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I'm back safely.

Went to brunch at Oak Hill Kitchen with my friends, and didn't leave in time to hit 5pm Mass at St. Mary's in New Haven and the session at the Liffey, but it's probably just as well, as I was/am pretty well worn out. Went to half-five at my own parish--got Father Joseph from Uganda, who's brilliant, so that was nice--had supper leis na rents, and spent most of the rest of the time playing with Minnie.

Arts Week was grand. Con Fada Ó Drisceoil, of "The Spoons Murder" fame, was there, and so was Jimmy Crowley, so there was lots of grand Corkonian song content this year.

Saw a guy trying to play spoons with plastic spoons last night in Furlong's. Was pretty funny. I'm now firmly in favour of this, as it rendered him essentially harmless. If I ever own a pub, there won't be a single metal spoon in the place.

This is amusing, at least to me

Uproar in Kerry as Fleadh goes sets-mad.

I detest the Irish Independent as a snotty pack of seoinín twits, but this is pretty funny.

Quoting the above-linked article:
'We are sets mad down here". There'll be "straight sets, illicit sets, wild sets, casual sets, gay sets, unprotected sets -- whatever turns you on!'

So goes a radio advert for the normally conservative Munster Fleadh Cheoil.
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Bhuel, I'm trying Firefox

Opera keeps crashing, although I've got the most current version. Some of the problem may be that I really need to simply scour the hard drive and reinstall, but that needs to wait until I get a CD-R/DVD drive that works, and I keep not getting round to that.*

So, I decided to have a look at Firefox. And, lo and behold, they have not simply multi-lingual support, but a version entirely in Irish. So that's what I've got running now. So far, is brea liom é!

*Speaking of which, how hard is it to put one into a laptop yourself? I feel fairly sure that I could do it on a desktop, but my computer is a laptop--Compaq Presario.