I usually update this journal when something amazing happens but when you live in the most amazing place in the wolrd, you don't even know where to start or how long you'd be writing. I now understand why starfleet headquarters was imagined to be here, this is the cutting edge of human civilisation. This is as close to a perfect etopia as we've ever achieved. If Berkely campus was just empty buildings with no meaning other than being beautiful archatechture in a magical forest setting, it'd already be the most wonderful sight I've ever seen. But when you realise that these buildings house the future of technology and science, when you hear the roar of engines from the "Space Science Complex" echo for miles, you realise the beauty is what's behind the doors in and in the minds of people who work here.

As I know from star trek, every eutopian planet has it's darker side but they're doing a bloody good job of hiding it from me. It's so weird having strangers walk up to you and ask if you need a hand carrying a keyboard home or people just going out of their way to be nice to you. I'm living in a city but my front door is open like it's rural Ireland. People don't have plastic bag taxes, they just recycle because they want to. They have hydrogen at petrol stations. They have the UN human rights charter on a huge marble monument in the center of the city. They have free public wi-fi. Public transport is cheap, plentiful and reliable. The coffee is bloody tasty (hmmm sips coffee). You can find most things for free on craigslist as craigslist started here. Google lives here. The weather is perfect. Deer walk along the footpath at night and red squirells run around you during the day. I've gone a whole month without meeting a single assole.We don't have to pull power boats up out of the water as the US navy kindly left us two huge cranes to do all the heavy work. I get paid for such hard work as building a huge life sized sand castle fortress with a load of kids and having them jump inside out of the way of my supersoaker. The kids are supposed to be "at risk youth", I guess those are the kind that only bring you moderate ammounts of flowers and pizza and thankyou cards...wait..at risk of what? Being too nice for normal society? These are the BAD kids?

I've so many things to write about, so many pictures, videos and stories but there's just too much to keep up with. I miss people back home but lets be clear, that's all I miss. I intend on abducting you all and bringing you here. Get your bags ready. Ireland is SO BeforeIKnewAboutThisPlace.

The first model I ever made was the HMS Titanic. The first trophy I ever won was for public speaking, talking about the Titanic. I liked it so much that one night I fell asleep beside my model ship and rolled over it, breaking it into two pieces in a strikingly similar way to that which the actual Titanic tore itself apart in 1918. Since then, every time I climb aboard or hop into something, there's a good chance it will later be involved in a horrible accident.

Here's my trail of destruction so far:

• The two boats in Kilmore Quay that sunk in a storm.
• Kevin's Branigan's trawler that sunk off skerries.
• That ship that crashed into my dad's boat and then mysteriously capsized and sunk in flat calm weather.
• The Lady Laura that sunk in Malahide.
• Paul Hicks E-Boat that was T-boned in Clontarf.
• The Debonair which collided with a cargo vessel in 04', one survivor.
• The Asgard 2 which sunk off France on September 11th, the cause of which is still unknown.
• A Greek 737 jet airliner which flew into the side of a mountain, 121 dead, no survivors.
• The Pere Charles that was sailing in Kilmore Quay beside another boat when it suddenly disappeared underwater with no survivors.
• That Cessna 206 I'd jumped out of which crashed in the parachute club this morning, thankfully no one killed this time.
• My Mam's car but that's probably stretching it :)

Okay the intro was unrelated and irrelevant but the X-Files has shown us that you've got to have some spooky childhood object of demonic power or else it's just a boring string of coincidences. Spooooky demonic model....ooooooo.......

From Drop Box

Navan drivers....

Once upon a few days ago, Patsy (my mam, I can't use mam on the Internet or someone might know her) was driving to her sisters when someone on the opposite side of the road decided it'd be fun to overtake three cars at once. Patsy braked almost to a halt while the other woman decided it'd be much safer not to break and speed up instead. A head on ensued, airbags where deployed, ambulances were called and traffic jams were ah..spread? Thanks to a bit of luck and some great Toyota engineering, she wasn't badly injured and was out after three hours with some bruising and a glazed look of "holy shit" on her face.

