Hare Rama
Two wonderful things, both connected, happened today. First - we confirmed "Govinda's" in Middle Abbey St is a Hare Krishna restaurant and second- I bought dinner for us there, and shouted myself a Carpe Diem Kombucha carbonated herbal tea drink. This drink combined several of my favourite beverage qualities: it's Asian-inspired (or so the label says), it's it healthful (or so the label says), it's carbonated (I can confirm that), and it's exotic/strange. It was delicious. It had just the right amount of sweetness (5.3g / 100g).
This was the first real meal that we've bought in Dublin. We are on Lidl rations until we are earning €s. For example, for lunch today I enjoyed a microwave tortilla which had discharged 60% of its filling onto the microwave plate while it was cooking. As a final indignity, what little filling remained had the salinity of sea water.
Our apartment really is in an amazingly central location. Today we went to the Garda immigration building, a bank, the IRD-equivalent, and the social security building. They are all within 5 or 10 minutes walk. Unfortunately, every visit was unsuccessful for one reason or another so we still can't legally work, open a bank account, and Laura better not leave the country or she might never get back in. (Also, what it lacks in blue-skyness and warnmess, the city centre makes up for in complete flatness.)
A couple of bites on the job hunting front for me today thanks to extremely tradeable commodity known as .NET developer. A quick and unscientific survey revealed about twice as many job adverts for .NET as J2EE.
This was the first real meal that we've bought in Dublin. We are on Lidl rations until we are earning €s. For example, for lunch today I enjoyed a microwave tortilla which had discharged 60% of its filling onto the microwave plate while it was cooking. As a final indignity, what little filling remained had the salinity of sea water.
Our apartment really is in an amazingly central location. Today we went to the Garda immigration building, a bank, the IRD-equivalent, and the social security building. They are all within 5 or 10 minutes walk. Unfortunately, every visit was unsuccessful for one reason or another so we still can't legally work, open a bank account, and Laura better not leave the country or she might never get back in. (Also, what it lacks in blue-skyness and warnmess, the city centre makes up for in complete flatness.)
A couple of bites on the job hunting front for me today thanks to extremely tradeable commodity known as .NET developer. A quick and unscientific survey revealed about twice as many job adverts for .NET as J2EE.
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