I stayed up late (or rather early) to watch the last U.S. presidential debate, so I’m a little groggy this morning. I force myself to get up knowing that my SuperValu grocery delivery window is 10:30-12:30. I have coffee and browse headlines on my iPad, my typical start-of-day routine. Around 12:10 the driver calls to say he’s running late. It’s a bright, crisp day with...

Somehow I got a day behind with the blog, so I’m going to try and catch up by covering two days in one post… Wednesday The Level 5 COVID restrictions go into effect tonight at midnight. The Ireland government has asked people to stay home, with a 5 km (3 mile) radius restriction for exercise, etc. Thankfully, the 5 km radius from my apartment covers almost all of central Dublin...

I slept in a little longer than usual this morning, after staying up watching some TV. Last night, there was a noisy group of young people on Crow Street directly below my living room windows. The Foggy Dew pub actually runs through the ground floor of my building and has a back door that opens up to Crow Street… perhaps it opened in protest? The noise finally died down around midnight. I...