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Using 'acu' to mean 'of them'
This is a form of the preposition ag (at). Its main function is to indicate possession. e.g.

Tá teach mór acu. They have a big house.

However, acu, along with other plural forms againn and agaibh, are also used in counting people, as follows:
duine againn - one of us
duine agaibh - one of you
duine acu - one of them
beirt again - two of us
beirt agaibh - two of you
beirt acu - two of them

The other personal numbers can also be used here, i.e. triúr (three people), ceathrar (four people), etc. You enquire about numbers of people or things as follows:

Cé mhéad acu a bhí ann? How many of them were there?
Cé mhéad acu atá uait? How many of them do you want?
Cé mhéad agaibh a chuaigh ann? How many of you went there?

Of course, the meanings of certain verbs can be altered with the addition of a preposition:
baineann - extracts
baineann amach - achieves
titeann - falls
titeann amach - happens
imigh - go away
imigh leat! - clear off!
tugann - gives
tugann faoi deara - notices
téann - goes
téann le - devotes oneself to

Okay. FINE. Last week was kind of fucked as far as routines went, with little things all over the place chipping away at my sanity, let's see how this one goes. Medium sized things? I've gotten to the point where I can lean on my routines if there are little things, and these weren't big things like people dying or anything (and it's really depressing that that's more than a permanent background possibility, the way friends of mine and friends and relatives of friends have been dying this year), but the car accident damaged my calm the rest of the day, and there was being sick on Monday, and. Generally, ugh.

But this weekend was nice. I got to rest, I got to pick up the house a little, I got to have a restful, productive birthday with lunch out and frozen yogurt and I got to say "It's my birthday, precious, and I wants it" not once but TWICE. And it WORKED. It was amazing. I went and bought that hip holster on ThinkGeek that I've been eyeing for several months now for my birthday present for me, so it wasn't that bad this weekend, overall. Mostly, I got to rest.

This week is going to be interesting. Mostly in the Murderboarding blogwork interesting, at least, I got most of Person of Interest done for this week over the weekend, and will probably finish it up today, but that's largely because tomorrow night's Grimm proposes to be full of conspiracy and metaplot and information and it will take us the bulk of the coming week to untangle the whole fucker. Goddamn season finales. Though at the same time I'm looking forward to seeing Roiz and Frain on the screen at the same time.

Aand. Other stuff. Today I'm going to try to get Gods & Monsters hammered out into a draft during work, I was trying to do that yesterday but the main character threw me a few curveballs. As she is wont to do, but grr. And that way I don't have to worry about that, either, while I'm dealing with Grimm. The rest of it can wait another day or so. Well, at least another day. Here's hoping.