So, after running a variety of medical and school related errands with Morgan, I thought I would do some work on my Saab, which was rear-ended a week and a half after I bought it. I was backing, the other driver was skidding, and the Insurance company assigned fault to me, because she had a broken headlight, and I had about $2000 in damage.* So ( Read more... )

Precis: Footage of an homage concert to Leonard Cohen framed by commentary from Cohen and the performers ( Read more... )

We found Cuchulainn. The idiot was in the basement all this time, doing an excellent job of Not Being Seen. He would occasionally make himself heard, which always resulted in me looking for him, but he was nowhere to be seen ( Read more... )

On Friday, I wandered out to Temple Israel's website and noticed that there were donations of physical objects (food, supplies, etc.) being accepted for Nechama to deliver to the victims. I also learned that the donations would be getting sorted and packed at the JCC's on Sunday and volunteers would be needed ( Read more... )

An Atari 2600 Video Game whose premise is to get the Journey Band Members to their "E5C4P3 Scarab.":
http://www.journey-tribute.com/journey/resources/atari2600/
Is there any more emblematic artifact of the eighties than a Journey Atari game?

Today, at our congregational "service in the round" I had an Aliyah, i.e, I read from the Torah before the congregation. I'ne spent about the past three weeks rehearsing for this, learning how to read trope markings, using a .wav file I ripped from a tape our cantor made for me. After I learned the first couple of verses from the tape the trope ( Read more... )

the high school meme...

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Just fixed morgan1's bathroom faucet which has had a costly leak for over a year. The washers needed replaced, and while I was at it, I gave the valve stems and seats some TLC with a Toothbrush and Lube ( Read more... )

Instead of Tefillin
I bind my arm with the cuff of a sphygmomanometer
I press start
And await judgment from a beit din
of MAP sensors and printed circuits
Diastolic trending downward,
I am inscribed in the book of life another day, at least.

Leave it to morgan1 and Me to get married on Pearl Harbor Day.

Morgan and I have been together for 13 years, the first two of which might be considered courtship, the rest a de facto marriage. Today we presented ourselves before Judge Gary Bastian and what was de facto is now de jure. Judge Bastian was a fine man, wearing jeans and a t-shirt beneath ( Read more... )