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Our social life exploded this week! <br />
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First, we paid a visit to Sarah and Yarin. We had a nice dinner, a pleasant visit, and an evening away from home. Then, we celebrated our 16<sup>th</sup> “aliyahversary” with the friends with whom we made aliyah, as is our custom. This time, we attended the Jerusalem Wine Festival — our first time in a long time. Finally, we spent an evening out with my cousins at a nice restaurant in a scenic area. Catching up on family events, and – surprisingly – no politics!<br />
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Besides that unusual flurry of social activity, I finished the “''sukka''” rebuild. Instead of a standalone structure we labor to build and tear down each year, I repurposed the old beams so they can be (removed and) attached to our house, leaning on our storage area. No need for “walls”, much more head-room, and five minutes to erect (or take down).<br />
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I also “finished” the front gate. That involved a lot of welding, sanding, and finally painting. It almost looks good if you don’t look too closely.<br />
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Various:<br />
* Apple’s shipped [https://httptoolkit.com/blog/apple-private-access-tokens-attestation/ attestation on the web]. It’s not going to end well.<br />
* Microsoft: the truth is [https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/microsoftthe-truth-even-worse-than-you-think-amit-yoran/ even worse] than you think. Well, not worse than ''I’ve'' been telling you, but still.<br />
* Electric cars, generally, [https://www.businessinsider.com/ev-charging-cost-versus-gas-car-truck-suv-2023-7 still cost more] to refill than do the gasoline variety.<br />
* US citizens [https://abc7chicago.com/visa-to-visit-europe-in-2024-us-citizens-new-requirements-for-traveling-americans-will-need/13542133/ will need a visa] to visit the EU starting next year.<br />
* Pluralistic on [https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/26/dictators-dilemma/ data-driven dictatorships].<br />
* And Colin Wright opines that [https://www.realityslaststand.com/p/neil-degrasse-tyson-should-stick Neil deGrasse Tyson] should stick to physics. I think he should retire to a desert island.<br />
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I made [https://8th-dev.com/forum/index.php/topic,2707.0.html another release of 8th] this week, mainly enhancements and fixes around Android support. It was a surprising amount of work to get “swipe” gestures properly supported.<br />
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Esther’s trying to rearrange storage in our kitchen, and we made a side-trip to IKEA before visiting with my cousins, thinking we might find something there. Unfortunately, traffic was so bad, we only had a half hour or so there — which, you might imagine, isn’t nearly enough time to check out the options. Also, we’d forgotten to measure things first… so we got napkins and other ''tchotchkes''.<br />
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The unfortunately long heat-wave broke, and we’ve returned to seasonal norms, B”H! This week we’ll continue with average-for-summer-in-the-ME temperatures, which is fine by me!<br />
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Our menu this ''shabbat'' contains:<br />
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''ḥalla'',<br />
chicken ''piccata'',<br />
rice,<br />
baked fish,<br />
zucchini ''pashtida'',<br />
mushroom ''pashtida'',<br />
various ''salatim'',<br />
and ''ḥawayaj''-ginger cookies.<br />
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Until next time,<br><br />
''shabbat shalom''!<br />
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