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Happy New Year 5776!  Well it has been, so far, for us at any rate.  The two days of ''Rosh HaShanah'' were filled with prayer, food and friends.  The ''shul’s'' air conditioning was in mostly working order, so that was a welcome development. As promised last week, the menu thereof will be presented later in this entry.

Because of the “holiday”, Esther spent most of her non-holiday time working at her paying job.  And because of ''Yom HaKippurim'' next week, she’ll spend a lot of the next week doing the same.  The main problem is that there are deadlines, which fall out during our holy days.  Unfortunately, the IRS doesn’t care much about our holy days, yet.

I spent my non-holiday time this week working on tracking down some persistent problems in [http://8th-dev.com/ 8th] which I had mentioned last week.  To my great relief, I was able to fix them in a completely satisfactory manner — but it took a long time to figure out.  The problem on Raspberry Pi (and Android and iOS, as it happens) was due to something called [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache_coherence “cache coherence”].  Basically, 8th “writes” the code that gets run when the program is started.  On some hardware (like that supported by the OSes mentioned), the computer doesn’t realize that the code was changed before it tries to run it.  This results in occasional misfires (and crashes).  Well anyway, the problem is fixed.

So I’m currently working on wrapping up the next release, 1.1.3; and I’m testing heavily on all platforms.  But Apple — bless their shriveled black souls! — make it ''so difficult'' to deploy your application on the iPhone, that I’m really having trouble performing my testing.  Not your problem, I know; but it’s making me angry.  As it happens, I have succeeded in my iOS testing — so the 1.1.3 release will B”H go out today.

Various things:
* The New York Times [http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/424102/returning-copy-desk-briefly-kevin-d-williamson could use a copy-editor] who isn’t an anti-Semite
* Will the next POTUS [http://www.nationalreview.com/article/423992/obamism-correctable be able to correct Obamism]?  I’m doubtful
* Stupid is as stupid does.  A boy was [http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/09/i-want-it-back-says-boy-arrested-for-bringing-homemade-clock-to-school/ arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school].  I guess they don’t want to encourage the next generation of engineers
* [http://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/mohamed-builds-a-clock-t16968.html On the other hand…]

The orange dust storm subsided before ''yom-tov'', and we are currently enjoying a slight reprieve from the super hot weather.  It will get slightly warmer over the weekend, before dropping and getting (relatively) cool and possibly rainy, prior to ''Yom HaKippurim''; but then it will heat up again.  At least, that’s what the forecast currently says.

Our menu for the New Year included: lots of wine, special ''ḥallah'', potato-leek soup, loquat chicken, brisket, fish, pomegranates, onion quiche, fancy-sliced ratatouille, various ''salatim'', honey cake, and apple cake.

Just us three this week.  We’ll have:<br>
loquat chicken,
Chinese noodles with mushrooms green beans and cashews,
''tortilla de acelga'' (chard tarte),
roasted vegetables,
''salatim'',
and fruit.


Until next time,<br>
''shabbat shalom'' and ''gemar ḥatimah tovah''!

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