That time of year again...

Once again, I'm hosting and leading large parts of a Tikkun Leil Shavu`ot this Tuesday evening, and as always happens two days before I'm wishing I wasn't. I've been through this cycle often enough to know that (assuming that with God's help it goes reasonably well) I'll get over this feeling and be longing to do another ( Read more... )

I'm so glad you asked. I feel like the interviewer (John Cleese) in the Monty Python Secret Service sketch:

Last ball of the over I gave him a slow one - threw it right up in the air - he came all the way down - took the ball on the full toss - hit the ball back at me like a bullet - didn’t have a chance to move - ball hit me straight between the ( Read more... )

The first month at work was not bad: I fixed 8 bugs and have been working on several others, and documenting some things that weren't well documented, and participating in discussions at standards bodies connected to things I want to fix in the near future ( Read more... )

I don't have so much to whine about any more. I signed a contract last week with a software company somewhere in the USA, and I am working for them from home ( Read more... )

Meme from Mirty's place:

Seven celebrity crushes:

1. Uma Thurman
2. Michelle Pfeiffer
3. Salma Hayek
4. Sting
5. Alyssa Milano

We're just back from three marvellous weeks in the country where I was born. It was the first time in about eight years that I've been there just to enjoy myself. The last few trips have all been for unpleasant reasons, like my grandmother being ill, my mother's funeral, and my mother's stone-setting. We had a large family get-together which was ( Read more... )

Another thing to grumble about: all the cool kids are already posting about HP6 on their blogs, and bringing in Latin etymology while they are about it, and by the time I allow myself to read the entries the whole thing will be totally passé and there will be no point in my commenting. NaomiChana, pretty please with a cherry on top, can you repeat ( Read more... )

My laptop decided to die on me this week, and I have no idea where to fix it in this country, so the time I spend on line has dropped almost to zero (by my standards at least).

This may be a good thing, since my Wonderful Niece is buying my son Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince as a late birthday present ( Read more... )

My niece arrived here on a student summer trip tonight and I went out to meet her at 1 am, which was well worth it since she brought with her the electric guitar which her sister is selling to my daughter, and chocolate, and a bottle of duty free gin. It's now 2:45 and I have to be up in 3¼ hours, and I don't feel remotely like sleeping. I think I' ( Read more... )

This is annoying, and what makes it more annoying is that I'm not sure where to blog about it. Here where I can't actually specify what happened if I want to be anonymous, or on my other blog where I can't rant about it in case the other people involved might read it ( Read more... )