I’ve been too busy whoring all my free time in Warcrack over the past month to update the site, at least until my guilty conscience successfully nagged me into completing the theme change (to a modified SimplicityBright) and putting out some new posts, to my audience of three.

We…

…have moved house, to a much nicer home, in the same neighbourhood, but closer to Mariah’s family. A whole lot of unfortunate drama accompanied our move, involving several police calls, breaking and entry (legally and illegally) by both our former landlords and ourselves into our old house, property damage, threats. Interesting times. I’ll add a longer post later detailing this.

…have rehomed all three pitbull puppies, much to my sorrow as I really wanted to keep one.

…are now looking to rehouse Merry, my long-haired mongrel cat.

…are getting ready for both Mariah’s birthday at the end of the month and her trip to San Diego in November for her brother’s wedding.

I…

…have found a new job away from the clinic, working for a very well-known travel company in their Financial Operations department. It’s work that I enjoy and I hope to stay here for a long time to come. I will say that I did enjoy working at Ann Road Animal Hospital, in my time there. The staff are a great bunch of people, I enjoyed the solitude of my work and watching the dawn on my way home in the morning. I didn’t enjoy the snappy little bastard Chihuahuas who boarded at the clinic.

…have been playing a lot of WoW, as stated above. I have a 40-something Warlock on Arthas and a level 28 Shaman on Duskwood. I’m PVPing, grinding levels and enjoying a lot of the changes that Wrath of the Lich King has brought into the game.

Caira…

…is as awesome and crazy as always.

One fact about Ireland that I’m at pains to stress is that, within a few degrees of separation, everyone on our fair isle knows virtually everyone else, especially within given communities. Idon’t feel that it’s a stretchto saythat most of the gaming (roleplaying/war games/ccg) community knows almost everyone else, at least by sight. I vividly remember being in Dublin or London over the yearsand meetingby chances a person whom I met at Gaelcon or Gencon.

My mum cranks, as they say, all of this up a notch. We could (hypothetically…of course) drop her out of a helicopter into a pack of ravenous African lions and, lo andbehold, she realizes that why aren’tyou thatbeautiful lioness I saw all those years ago in Dublin zoo? And sure how are the cubs? Great, fantastic! Would I like to come in an havea cuppa?Absolutely! And then they’d talk until the giraffes came home.

Twice now in Las Vegas, a full seven thousand, eight hundred and thirteen kilometre from Galway as the crow flies, have I encountered people who know mum. One in McMullans Irish pub when mum was visiting here, she met some norn fellows who knew her and behold, they talked for half an hour like old friend. Yesterday, I met the O’Connell from Clifden in county Galway, who are touring the whole west coast by car. After a financial windfall through work they decided to take off to the United States for the summer. The two parents in the family both knew mum by sight as they often eat at her workplace when they’re in Galway.

’tis a small world.

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Whiny, clingy, green poop, sleepy. All the symptoms are there. :[