The joy of microblogging with coffee

Hey, it’s Bernie Goldbach and it’s the 20th of April, 2026.

This is episode 695 if you’re keeping count.

Today I’m in the coffee hub.

It’s called The Hub and it’s in Clann Mell.

And I realized that I’m going back and forth on my phone because I want to record this, but my phone’s popped off the screen where I can see what I’m doing.

But I imagine it’s still recording.

I’ll say it is.

If I touch my mobile phone to my ear, apparently the screen kind of goes wonky.

I have to change that sensitivity, just keep it in focus.

Anyway, today I’m going to pretend I’m a tourist and I’m going to walk from a coffee shop that I would recommend.

I like its lighting, its music, its amenities, the thing you can buy, the stuff you can buy.

It’s really authentically Irish.

And I know that because clientele is young from one month old kids with their moms to older people that are older than I am here.

Either having a full breakfast or just meeting up with friends.

I’ll share a shot of that and put into the description a Flickr URL that goes to it.

For now I feel tired and I shouldn’t.

I have an app called Whoop on my wrist and it’s telling me that I achieved better than 70% of sleep.

So that means a combination of did I get sleep, was it efficient sleep and something else that matters.

Three different variables, constants.

But my eyes feel tired and I think it’s because at 5.15 in the morning I snapped a shot of dawn coming through the back garden.

I probably had to concentrate on that.

Yeah I did.

I didn’t use glasses to do it.

I need to use my glasses when I write words.

I put that up on Instagram and it went across to Facebook.

Top Gold is where I am on those places.

So I’m blaming that as the reason why my eyes feel tired.

What I have to do today is go to a tourism event.

So like I said, I’ll pretend I’m a tourist.

Stop at a coffee shop, walk up the main street, the O’Connell Street of Clonmel and I’ll catch a bus that goes towards a town called Feathered where a lot of very rich horses live.

I’ll get off halfway at a town, a village called Lisrona and there’s a golf course there, Sleednamon.

If you’re listening Paul O’Mahony you’d enjoy it.

So it has lovely scenery as you would expect including a view of Sleednamon, the big mountain.

With me I’m taking my project planning book.

Before I go there I ought to send an email to Tipperary Tourism saying you know what some of these providers might be interested in a program that I’m trying to teach with the Tipperary Chamber Skillnet.

It’s about AI for productivity.

So I’m taking an outline of that in one of my Leuchtturms.

I have a hardcover Leuchtturm that includes pull quotes, main bullet statements from the program that I teach.

And I’m also carrying my iPad mini.

But in fact if you saw me you’d spot me with a blue backpack.

All this stuff’s in my backpack.

Perhaps I should recap what I’m doing by writing about it on my blog topgold.ie.

I need to also purchase an annual license for the back-end service.

It’s called Ghost.

Lots of people use Substack and I even have an account in Substack there for the algorithm.

But I prefer to spend the money on a place that has a greater claim to my ownership of the content.

So I’m paying for ghost.org.

It’s a CMS, a content management system that’s used by Cloudflare.

It’s used by Airtable for its blog.

Duolingo use it for their blog.

There’s a bunch of other services that I pay to use.

Anyway, I am tired.

My eyes are tired and I’m calling this quits right now.

Talk to you later.

You’re going to see more stuff inside you.ie is where I blog.

I’m going to try to post this content over there as well.

Thanks for listening Simon Toon.

Bye for now.