Latin?

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Well, yes.  Latin.  I did buy manuals to begin learning, some time back if you recall.  I have yet to purchase reviewed and acceptable oral Latin CDs/DVDs, but I have found a set for that.  At about $100 I have been holding off.  I am hoping to make that purchase in January.  However, I would like to begin with Henle's first book.  To that end I went in search of a guide to using that book, a course schedule, curriculum.  The internet kept telling me to just buy "the guide(tm)".  I thought I had purchased everything for the first two years already, but that guide did not seem to be with my collection of books.  Hmm, one more look.  Ah, there it was!  It was thin, much larger otherwise, and under some other books and receipts on my bedstand.

Since I need to back off some things, and I don't want to simply game, I thought to set the material out for in the "morning" (whenever I wake up).  Since I am doing well with a host of typical daily events such as, weighing myself, checking bp, feeding the girls, de-pooping their kitty litter, making coffee, taking meds, and feeding my face, that adding in an hour or two of instructions might be doable.  While Latin is not easy, to be sure, neither was German or French.  If I have forgotten most of what I learned of those, I learned them well enough to roughly pass as a native, at one time, with some brevity of speaking on my part (in French, at least, the bastages).  The difficult part, regarding Latin, is there are two aspects to it (functionally, regarding general world use, not including various archaic national pronunciations, or even eras of the true ancient language itself).  There is ecclesiastic and classic Latin, within the realm of non-hyper-academic usage.  How different the two are I can't yet say.  I haven't seen too much from the ecclesiastic side other than that there are differences and limitations to both, but the classic side seems to be full of vulgar twits who seriously look down their noses at the group that kept the language alive for them to base their snobbishness upon, heh.  Never mind, just... noting.  Just read through some of the comments on secular Latin forums if you don't believe me.  That is to be expected from the Godless.  The thing is, I am not sure if this is going to end up being more like learning medieval and modern French, all at once, or if there are only slight variances...  Ugh.  Still, tomorrow will see me at the start.  Oh, and Henle's teaches both, at once if you wish it.

Dinner was quite good.  Instead of mashed potatoes, however, I used up the baking potatoes my mother had purchased while here, and as baked potatoes.  I only ate one, but I baked all four.  They are quite good fried, or in any number of ways.  Once pre-baked it is merely a matter of heating them in some manner.  I also fried onions and mushrooms in the pan, before adding the steak.  Tossing the asparagus over the simmering piles of mushonions to simmer for the last few minutes saw me to a fine meal.  A couple of slices of rye toast on the side, with a glass of milk, clenched the deal.  It was such a good meal I had to use a real plate and stainless utensils, but everything is washed, and most of it is dried and put away, save for the over-the-pan grease catcher.  It'll dry just fine overnight though.

Yeah, bed is calling.  Even the girls have called it a night.  Quitters!  Heh. 

Good night.