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I am not even tackling pronunciation just yet, and maybe not ever in the morning. Ugh. But here, word order and simple sentences. Irish being a Verb-Subject-Object language. If there are three participants, the indirect object will be preceded by a preposition and follow the other two. If the direct object is a pronoun, that pronoun will usually come last.

Thug Máire carr do Liam. Máire gave a car to Liam.
D'inis Máime scéal do Niamh. Mommy told Niamh a story.
Thug Máire do Liam é. Máire gave it to Liam.
Thug sí carr dom. She gave me a car. (dom = do + mé)
Thug sí dom é. She gave it to me.

Rearrange the words into an Irish sentence.
1. Thug Séamas bláthanna dom.
2. Tá go leor bia ar an mbord.
3. Cheannaigh Bríd teach nua in Albain inné.
4. Tá mo chara anseo inniu.
5. Thóg Máirtín an teach mór sin.

Combine words from the list of adjectives and nouns to make fifteen meaningful phrases
1. teach mór
2. lá deas
3. carr daor
4. lá fuar
5. samhradh te
6. buachaill álainn
7. leabhar maith
8. úll mór
9. duine bocht
10. teach deas
11. bia te
12. samhradh maith
13. cailín iontach
14. teach beag
15. leabhar daor

Now add one or more of the following to the phrases constructed above, as appropriate: an, cúpla, seo, éigin, amháin, sin
1. an teach mór sin
2. lá deas amháin
3. an carr daor seo
4. an lá fuar
5. an samhradh te, amháin samhradh te
6. an buachaill álainn sin
7. cúpla leabhar maith
8. cúpla úll mór
9. an duine bocht
10. an teach deas seo
11. an bia te
12. samhradh maith éigin
13. an chailín iontach
14. an teach beag seo
15. leabhar daor éigin




Hey look, back to weekly routines. It took a week after Dragon*Con to fully recover, but at least it happened. I should also go back and finish the con reports for the last couple of days; right now it's all a bit of a blur. They are, though, starting to change over the Dragon*Con website from last year to looking forward to next year, so hopefully the DC heroes photoshoot will be up soon. And at some point I need to upload all the pictures from the camera onto some kind of album. I even managed to put the chip into my netbook, so maybe I'll do that tonight.

And I am starting to get back into routines. I did a chunk of exercises this morning, not all of them but enough to give me an idea of where I am, which is oh dear god how much muscle tone have I lost. How much ability to do basic exercises without aching. Hopefully that'll come back as quickly as it went away. I miss being fit. And I'm still fit, or at least pretty much so, but it's been three weeks between illness, Dragon*Con, and recovery, and I'm on the verge of not being where I want to be.

But on the plus side I'm not prepping for Dragon*Con anymore? It's amazing how much energy I was flinging at that. I still have a backlog of blogging to deal with (not a short-term backlog, just the general backlog of episodes we're slogging through) and fresh seasons are about to start up soon, so there's that stress, never mind the book publishing. But it's slowly getting done. I have one thing off my plate, I'm starting to get the house actually cleaned again only this time I'm doing it bit by bit since I don't have company coming over and there's not the urgency of "augh quick clean ALL THE THINGS." It's nice not to have a lot of urgency to deal with. Our next house project is going around and winterizing it as we didn't do last year because we'd just moved in and ugh. Which mostly means patching up the holes in the floor left by the radiators getting pulled out and replaced with radiators that only have interior holes. But anyway, that'll wait a couple weekends till more towards the end of September.

So, yeah. House in order, novel things, and blog. That's actually at least one thing less than I was dealing with previously, and it feels like a great weight has been lifted. Never mind that it's only one thing, still feels like a weight. One and a half things given the absence of deadlines for house being clean? I feel much more relaxed and like I can do things. Which is a good thing since Black Ice looks on time to drop on the 30th.

And in the category of family randomness: I knew, vaguely, though I don't think I remembered to mention it here for posterity, that grandpa owned a small printing press when he was in high school and ran a newspaper. I didn't know that he also played the accordion in a small band with four other boys and sometimes they played for school dances. My family, ladies and gentlemen. Even the people I think aren't musically inclined were musically inclined before I was born.