Getting used to this blogging stuff

Our first “meal” in Ireland — Guinness for me, Smithwicks for Paula. So it’s about 6 AM Wausau time, and we’re approaching 24 hours since we arose in Chicago. Paula has about an hour of sleep on the plane, myself about 10 minutes dozing during the movies — Cloud Atlas and two thirds of Zero Dark Thirty. Now fighting to stay awake until our room is ready, then crash! And working on the blog to train myself and get used to the structure and occupy such of my mind as still functions. All-nighters – a younger person’s game.