Today I seem to be Oirish

It's cold, and it's not snowing. This is annoying, because over in London, it's snowing like a good thing. I'm jealous.

However, I have a new Dungeon, and some ideas, and an update project that's more a simple redesign to be getting on with, so things could be worse. And I'm really enjoying the copy of Understanding Earth that I got so as to brush up on basic geology.

For your further entertainment, a conversation overheard yesterday in the DART station. All of this is delivered in good Irish country accents, except where noted:

Blonde Girl: ... fucking tourists.
Dark-haired Guy: Tourists in January?
Blonde Girl: Yeah. Masses of them. Cos some wanker chalked in "Corned Beef and Cabbage" on the menu.
Dark-haired Guy: Shit *starting to laugh*
Blonde Girl: So we had them coming in all day going *imitates American drawl* We're lookin' for some real irish food, can y'all fix us some cabbage and corned beef?
Dark-haired guy: *now laughing*
Blonde Girl: And by the fifth or so, I was like, look, we don't serve it, why do you think we serve it, it's not Irish, it's about as fuckin' Irish as Independence Day!

And further, I'm told by a Ballina native that a perfume ad in a chemsist's window there was objected to in a big way by the Mayor - it was apparently a rather tasteful nude. His words were along the lines of: "Take it down, it's offensive to women. It's Christmas, and they've enough to be getting on with with the shopping and cooking and cleaning." And he took the ad home.

Still not snowing.

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I wonder if there's any setting in Eudora or the like that allows you to edit incoming mail headers. Cos there's one person at present whose handle (not address, just the name on the From: line) is mis-spelt, deliberately or otherwise, and it's driving me spare. At the same time, it's not important enough to bring up with them. If I could just quietly correct it...

The hunting of houses

Hunting for a new place to live, to be moved into ideally at the end of February.

We found a place today, except that we'd have to take it way sooner than the end of February.

Cons:
Windows are single glazed.
It's not very big, and there probably wouldn't be room for all our furniture.
I'm not quite sure where we'd put the computers.

Pros:
It's beautiful.
There are working open fireplaces in five out of seven rooms.
There's a really nice garden.
The rent works out lower for everyone, by quite a bit.
There are wooden floors, and the stairs has painted patterns on the risers.
The resident furniture is rustic-y, knobbed and carved.
Bay windows.

You can see which way my mind is going on this one...