SlantyOD has pointed out that flights to Ireland are fairly cheap.  But there are alternatives.  For example, check out Google Maps instructions for Vancouver to Belfast  See in particular, step 23.

In other news, the wife is telling her employees about her condition today.  I guess that makes it official.  I’ve got to start worrying about cribs, strollers, daycare and university.  I’ll add it to the to-do list.

And in “unreal news” (and maybe it is unreal) here’s a photo and video from Japan that purports to show goldfish living in a layer of water inside a functioning deep fryer.  Makes me think about the forty fish and end of that.