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Lion isteach na bearnaí. (And translations!)
a) Seán is working late and sends a note to Máire, his wife
A Mháire, a stór,
Tá mé ag scríobh an nóta seo mor tá an fón as ord. Beidh mé ag obair go dtí a seacht a chlog anocht. Bhí mé ag caint le Diarmaid agus beidh sé ag dul go Páras amárach. Tá mé ag cur an nóta seo le Máiréad.
Seán

My dear Mary/Maire
I am writing this note [something something crap.] I will be working at the office until [something] till seven o'clock tonight. I was talking with Diarmuid and he will be going to Paris tomorrow. I [something something argh. progressive/present tense verb] this note for Mairead/Margaret?
Sean

b) Padraig is on holiday and sends a card to Liam (ag seinm (ceol) = playing music)
A Liam, a chara,
Tá mé ag scríobh ón óstán. Tá mé ag seisiún sa bheár le cúpla cara dom agus tá an chraic go hiontach. Tá muid ag ól pionta Murphy's (Tá sé go deas). Tá muid ag canadh agus ag dhamsa. Beidh grúpa ceol ag seinm níos déanaí. Beidh Síle ag teacht anocht agus beidh muid ag dul go Cill Airne amároch.
Slán agus beannacht
Pádraig.

Dear Liam,
I am writing from the hotel. I have a session/am playing? at the bar with a couple friends of mine and [something something?] wonderful. We're having a pint at Murphy's (It was nice/went well?). We were singing and dancing. The music group [something] late? Sile will be coming tonight and we will go to Killarny tomorrow.
Best wishes [lit. health and blessings]
Padraig.


... I love the internet. It makes language learning so much easier. Especially online dictionaries/wiktionaries. Which isn't to say that translation was at all easy or accurate or, blargh. Need a better dictionary.

Inspection tomorrow! Comedy tonight? Hopefully not. No Japanese last night because I got in, did my writing, and ended up being so tired I just crashed and went straight to bed. Today looks like it might be a relatively quiet day so hopefully there will be a bunch more writing. I've got probably three stories I'll be working on today at work and maybe some filing, two fanfiction and one Black Ice story, and we'll see how that goes. Also need to look over translation work and that should be it for today. Here's hoping.

We're supposed to have snow sometime in the next day or so. I'm not entirely sure how, but for once it's feeling like it might be cold enough to snow, and me without my winter coat. Because it's been in the fucking fifties for the past three weeks or so.

I feel like somehow there should be more to this post, except there really isn't. Mostly my life these days is house, writing, house, writing. Sometimes cleaning. I really, really need to get off my ass this weekend and do the translation of that one short fic I wrote into Spanish, French, possibly German, and Russian, and slap it up on my website as a sample of what I can do. Writing tools come first, though. And, you know. Actual writing. But this is about the sum total of my life, which leads back to the whole yeah. I'm boring. Thing. Unless I take a wild hair and go ranting about something.

Oh, and if anyone needs a Valentine's Day dragon from the past three years, I have them and haven't bred any yet so I can probably come up with an egg. Or several.