2024-01-29                         from the editor of ~insom
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   Day 10ish of my time in Ireland.

   Pretty sure I'm going to breeze by my previous "most days
   spent in Ireland" record (set in December 2023). I've
   cancelled my flight home. It feels like I am cosplaying as
   an Irish person. It's different this time: staying in
   Blanchardstown and not Dalkey. This is near enough to where
   I used to live: it's near the shopping centre that I once
   worked at and shopped at. It's near where Mum lived before I
   left Dublin (and most of the time that I was gone). It's a
   place I have sort-of in common with my wife, who lived
   nearby with me, but who isn't here with me.

   My brother and sister have temporarily left, so I'm on my
   own. My family is 5 timezones behind me, so it's like
   there's a "dark side of the moon" part of the day when I
   want to talk to folks but it's an unreasonably late (or
   early) time and so I feel a bit extra alone.