The plan that hatched on that Saturday morning - October 29 - was hatched thus: drive up north avoiding the motorway, to see a bit of rural Ireland, on the East coast. Then, as soon as night fell, speed up north towards Belfast. And we did. Saw a lot of hamlets, lovely rolling hills, the urban areas of Drogheda and Dundalk, and it became night pretty much as soon as we passed the border (which we hadn't even noticed, except for a sign in miles per hour)
Lots of jokes were made about us drivi
I made a rough draft of what to say in these entries. There's enough to fill at least seven of these posts. Welp.
ANYWAY
After landing in Dublin on a very windy Sunday afternoon, we were scooped up by a bus sent by the language school that would support us through the internship and the others met their host families at a parking lot in West Dublin. Yeah, the others, because M. and I would have to be driven to our host family, a nice old lady and her (daughter's) two cats in western Knoc
As many of you probably know, this April I was made redundant and so - after a bit - started looking for jobs (with less-than-stellar prospects) and applying for public jobs (with even-less-stellar prospects, but that hasn't stopped me from trying).
So one day I came across a job listing that wasn't a job listing but an internship programme. 90 places reserved to those who were unemployed for at least one month, resident in my province, and registered as jobseekers. You could try for one (an
So I was looking at an interesting recipe that had oven temperatures listed in Fahrenheit, so I typed "225F" in Google to take advantage of Google's quick converter.
I'm not even mad, magnificent love-childs (for the record, that'd be 107°C, or "just above boiling point" in cooking instructions)
(taken from the wikipedia page for the word in question)
Also, http://www.huffingto..._n_3389403.html
I've had enough of these hoping snakes on this hoping plane
The narration of Easter could have been made 1000x funnier if Jesus's resurrection had been scheduled for Good Friday at 3 o'clock
"Father into your hands I---- lol jk"
*Longinus stabs him*
"iddqd lol"
*legionary fires a volley of arrows*
"didn't we already reserve that for Saint Sebastian?"
*gets skull bashed in, skull reforms*
"Did somebody say chimichanga?"
My boss asked me to come along to get [other boss]'s car from the mechanic while the latter was busy in a meeting.
We get to the mechanic, get the car, then he gives me [other boss]'s keys and asks me to get back to the workplace; my face was then frozen in an utter "WHAT" face
Basically, my task was driving a friggin' Audi A8 for more or less 30 kilometres
Familiarise with the car's displays and button for 15 minutes, then start the engine, touch throttle with tip of foot, find self
Today the rankings to determine those who have obtained public housing have been published, and we're in the first 7 places (the ones eligible to obtain a house with reduced rent)
So we're going to move sometime before the end of the year (the rankings are subject to a 30-day grace period in case of mistakes, and then the municipality has 5 months to allot the apartments).
happy as shizzle you guise
(view from the west-north-west)