On going back to salvage stuff from the car later that day, Shamie and I were surprised to have to break and pull into the side of the road while another navan driver decided to (this had to be in list format.)

Overtake three cars while
on a continous white line while
going round a bend while
doing 120kph while
in heavy traffic while
in a 50kph roadworks area while
being flashed and beeped by at least five cars while
making me uncharacteristically angry.

Anyways, this having being Patsy's first crash in so many years, by faulty logic I'll have to update this when she's 93 and has another one by which time robots will be driving cars so this sorta stuff won't happen.

Captain, if you just let me reverse the polarity of your phaser coil,
I can have you looking absolutely fabulous!


This REAL RAY GUN (hairdryer) actually does fire high intensity
electromagnetic radiation in the infa-red spectrum (gives off heat).
The electron ring (electric coil)  really lights up and glows red.
The weapon will kill anything within ten picometers. (if your touching
the electirc coil, congratz, you're connected to the mains and are
now an unwanted but yet very special part of our national energy grid)

"Pay It Forward: I will send a handmade gift to the first 3 people who leave a comment here on my LJ in the next 365 days"

Will be safe. Will be fun. May change your life.

The only thing you have to do in return is "pay it forward" by making a similar agreement on your blog."+
(edit: Nah screw this bit, I'm happy enough to just make stuff.)

This is a fun game considering I barely have three people who might read this so I pretty much already know who I'm making stuff for already.

When the kid who looks freakishly like Daniel Radcliffe turns out to be a Daniel. Relief.... :)

One of these things is not like the other, one of thing is not quite the same...



I was gona put my own picture up with all these pretentious concert people but I thought that might narrow their list of suspects down to eh.... me. It's also funny how many people walked by this and didn't notice anything. It's still there on the T101 staircase in DCU and probably will be for many long times.

MARDOK!

I can't remember a the word for having a better word for something. Is there a word for this?

HELP NEEDED:
I've lost a word from my vocabulary. If you see a neural pathway wandering down the street that answers to the name "x", and you know what "x" stands for, please contact me immediately. It's been missing for five days now and I'm loosing sleep over it. From what i remember, it was a pretty wide word, about 3-4 syllables or so and possibly started with "a", although I may be wrong. It's not articulate, apt or eloquent but may be similar to those words in meaning. My word may be found in a sentence like: "Good is too basic, i need something more "x"  ". Or it may just mean to have a wide range of vocabulary. Or the ability to use a more eloquent word. I'm very sketchy about it's precise meaning.

WARNING!: In view of my recent failure to track down this word, I've resigned to the possibility that I may have created a phantom word that never existed. A word that is only a gap where I feel a word should be! I'm going mad!  What if everyone started looking for a word that never existed? Total Madness. It may haunt so many people that it's added to the dictionary as a blank space that eats other words. Ever see the Never Ending Story with the nothingness with an appetite for somethingness? Oh shi-

My spontaneous curse word for this week:

                                                              
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I've just been kicked out of Science Education physics labs for for teaching physics.
I had a huge confrontation with some bitch of a lab tutor who's obviously got a huge problem with me doing her job (while shes ignoring students and chatting about the weekend to her friend). I'd finished the 3 hour lab in 20mins because I've done some physics but then normally I stay on and help people understand the concepts, I never give any answers or anything. She's just pissed because I corrected one of her mistakes. I only come to the labs to help people. She started following me around standing in front of me telling me to leave, and then tells me I'm getting aggressive because I confronted her front of everyone. I just asked her why if I'm studying to be a physics teacher am I'm not allowed to explain a simple concept to some one who's asked me a question?

I am not getting aggressive.....

Sam and I had a wonderful five hours making this. Benny found it highly offensive.

I´m stuck in an Airport in malaga and may I say Ryan Air are bastards.  They closed the check in desk right in front of us while we were in the queue. I seriously hope we get home before our money runs out, it won´t be today anyways. To be continued.....  hopefully.

Saying : "the whole body.... whole body" on a meditation tape is equivalent to rhyming "baby" with "crazy" in an RnB song seven times over. It's been been done more times than the burnt crumbs down the bottom of your toaster.

