Jan 11, 2004 21:20
Seen while walking home Saturday: a car with blinkers
on, being followed by two police cars with flashing
lights but not sirens, all going about 30mph, and all
running a red light at a busy intersection. If
the police were escorting the car I would have expected
one in front and one behind; if they were chasing
the car, they weren't doing a very good job of it.
There were plenty of places to pull over, so it
wasn't a traffic stop in search of handy road-side.
The whole procession turned a corner and I lost
sight of them. How odd.
This weekend I read about a new (expensive) geek-appeal
gadget, a robotic vacuum cleaner. It wanders around
your house and automatically goes to the docking station
to recharge or empty itself when needed. The review
I saw said that it's slow -- its navigation isn't
the greatest, so it might do a stretch several times
before getting to parts it hasn't done yet -- but
since it's the robot's time, the reviewer
doesn't care. He was out running errands. :-)
This sounds handy (though I do wonder how pets
would view it). Now if they could just build
the laundry robot, the shopping robot, and the
kitchen-cleaning robot, life would be grand.
(At $1500, I should clarify that this is
wishful thinking, not a planned purchase.)
Shabbat morning we had another new torah reader
(and new service leader, the mother of the torah
reader). They both did good jobs and I think the
mother, at least, will sign up to do this again
(and even read torah). I am pleased by the progress
our minyan is making, building participation one
person at a time. We need to think about workshops
or tutorials or something for people who lack
self-confidence. (There are several people who
I think would do just fine, but they
don't think so yet.)
Today was the local SCA group's 12th-night event.
It was a fun, low-key event, like many I remember
from 20 years ago. This was the second year we've
done it; I hope this establishes the tradition. :-)
Free site (university), pot-luck feast, good mix
of planned activities and schmooze time -- very
pleasant and comfortable.
Mapquest says Pittsburgh to Cincinnati is a 4.5-hour
drive (slightly under). Is that really right? I
thought Pittsburgh to Columbus was close
to four hours, and Cincinnati is a good deal beyond
that. I thought Cincinnati would be 6 or 7 hours
just from looking at a map.
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