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the great derrynane power outage

I've been eating a lot. Normally I just have a mug of mocha for breakfast. But on this tour, breakfast is provided at the hotel, while lunch and dinner are "on your own." Knowing Mom and Dad, I expected we'd be eating gas station hot dogs for lunch and convenience store sandwiches for dinner. So I'v...

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Achaius (Lvl. 46) - July 25, 2025

gallivanting (moonshine and chowder)

We spent the night in an old world mansion that has been converted to a hotel. Before breakfast, I wanted to take a walk but couldn't find the exit. Or rather, I found two exits marked by green exit signs, but they were both locked. Finally through trial and error I found a completely unmarked door ...

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Achaius (Lvl. 46) - July 23, 2025

carriganass, bantry, garinish

Jet lag lets me experience life as a morning person, sort of. I crashed at 10:30 pm, woke at 6, and had two hours before breakfast at 8:15. Kinda bizarre. I did my morning wake-up walk, packed completely, drew a picture of the dresser and desk, even had time for a walk outside... But breakfast time ...

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Achaius (Lvl. 46) - July 22, 2025

castling

It's castle day! After a resounding Irish breakfast (featuring smoked salmon on soda bread, really good sausages, and black pudding (I had to try it. it's surprisingly okay)), we joined up with our tour group. It's a small group: the three of us plus a family of four (mom, grandma, two kids) and th...

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Achaius (Lvl. 46) - July 21, 2025

dublin day

A couple days ago, on a whim, I started playing Return of the Obra Dinn. Dante was like "I've been meaning to try that out forever" and suddenly he and newbie were playing it too. It's me, the trendsetter. I tuned into newbie's stream for a hot second and immediately exited because he was way ahead ...

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Achaius (Lvl. 46) - July 20, 2025

to the emerald isle

"Enjoy potatoes," said HGR. "Enjoy generic castle #72." From what I understand, he's pretty much off the potato diet, but he said he had baked potatoes this morning in solidarity. We're off to summer vacation in Ireland! Feels wild it's vacation time already. Both June and July have passed in a blur...

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Achaius (Lvl. 46) - July 19, 2025

traffic hazards

Today’s first world pet peeve: Drivers who don’t use their turn signals. Like 80% of the drivers approaching the t-junction by the train station don’t signal. Then I don’t know if they’re going to turn left (I have to stop for them) or right (I can continue across the street without losing walking u...

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Achaius (Lvl. 46) - July 16, 2025

a crystal-clear river

How charming!! On our last pull of last weekend, we legitimately cleared the add phase and reached the river. “Proof of concept,” said numbers. “The concept is being skilled.” This weekend we took the concept even further. We made it past adds twice on Saturday, and on Sunday we even made it to the...

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Achaius (Lvl. 46) - July 14, 2025

elmo (retrospective on the learning project)

Today I learned Elmo is canonically three and a half years old. Kinda weird. It’s not out of character, but I just always thought of him as an ageless figure. A few years back, I had a project to write down one new thing I learned every day. I kept it up for a couple months, then forgot about it. Wh...

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Achaius (Lvl. 46) - July 12, 2025

horse girls & horse girls

Now that cirri have passed the 45-day window, my opinion on them has stabilized. I’m still not a fan of horses. I am a fan of how well they scry. The skin scene is middling; lots of high-quality art, but not much that says “buy me now,” since they don’t have the wing space for the kind of scenic ski...

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Achaius (Lvl. 46) - July 10, 2025

guns blazing

It’s funny seeing everyone’s reactions to base management elements in a game. HGR was like “base management?!?!” (disgust, disdain, dismay). newbie was like “base management??” (eyes shining) and shortly thereafter purchased and started playing MGS5. MGS5 is the hit game of the summer. HGR kicked th...

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Achaius (Lvl. 46) - July 7, 2025

varying degrees of panic

Seems like it’s becoming a tradition to dream about my office day in metaphorical form. Last night it was jumbled travel dreams. I was going on a family trip and needed to take the bus to the airport; but I was running too late to catch the bus; I would have to take an uber instead. But then my fami...

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Achaius (Lvl. 46) - July 2, 2025

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