Back in Britain: Part II

I’m back in Eng­land… again, after a visit to Eire. The same three of us that went to europe went to my friend’s par­ents’ house near Gal­way, and had a very relax­ing time play­ing pool, fish­ing and drink­ing a vari­ety of beers. One of the high­lights (aside from Shane’s brother’s fant­astic cook­ing) had to be fish­ing for crabs, using the high tech equip­ment of a saus­age in a sock. One of the low­lights was not stand­ing on the top of a mediocre hill inside a cloud, try­ing to con­vince ourselves that this kerry way malarky was worth­while. It was a nice walk, but a shame about the typ­ical and inev­it­able irish weather!

So I got back on the 27^th and I was 18 on the 28^th. We had a fam­ily gath­er­ing at our house, which was really fun, it’s great to see all of my fam­ily in one place, that doesn’t hap­pen very often. I also got a new laptop, a mac­book, from which I’m writ­ing this now. I’ve been hanker­ing after an apple machine for a while, and after about 3 days I’m totally con­ver­ted — everything just works: I turn it on and am using the wire­less inter­net con­nec­tion within three minutes; I plug in my cam­era and everything is impor­ted without me hav­ing to even push a but­ton. It’s also incred­ibly fast, and seems to be lightyears ahead of Win­dows in the design of the inter­face. And it’s pretty. I don’t think I’ll ever use win­dows again!

To add to all this great news, I finally found a job. Admit­tedly, it is mak­ing cof­fee at the NEC, but it pays well. The only down­side is that the shifts are 7am til 7pm, and I had to sign a waiver void­ing my rights to breaks and the like. So, I’ll be loaded, and too knackered to spend any­thing. Sounds good to me!

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