CategoryFriends

The shower is fixed! End of my friend’s visit, now back to work

It doesn’t look like my post from Saturday, Playing Tourist, Broken Shower, was emailed out to the blog’s subscribers, so click on the link if you missed it. Yesterday (Monday), my friend Julius and I didn’t have any set plans for the last full day of his visit. We hadn’t managed to fix my electric power shower the previous day, so our first priority was to give it another...

Playing tourist, broken shower

The last few days, I’ve enjoyed playing tourist with my friend Julius who has been visiting me in Dublin. On Saturday, we had breakfast with my friend CJ then in the afternoon we toured the Guinness Storehouse for several hours. Today (Sunday), the start of our day was thrown off due to broken shower… the electric shower pump unit suddenly lost pressure when I was just finishing up my...

A longtime friend comes to visit

My longtime and close friend Julius is paying me a visit. We have known each other since we were 10 years old growing up in Midland, Texas and were classmates from fifth grade all the way through high school graduation. Although we have kept in touch consistently over the decades, our friendship entered a new phase when he relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area five years ago. He ended up moving...