My nerves are getting frayed. In the first few days I bore it with patience. After all, the civilians on the other side don't have the excellent air defense system we have here so they are in for much worse ( Read more... )

Alas, so is my vacation. Or shall we call it "time off work" because it was not a vacation, really ( Read more... )

But apparently Murphy had other plans in mind ( Read more... )

Got this thing:


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I scheduled one of my Japanese-speaking meetings for yesterday. The reason I do them on Wednesday after a day of work is that during the basketball season I have games on Thursdays, and I do not miss (Euroleague) games. So I scheduled it for yesterday. There was good response, with 10-15 people RSVPing. Which meant I should make a pile of food ( Read more... )

Winter finally decided to find its way to Israel. All the rain that we were missing for months, all the winds of autumn that we didn't feel - all descended on us yesterday. At once ( Read more... )