It Could Only Happen To Me...

I set up this blog as an easy way to keep in touch with y'all, and give you a little peek inside of my time here in Ireland (for those of you who don't know, I am here until the end of August). I set it up before I left, but was committed not to post anything until I arrived in Dublin... something about authenticity.

A few weeks later I found myself all settled into an apartment just a few blocks away from the River Liffey. I went to make my first shiny entry into this space, feeling very proud of myself for having thought of such a great idea. I typed in my username and password... no access. I tried a different password... no access. After about 20 minutes of fruitlessly typing in every password I could think of that I have ever used, I was forced to concede defeat and walked away with my tail between my legs. I clicked on the password retrieval button and waited for my password to be emailed to me.

It never came. Well, maybe it did... but not to any of the email accounts I am currently using. Since it had been so long since I'd last logged in here, I'd forgotten all the important little details... like my password and which email address I'd associated with my Blogger account. So my routine for the past few days has been to sit and type for at least 15 minutes a day, trying to log into my account. Today I finally got in. Hooray!

With that confession now out of the way, I can now move on to the task at hand. Ireland has been very interesting so far. Mostly I have just been getting oriented (learning the nearby streets, working out which keys open what doors... that sort of thing).

If you pop by here more than once, you are sure to see such things as my poor photography and my fondness for Wikipedia, and my desperate affection for embedded hyperlinks (please don't think you have to follow all of them -- they just make me feel technologically smug. Try to overlook the fact that they are pretty much the extent of my abilities).

I will update you later on some of the things I've been up too, such as watching the wildly popular Spongebob Squarepants dubbed over for broadcast on the Irish language station ("Eachtraí le Spongebob agus a chairde").