This and That
After 5 wonderful days in Italy I’m back in Dublin and as Henry Kelly might have said, I’m playing catch up.
• Irish KC was hacked yesterday. It was reinstated fairly quickly but apologies if you saw something scary instead of my usual scowling face. Still checking that nothing harmful has been left behind.
• The seemingly dormant American Hell is definitely returning today, no matter what else I do. I did some AH drawings when I was in Italy.
• Right now I have an itchy leg. It’s making me nostalgic. Because it’s from a mosquito in Italy. Not as bad as what the first mosquito bite of the season has meant for the previous 9 summers. But then this isn’t the 1st bite of this year. I was bitten a week ago by a mosquito in Ireland.
• Apologies for the disruption in service of shipping paintings that the trip to Italy caused. I should make big inroads today.
• Many KC Irish events and news items haven’t made it out of draft in the last few weeks. It’s too late for some now, but I’ll work on the others.
• There’s a fair few photos of Genoa posted, but I’ll probably post a few more and then insert some brief notes on each one today.
• Tea consumption declined over the last week. That makes me grumpy so I’ll be addressing the self-imposed tea-deprivation that holidays always bring, and hogging the kettle today for you to have the more familiar cheery me back with you.
• As I feared, the 2nd half of the Cycling Across America journal is riddled with holes because the taped sections, although transcribed, are not accessible. I’ll persevere though with brief outlines from memory, of the days that are holes, to bring readers up to date. Next scheduled instalment is today.
• It’s another warm sunny day in Dublin, something like the 14th out of the last 16 days, regular life almost. This is getting very silly at this stage but it might mean I drop all things web and go and play football with the dog.
• If things ever seem unusually slow or quiet around these Irish KC parts, a quick glance at Twitter should either give you updates or some clues as to what’s going on.
• Yes I brought my laptop to Italy and checked Skype every day. No, no calls were received. The Nobody’s Child posts will sadly continue.
Eolaí gan Fhéile:
Mosquitoes used to chew on me every summer in Minnesota too. My husband would get little nuisance bites but I got great big screamingly itchy fried-egg-sized lumps on any bit of flesh exposed. It was miserable on hot nights sometimes - the itch and the heat would see me sitting in tepid bathsfull of water in the middle of the night.
Sorry about your hacking - that sucks. How do you go about sorting something like that out?
Sam it does suck. Even if you did leave the door open. You go about sorting it out with a chunk of time, a good deal of patience, and a lot of help.
And then you lock the stable door.