On Getting Sick And Its Benefits

The good thing about getting sick, and why everyone (including me) should welcome the opportunity, is that it really is true that what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger. In order to display genetic fitness, a strong immune system is of key importance. And the way to get a strong immune system is to be exposed to germs and viruses that you will overcome. So every time an illness comes your way, you really ought to appreciate the opportunity to become slightly superior to another individual and thus begin to out-compete that individual.

On Where I've Been, Where I've To Go

Here's my checklist of counties I've been to in Ireland and Northern Ireland. I've a ways to go... though I've got Connaught done! Then again, it'd be embarrassing if I didn't as I do, after all, live in Co Galway.


Ulster:
(_) Antrim
(_) Armagh
(_) Cavan
(_) Derry
(X) Donegal
(_) Down
(_) Fermanagh
(_) Monaghan
(_) Tyrone

Leinster:
(_) Carlow
(X) Dublin
(X) Kildare
(_) Kilkenny
(_) Laois
(_) Longford
(_) Louth
(X) Meath
(X) Offaly
(X) Westmeath
(_) Wexford
(X) Wicklow

Munster:
(X) Clare
(_) Cork
(X) Kerry
(X) Limerick
(_) Tipperary
(_) Waterford

Connaght:
(X) Galway
(X) Leitrim
(X) Mayo
(X) Roscommon
(X) Sligo

On The Changes of February

February, it seems, is astoundingly different from December and January. Or perhaps it's just this year. However, we've not had rain in nearly a week and a half, we had a week in which it was quite (relatively) sunny, and the wind is slow and without ill intent. We've had quite a bit of fog; one day it rolled in off the bay so fast that within five minutes it went from being gorgeously sunny to completely enshrouded in fog so that you'd not see 30m in front of you. And we're not even very close to the bay.