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Hi, again!<br />
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What a long week! The [http://www.timesofisrael.com/after-epic-storm-jerusalem-partly-returns-to-life/ unexpectedly strong snowstorm] brought Jerusalem to a stand-still. But the weather-induced shutdown did not affect only the capital; we on the periphery were also shut-in, because the entrance to Jerusalem from our side of the hills was closed. So a mere ''four days'' after the snowfall, we finally were able to get out of our fair town and to Jerusalem. It perplexes me: we can [http://www.jpost.com/International/Philippine-envoy-thanks-Israeli-government-NGOs-as-aid-and-assistance-continues-331543 send emergency relief] to the Philippines, but can’t seem to clear the roads in our capital city in a reasonable amount of time. Curious, isn’t it?<br />
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Sarah had been stuck at home for three weeks already, and finally had enough. She likes being in her room, don’t get me wrong; but she does like to leave the house once in a while. So after being stuck in the snow and being sick, and on ''ḥanukah'' vacation, she was quite ready to get back to school and get out and see friends.<br />
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Daniela and Jeremy don’t quite understand what the big deal is — after all, they get ''real'' snow where they are. And Daniela’s “turned the corner”, celebrating her quarter-century birthday. ''Mazal tov'' to her, and many more! We can’t believe our firstborn is ''that old''.<br />
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Our guests who came here for a “pilot trip” only to be stuck at our house almost the entire time, went back to the Olde Country this week. I hope they were able to get enough information to make an informed decision, and that they don’t think all Israeli homes are as freezing as ours was.<br />
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At work they were frantically trying to understand why the “new, improved” code was ten times slower than the old. So my boss drafted me into the effort, and in a couple hours I figured out what the problem was and fixed it. They had spent a week to no avail. Not that I’m trying to toot my own horn, or anything — but I often have no clue why people think the way they do, looking for exotic solutions when the culprit is something mundane.<br />
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Though to be truthful, I’m experiencing something like that myself as I spend many hours trying to uncover the source of some bizarre problems in [http://ronware.org/8th.html 8th]. I find that getting rid of “compiler optimization” helps in most cases, which doesn’t make me feel any better — it makes me feel there’s some underlying problem that the optimizations simply uncover. More on this next week, B”H.<br />
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And I haven’t posted any political stuff in a while, here in the blog; so here goes:<br />
* Europe’s [http://www.thecommentator.com/article/4476/europe_s_love_hate_relationship_with_israel love-hate relationship with Israel]<br />
* Obama’s [http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/12/obamas_fall_from_grace.html fall from grace]<br />
* [http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/12/white-washing_mandelas_memory.html Saint Mandela]<br />
* Kerry’s a prime candidate for [http://dailycaller.com/2013/12/16/did-you-know-north-korea-has-nuclear-weapons-then-youre-one-up-on-john-kerry/ Mr. Potato-head]. Or is that “potatoe”?<br />
* The snow makes the Knesset [http://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Knesset-committee-cancels-discussions-due-to-Jerusalem-weather-335127 cancel discussions]. We need more snow-storms!<br />
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Ah well, I need to get started cleaning the house, which managed to get very dirty with the mud being tracked in. So excuse me until next week, won’t you?<br />
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It’ll be a very quiet house this week, just the three of us. We’ll have:<br />
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cauliflower soup,<br />
''schnitzel'' (turkey and veggie),<br />
steamed artichokes,<br />
corn salad,<br />
lentil salad,<br />
roasted beets,<br />
sweet-savory ''ful'' (fava-beans),<br />
veggie chili,<br />
rice<br />
and sorbet.<br />
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Until next week,<br><br />
''shabbat shalom''!<br />
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