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Are you ready for ''pesaḥ'' (Passover) yet? We’ve been ready pretty much since Tuesday, after we finished getting the kitchen prepared. That made the week seem a lot longer than usual, as we anticipated the final preparations for the holiday.

Those remaining are: getting the veggies ready, making the ''matza'', making ice-cream, and a few more things. Not too onerous.

We ''had'' been prepared for a full house, but unfortunately some of those we’d invited became ill or otherwise disabled, so the “crowd” will be just us and the faithful Casden clan. We might have enough food for the rest of the week, without cooking…

Things about which you may or may not care:
* Bill Nye, the sellout guy, [https://gizmodo.com/bill-nye-sells-out-shills-for-coca-cola-on-plastic-bot-1848763404 shilling for one of the biggest plastics polluters] on the planet.
* The latest “Star Trek”, “Picard”, has their crew [https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kyle-drennen/2022/04/09/star-trek-crew-beats-ice-agents-frees-bus-illegal-immigrants beating up ICE agents] and freeing illegal immigrants. I don’t remember ST being that unbearably heavy-handed; it’s very off-putting.
* Baltimore Symphony’s conductor has [https://pjmedia.com/spengler/2022/04/10/canceling-beethoven-whos-relevant-to-whom-n1588547 updated Beethoven’s 9th Symphony], replacing the text of Schiller’s “Ode to Joy” with “rap” doggerel. I just can’t, anymore.
* Apple’s “AirTags” are [https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/04/airtags-are-used-for-stalking-far-more-than-previously-reported.html being used for stalking] more and more. Some of us remember having warned about this sort of thing.
* My captive physicist discusses [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kahih8RT1k whether or not nuclear energy] is “green”.
* Solana on the warpath: [https://www.piratewires.com/p/freedom-is-for-nazis “Freedom is for Nazis”].
* Given the current state of the world, Glenn Beck discusses [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIvCGooNbR4 ways to prepare] for incipient food shortages around the world. Some food for thought (yes: pun, as always, intended).

We both worked in between preparations, this week. I managed to find and fix a (somewhat serious) bug in 8th, to which I was alerted by incorrect behavior in the code I was writing for a client. Esther fielded calls from anxious coworkers and clients, and both of us are looking forward to the (partial, for us) rest of the upcoming holiday.

The weather has been wonderful this week: on the cool side but not cold (at night). The forecast for ''shabbat'' is more of the same, with temperatures rising dramatically on Sunday/Monday and then receding back to seasonal norms, with the possibility of cool rain on Wednesday.

It’s not only ''shabbat'', it’s also ''pesaḥ''! We’ll have:<br>
home-made soft ''matza'' as well as hand-made commercial ''matza'';
brisket slowly-braised in apple juice, onions, and carrots;
herbed baked chicken;
[https://www.myjewishlearning.com/the-nosher/the-long-history-of-huevos-haminados-slow-cooked-sephardi-eggs/ ''huevos haminados''];
''ḥaroset'' two ways: [https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/charoset/ Askenazi style], and [https://www.tasteofhome.com/article/date-charoset-recipe/ Sephardi style];
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maror “bitter herbs”];
home-made [https://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/how_to_prepare_horseradish/ horseradish];
roasted carrots and beets,
[https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/204133/old-fashioned-potato-kugel/ potato ''kugel''],
[https://toriavey.com/toris-kitchen/gil-marks-keftes-de-prassa-sephardic-leek-patties/ ''keftes de prasa''],
[https://www.myjewishlearning.com/recipe/bamia-okra-with-tomatoes/ ''bamia'' in tomato sauce],
[https://www.clarin.com/recetas/platos-principales/tortilla-espinaca_7_jlSdaDksm.html ''tortilla de espinacas''],
lots of (good) wine;
Barbara’s ''pesadich'' brownies;
and home-made sorbet and ice-cream.<br>

Until next time,<br>
''shabbat shalom'' and ''ḥag pesaḥ kasher wesameaḥ''!

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Ron at 05:45, 21 April 2022

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