Ron at 05:16, 14 February 2025

2025-02-14T05:16:27Z

Ron: Created page with "{{blog}} {{comment|Feb 7th}} We’ve recovered from our bouts of “flu” or whatever; however, Jeremy’s battling the flu. Fortunately, Naomi’s mostly fine and Daniela a..."

2025-02-07T05:29:14Z

Created page with "{{blog}} {{comment|Feb 7th}} We’ve recovered from our bouts of “flu” or whatever; however, Jeremy’s battling the flu. Fortunately, Naomi’s mostly fine and Daniela a..."

New page

{{blog}} {{comment|Feb 7th}}

We’ve recovered from our bouts of “flu” or whatever; however, Jeremy’s battling the flu. Fortunately, Naomi’s mostly fine and Daniela and the others seem to have dodged that bullet, B”H!

Once again, we ended ''shabbat'' to news that [https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-840171 three more hostages] had been released. They looked more ragged than previous released hostages; and Yarden Bibas has yet to learn for certain the fate of his wife and children, who were also abducted on 07Oct23. We’re hoping against all odds for good news, but if I’m being completely honest, I don’t think there’s good news to be had.

Then we heard Trump’s plan for Gaza, and I couldn’t stop laughing my ass off at the pearl-clutching from pretty much everywhere (except Israel). To be quite honest, his plan is far more humane than my “turn Gaza into a parking-lot” plan.

Anyway, in other, less contentious news: we’ve had a “weak light” in our bathroom, for years. It’s become less and less bright over the years, and this week it finally gave up the ghost. So rather than use candles, we went to a lighting store (right next to the “Pyup” liquor store, in our town) and got a new LED fixture for a quite reasonable price. Then I had to install it, which wasn’t much fun but (as usual) I got it done.

Now the bathroom is ''far too bright'', and we can see things humans weren’t really meant to see.

Various and sundry:
* Jerry Seinfeld: [https://www.jpost.com/j-spot/article-839901 Israel and Antisemitism].
* Smotrich on [https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-840342 the Hareidi draft].
* Mallen: Trump [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eApPWyXYusI shreds US “soft power”].
* But is that really [https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-840718 such a bad thing]?
* My friend opens [https://penamacorrespondent.blog/and-the-loser-is/ Pandora’s box]; (or is it “Pandor’s box”?)

I made a bug fix [https://8th-dev.com/forum/index.php?topic=2953.0 release of 8th] this week, a couple weeks earlier than I had planned, because two of the issues my users found were somewhat significant. I also made progress repurposing an old computer monitor; more on that next week, I think.

The weather was fine until Wed afternoon, when it turned very stormy with strong winds and rain. Thu still stormy and rainy and cold. But my roof repairs have held so far, thank you very much!

It’ll be cold and maybe moist for ''shabbat''; we’ll keep ourselves and our guests warm with:
 
homemade ''ḥallah'',
chicken-vegetable soup,
roast chicken,
spicy wings,
roast potatoes,
various ''salatim'',
and brownies.
 

Until next time, 
''shabbat shalom''! 

<hr>
To subscribe to this blog via email, [mailto:ron@ronware.org?subject=Blog%20subscribe click here]; or, alternatively, [mailto:ron@ronware.org?subject=Blog%20unsubscribe unsubscribe].

{{nav|Blog|Blog|Blog/January 2025/Jan 31st|Jan 31st||}}

@@ Line 39: / Line 39: @@
 To subscribe to this blog via email, [mailto:ron@ronware.org?subject=Blog%20subscribe click here]; or, alternatively, [mailto:ron@ronware.org?subject=Blog%20unsubscribe unsubscribe].
-{{nav|Blog|Blog|Blog/January 2025/Jan 31st|Jan 31st||}}
+{{nav|Blog|Blog|Blog/January 2025/Jan 31st|Jan 31st|Blog/February 2025/Feb 14th|Feb 14th}}
 <!-- vim: set ic nocin tw=0 complete=.,w,b,kspell spelllang=en: -->

Blog/February 2025/Feb 7th - Revision history

Ron at 05:16, 14 February 2025

Ron: Created page with "{{blog}} {{comment|Feb 7th}} We’ve recovered from our bouts of “flu” or whatever; however, Jeremy’s battling the flu. Fortunately, Naomi’s mostly fine and Daniela a..."