It's been an... eventful few days. I spent last weekend visiting my baby sister in Brussels, where she moved over the summer for an airline security job. We flew out quite a group - my parents, aunt and uncle, and my grandmother, who was one of the reasons I wanted to join now and not go visit baby sis on my own; I want to take every opportunity I ( Read more... )

So, as I've mentioned, the NHL has been dealing with an outbreak of the mumps. It started in California, transferred to Minnesota, New York, and the latest, New Jersey. I have no idea what the NHL is actually doing in order to prevent the spread of the disease, but its questionable secrecy regarding player injuries is becoming more than ridiculous ( Read more... )

I can't decide if I'm more dismayed or freaked out at today's news of a Palestinian minister being killed in a confrontation with the IDF. Sorry, dying in a confrontation, as per Ynet's headline, he just dropped dead, you know, terrible timing. The item's already been bumped from the headlines in favor of news about the economy, which feels like ( Read more... )

Two and a half years ago, I gave a friend and colleague a ride home from work, or well, I was going to. It had been a rough day and our plan was to get home and watch Casablanca, but something felt off as I exited the parking lot, and I parked the car outside the office building to discover a flat tire ( Read more... )

Yes, it is time to admit it. I have not actually been posting December entries at 11:59PM each night, but have, in fact, been backdating entries posted a full 30-60 minutes later. Or in today's case, 6AM. Let's face it, there's virtually no way for me to actually manage posting coherent things by midnight, so I'm just going to post whenever I post ( Read more... )

There was an oil spill down in the desert yesterday, leading down to Eilat. We don't have a lot of oil to begin with, we're not like, oil country, but we had this one well just kinda going slow and steady, except apparently not that steady. The photos are actually breathtaking but it's a catastrophe pretty much ( Read more... )

Post friend's engagement party dinner, it's way too late and I have company, so I'll just shoot this off quick:

Day 3 rec:

How To Grow The Perfect Playoff Beard In One Simple Chomp by
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Two conversations I had today at check out counters:

1, because my name is super unique:

[at take out restaurant:]
Cashier: Your name?
Me: [my name]
Cashier: I just rang up like 18 of you, could you give me another one?

2, your automatic sale item promotions could use work:[at gas station convenience store ( Read more... )

Happy December!
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Ahhhh things are starting to come back and I'm on this like, EMOTIONAL OVERLOAD OF FEELINGS ( Read more... )