itinerary.

First major stop? Cafe Un Deux Trois!

Sadly, they’ve closed down now after 47 years… so I’m extra thankful for the memories!

Jun23

Thanksgiving in New England – A flight around New England

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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…

Monday, 24-November-2025

We just flew from Ireland to the United States… so why would we be getting on another plane so quickly?

I mean, why not, first off.

Second off – we had to fly to Portland! Maine, not Oregon, unfortunately.

But there was nothing unfortunate about this – Andrea and I got to meet up with Daniel, hop in a small single-engine prop plane, and toodle around the East Coast for a bit of an adventure. A chance for Daniel and I to catch up, a chance for Andrea to see the sights, and a chance for all three of us to have some delicious grilled cheese up in Maine… while also earning Daniel a few extra flight hours in the process.

Ohh, and also causing a multi-plane search for an emergency transponder.

Yeah… We’re still not sure how that switch got bumped… Honestly, it was a funny whole thing: throughout the flight up, we kept hearing radio chatter about an emergency transponder that was going off nearby. Planes and ATC were searching for it, people (passively, thankfully) working to triangulate where it was. It was challenging, almost as if it was moving… But no matter – we flew, we landed, and we went into town.

Then Daniel got a call. The beacon seemed to be coming from our plane. Could they enter and turn it off?

… Shit.

Thankfully all went well – no issues or hassle, as far as I’m aware. Just a funny story to add to an otherwise absolutely lovely day.

… Ohh and Daniel and I wore butterfly wings after dinner. We were glorious.