It’s still June 6, and we’re back in Trumpistan. Boston, to be precise. We’re waiting on a flight to Nashville, a flight that we would not have taken except for wanting to see my brother. Which won’t happen, but that’s a story for another time.

JetBlue, our connection after Aer Lingus, has a weird, weird process of not assigning seats until 50 minutes before departure. Really? I thought Southwest was quirky. Never flown JB before, probably won’t again. So here we sit in Boston waiting to know where we’ll sit on the next flight. With my luck it’ll be on the wing or in the restroom.

On the way in I decided to listen to some music instead of reading, and I really enjoyed listening to all of my usual tunes via headphones. Wolf Alice, Rush, Tame Impala, Blue Oyster Cult…I was rocking at 30K feet over Greenland. I might become a headphones guy after all – the sounds were really good. As an engineer and a gear freak, I love speakers and amps, but music played straight through headphones…it’s pretty great. Pure. I can hear a few things that I don’t hear with any of my systems, and that’s saying a lot.

Speaking of systems, I just bought a sweet Harman Kardon 330c on eBay, and it’ll get delivered to CA in 4-5 days. It should sound spectacular with the Spatials. Call it a Fathers Day gift or a birthday gift. I bought it while chilling out in the back of nowhere, Ireland – actually, on the upper lake of the national park in Killarney. Weird. Almost as weird as buying our KY house sight unseen while on a volcano in Hawaii. But that’s the way I seem to roll. That said, the KY house was almost exactly 1000x the price of the HK, so…not a big deal.

Another hour and we’ll be off to TN. Yee haw.

I’m waaaay behind posting items about the trip. In Dublin airport lounge now, waiting for our flight to Boston, connecting to Nashville. Nashville, because we wanted to see my ill brother before going further west.

We’re on our way back to Trumpistan, and the news from there is predictably not good. Maddening, like this note from a health conference. All the shit that Convict Donny and his minions want to impose on US citizens is done in the name of “security”. Fuck them. We won’t be secure until we root out every last MAGA minion in every branch of government. It’ll take a generation. Here’s another atrocity example – convicted criminals get favors from the Preznit, again and again.

It’s pretty sad, going home to a place being destroyed from within. Unless something dramatic/wonderful happens, we have many more months of destruction to put up with.

In the meantime, here’s a picture of the windy wild Kerry Cliffs.