Nice! And do I even want to know what the two words mean that you understand? ;-)

I was not here, and I am so very sorry to hear about your uncle. I hope he will be okay and that is is not too serious.

Can't speak it at all, failte and slainte is about the extent of my knowledge too.
Oh, and póg mo thóin, but I'm not sure swearing counts ;)

Well the one means 'cheers' (sláinte) and 'welcome' (fáilte) but don't ask for pronounciation ;)

Do you think you will stick with the game, or do you think the crashing will eventually cause you to stop playing? Did you read anything nice? (I love sofa naps :-))

Since my partner works at the stables, we can usually borrow some horses at any time, provided they are available. So hopefully next week we can go riding and maybe have a nice picnic. But if not, then there are lots of fun indoor things to do.

Thank you. I hope so too but no news hopefully means good news (hopefully not 'good news', sorry i go for gallows humour in such situations) ...

I actually heard that that. It means 'kiss my ass' or something like that if i'm not mistaken. I got to know some of the irish words by reading novels by Ken Bruen :).

Ach, don't get me started, and I really need to go to bed now. Alarm goes in less than 6 hours. Let's just say it was a fairly frustrating day that was no fun for anyone and I feel really sorry for my kids who were on their own most of the day... but on the other hand behaved so disgustingly in parts that I really had problems keeping my temper. It was just shit and everyone felt bad about it in the end... :-(

I can probably answer that one at least..
Slainte: Slon - che
Failte: Fall - che

Of course, having said that I realise I'm not very good at phonetic spelling... XD
Yup, spot on :)

Can't say I've ever heard of him...

For now I will stick to the game, not sure if until the end, but probably so. I'll just play it in shorter sessions than I normally would.
As for reading, I started re-reading some of my favorite books :D

It reminded me of Montague's Mount, which has a lot of Irish language elements, but those have no real use. For example, non-interactive items had the Irish name with the English word smaller in brackets. however, all the letters that form the storyline are in English. Also, the games claims to be based on a true story, and it is not, I would go as far as saying the created just blatantly lied about that. The game for what it was was okay, but definitely now worth the price, and a few things just did not make sense (the ending, for example. And it was not that I did not understand the ending, I did, but some of the facts make no sense).

Glad to hear you are doing fine, and glad that you had a good day at work yesterday. I had a very nice weekend, despite the heavy rain that spoiled some of my plans.

Thank you.
What i found interesting when i was in Dublin was that irish terms were quite common but a lot of people didn't speak it very well.
(Garda Síochána was Garda Shi-cana iirc...?)

Yay ;).
Huh..that's interesting. I read some crime novels from him set in Galway...

Might have guessed it: I'm really fascinated in Ireland :)

When do you think you will find out if he is okay?

A whole 6 hours sleep? What a light-weight (only joking). :-)

I am very sorry to hear you had such an unfortunate weekend. I was hoping you would have a wonderful long weekend. I will keep my fingers crossed that next weekend will be much better.

Had the sub-forum offered not hope in fixing the problem?

I love re-reading some of my favourite books, I usually do that when I am not able to give a new book the attention it requires, such as when I have such little time or I am too tired really to get into a new book like it deserves.

Hey l0rdtr3k,

Not too bad, just been playing Star Wars Rebellion and working. Unfortunately while I thought I was doing well, I fear the tide has turned and the Empire may soon crush my little rebel alliance... :(
But maybe that just means next time I should play as the Empire ;)

Probably as soon as my aunt tells us. Unfortunately no one of my family here in Hamburg will be able to travel to Hesse in the next days...