is it insane what we spend on leisure activities these days?
When my grandparents were my age they were probably making choices of eating or being able to buy shoes, but nowadays the most difficult decision I have to make is where to travel to for the weekend or which pub to eat at…
Is this a good or bad thing to have lost touch with what might be considered the basics of life…once the basics are provided then we only need to think about entertainment!?!
I think I am the only person I know who thinks about such things…Is this part of my larger problem of not ever fitting in…I’m always thinking about the wrong things at the wrong moment…
ok back to the Lost little boy tour….
went to bed sometime after 2 and was out the door at 7:30 this morning…walked for a couple hours and then found a place for breakfast and a cider about 10:30…they were showing steeplechase (?)…at least I think that’s what it’s called…where the horses are whipped for about 20 minutes and have to jump obstacles along the way…
well one horse (i think) seemed to die during the race…he (? – not to be sexist, but what’s wrong with bein’ sexy?) fell coming off the jump and raised his head for a second then his head dropped to the ground and he stopped moving…the other horses were on a long straightaway so you could see the horse lying there for a long time…
yeah that pretty much marked the end of my breakfast…luckily I had already eaten most of it by that point, but I couldn’t go on anymore after that…
The Irish breakfast has black and white pudding…yeah…that’s like blood sausage right? took a bite of each just so I could say I tried it, but I’ll be perfectly content never eating either of those again…
so Sinead (the artist who works at 3 kings) described Portland OR as something like a dying industrial town…that’s actually kind of my impression of Dublin (the bit I’ve seen)…there’s not a lot of large or grand things…it’s very much a working class sort of town…I rather like it. It’s just a dreary simple place…the people are pleasant.
Went to a museum that was rather touching…I think I was close to tears reading about a picture of a place where Ireland lost a battle to england and how it was now and forever would be a subjugated country.
stupidly didn’t bring my camera cable, but saw two musicians playing in the street and they were great…probably homeless, but the singer literally had ONE TOOTH! yeah, he has credibility…when he was singing about rambling I believed him…
dude has ONE tooth