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Busy….
As mia_mcdavid forecast, we had a busy weekend. colgaffneyis basket making workshop yesterday was interesting and fun basketmaking
Monday Night Irish Class, March 3, 2008
Irish Class, March 3, 2008
Irish Class, March 3, 2008
The first part of class was a translation exercise, with a twist: We were given 12
simple sentences in Scottish Gaelic, and asked to produce the Irish
equivalent, and the English translation:
Wood from the front yard
A crew from the city came by a few weeks ago and trimmed our front yard tree–the branches were hanging way out over the street. We saved the branches to see if I could make anything out of them with green woodworking techniques using only hand (non-electric) tools. After a couple hours of hard work with saws, splitting wedges and a maul, and other tools, the answer is yes: Firewood (if we let it dry for a couple years). The branches were just too knotty and bent to get any useful length of straight-grained wood. Perhaps I will be able to carve a few spoons. This was about what I expected from the literature; you really need wood from the tree’s trunk, and from the trunk of the right tree. My selection here in a first ring suburb is limited.
I kept trying for quite a while, and it was with some difficulty I tore myself away from the effort. However, that was the right thing to do. I was tired, and might have made a mistake. So I quit while I still had ten fingers, and all of my blood was still inside my body. Well, I certainly got my exercise today.
Tom Update
We saw Tom yesterday. We decided to treat this like our regular visits since he moved out of our house back in 2006. So we picked him up from where he is now staying, the crisis center in West St, Paul, and took him to lunch at the Highland Grill. This worked out very well, although Tom was very hungry. We saw once again that Tom likes quite spicy food, and despite his food allergies, has a much wide range of taste than his brother. Afterwards we took a walk around the neighborhood, a very pleasant part of St. Paul. It had a delightful sense of normalcy. Tom was in good spirits and seems to be doing very well at the Crisis Center.
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Monday night Irish Class, February 25, 2008
February 25, 2008
Irish Class, February 25, 2008.
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We started with some number drills–
counting objects.
This was a review of material from <!– 9/24 –>
9/24 and
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10/1.
When you use plural forms for counting you start at three, not two. In
Irish two takes the singular.
| aon bhád amháin | one boat | [or] |
| bád amháin | one boat | |
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| uan | lamb | m1 |
| naoi n-uan | nine lambs | n- eclipses a vowel |
| capall | horse | m1 |
- m1 nouns use the same form for the genitive singular and the nominative
plural (slenderize the final consonant). - In Munster initial bh- is pronounced /v/ even as a broad consonant,
instead of /w-/.
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Next was a review of
body parts
from <!–
11/12/2007–>11/12/2007.
There was some discussion of on-line resources.
Beo was particularly recommended.
With four students in the class, we split into two pairs. Each pair was given a theme for a dialog to compose. We then read them and the other pair had to figure out who we were and what we were talking about. My partner was JS, who had her notes from last September’s all class exercise on curses to add some spice to our contribution, a scene in a restaurant between a waiter and a customer.
An evening in a DBA’s life
I got a call a little before 8 last night from the Windows OS staff at my job. A routine patching process (Microsoft systems need so much patching you might as well make a routine of it) had failed. They could not get the database system to start up. Under the gun
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