Meditation stoner lady voice:  "..and now relax your left eyebrow"

Danny: " Oh thanks, I feel much better now. All that stress pent up in one eybrow"     *headdesk*          Whata loada shite.

Last night I dreamed I was in love with this girl. I mean crazily in love. I was singing to her while making her a sculpture out of glass (test tubes actually...  :0?  ). I've never felt so happy and nervous all at once. I was genuinely insanely in love with her, my life was absolutely complete.
 Woke up, couldn't even remember who it was.

Stopping your car to let a Mammy duck and a row of little baby ducks cross the road actually happens in real life. Wow!

Lessons from this weekend:

Never leave for Donegal at 1am with a random polish guy you've never met before.

Never assume country folk have a sense of humor. Seeing a pub is 100% male and then putting on Gay Bar 5 times in a row is only funny to me.

Never react to that "You're a deadman" look by puting on YMCA instead.

Coldness, stormy, rain and nighttime = Excellent time for a night dive.

If D-Day had been fought on DANGER BEACH, the Germans wouldn't have needed guns. Unless the allies had surf boards, in which case...AWwwwESOME!!!!!

Was it curiosity that killed the monkey with the hand grenade?

In case something happens, here's where I told someone.

Dave and I have decided in the last 5 mins to drive to wicklow and climb a mountain in the dark right now for the laugh. Should get there about 1am.

Update:
Had a brief period of not contacting anyone. Really sorry to anyone I cut off. Kinda got over loaded and had to compartmentalize my life. You know you've compartmentalized your brain when you can make a joke and not get it.

After 18 days without a day off I got one today but it's weird, I kind of don't want a day off. I'm like one of those prisoners who get 14 years and then re offend as soon as the get out because they can't deal with the outside world. I just miss it already. That center is my baby.

My glasses were run over by a horde of kids. They broke.I fixed them.
Then they were run over by a jeep. They were flattened, i fixed them to the best of my ability. The lenses don't exactly fit anymore and the frame tends to spit them out now and then.

A diving watch that says 100 meters is lying. Mine imploded at 26 meters.

My binoculars will hopefully make some fish or crab at the bottom of the sea very happy.

The lovely German surfer girl I met is now (hurray!) my lovely girlfriend. Caro (short for Carolin) is simply wonderful. We plan to get a minibus and do a windsurfing tour of Hawaii. I like this girl way too much already. I is very happy.

Okays, gotta run and get new glasses, watch, binos, shoes, sunglasses, clothes and stuff.
Spend Spend Spend!

Met a lovely German surfer girl who refused to believe I was Irish and insisted that I should be German. I'm going to take that as a compliment. Had to throw her out unfortunately and go mind the kids on the water but wow, I wished at that moment I'd done German instead of French.

I've decided to take the managers position in Fingal Sailing School in Malahide this year. So free rentals to friends if anyone wants to try kayaking, sailing or windsurfing.

Lots of other stuff going on but unfortunately it's Home and Away magnitude and a number of security levels above friends only. The kind with chrome doors and flashy red lights.

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Also it turns out that it's my birthday this day next week (bank holiday monday). I'm thinking of heading out for an afternoon cruise and a maybe a picnic/BBQ on the one of the islands if anyone wants to join me. The weather forecast is for a sunny day. I know most of us have exams soon but if you want a short break for an afternoon, this is gona be serious fun. There's a small kitchen onboard and some nice cushions to ly on out in the sun. Might catch some lunch :)

I can only fit 5 onboard the Hulabaloo but I can ferry a later bunch of people straight out to the island on the Ragnarok, it's only 5 mins from the south beach by speed boat so we can do a few trips.

-If people are interested, let me know. I plan to leave port at 1pm, sail to the island for 2.30pm, anchor, drop off people collect anyone else from the beach and bring them to the island for 3pm, have the BBQ and maybe a treasure hunt then head back for 5.30pm. That's the general plan. There are trains and buses to Skerries. No need for sailing gear, life jackets provided,  formal wear is optional.

I think I'm clinically addicted to hugs.  I haven't been hugged for 6 days,  21 hours and I'm seriously considering some kind of drug substitute.  If only there was such a thing as a hug drug. Or even a hug dealer.