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'''January 6th'''

It was “back to work” for Esther this week, after a relaxing two-week vacation. She was enjoying her well-deserved break and not really looking forward to its end. But they like her at work, so she returned.

She was uplifted somewhat by the exchange of our dying leased car for a shiny new one. This one is a metallic-black [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault_Clio Renault Clio] (the previous was a Renault Fluence). It’s a lot smaller and more fuel–efficient (which is very good), and it seems zippier than the other (not necessarily good, but Esther likes that). May she enjoy it in good health!

We met up this week with friends of ours from the Olde Country, who we haven’t seen since making ''aliyah'' (almost) ten years ago. Actually, I saw them when I went back to visit a while back, but Esther hadn’t seen them since 2007. We had a nice long lunch with them, and got caught up with each other.

Sarah had a busy week as well, getting her sales-woman groove on. She also had an interview for an occasional job doing video editing, and the interviewer seemed to be reasonably happy — so she may have a second job soon. Welcome to Israel!

I managed to get my main client’s system put back together and working nicely. It was a fairly large bit of digital-surgery I had to perform, but the patient is doing well. I’ve also been working on the next release of 8th, and fielding questions from various customers. We just completed an ‘update cycle’ for our customers, and so far have about 70% retention — which is really excellent for a new product. So all’s good!

<tt><techie stuff></tt><br>
Dear techie friends, I have a SQL question (non-techies, feel free to skip this paragraph and the next one): I’m working on solving a ‘fair queueing’ problem. I’ve got an in-memory database (SQLite) which has a table of “clients” and a table of “files”. Each file may appear on multiple clients. I want to distribute jobs to the clients based on (1) the availability of files to them and (2) on their general availability. This isn’t such a tough problem to solve, and I did so by reading the information from the SQL database into C++ structures and doing things the old-fashioned way. But it irks me to copy information around if I don’t have to.

My question is: “how would you accomplish the distribution using SQL queries?”. I know I could simply use multiple SELECT/INSERT statements, with triggers on the INSERT to update a weight value for each client. Since I would have to invoke the SQL from my C++ code, I’m not sure that would be better than just doing it all in C++. It might, however, be easier to code and debug. I’m open to suggestions…
<br><tt></techie stuff></tt>

About stuff:
* US is [http://blog.erratasec.com/2017/01/dear-obama-from-infosec.html doubling-down on agitprop] against the Russians.
* What’s up with all the [http://www.nationalreview.com/article/443523/anti-israel-obama-administration-follows-world-lead-middle-east-politics anti-Israel sentiment]?
* You know you want to read [http://www.miamiherald.com/living/liv-columns-blogs/dave-barry/article123321019.html Dave Barry’s year in review]!

This ''shabbat'' is my birthday on the Gregorian calendar (you have until the 2nd of Shevat [Jan 29th] for my Hebrew birthday — I [https://www.paypal.me/RonAaron accept cash donations] until then), and we’ll be joined by RivQua. On the menu:
<br>
homemade ''ḥalla'',
chicken ''schnitzel'',
oven-fried potatoes,
stuffed eggplant,
veggie chili,
noodles,
various [http://www.joyofkosher.com/recipes/collection/recipe-terms-salatim/ ''salatim''],
and Esther’s famous chocolate birthday cake. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iz-8CSa9xj8 My preciousssss]!

Until next time,<br>
''shabbat shalom''!

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 * The quasi-news site “Buzzfeed” this week [http://www.nationalreview.com/article/443769/shame-buzzfeed-journalistic-malpractice-undermines-faith-democracy-news-media published a long, unsubstantiated report] which purports to show that Trump is compromised by Russia.  You certainly know that by now, it’s been in every news outlet for days.  I would be immensely surprised if Trump didn’t sue them into oblivion for libel.
 * Sure, Trump’s notoriously [http://edition.cnn.com/2016/12/05/politics/axelrod-trump-thin-skinned-cnntv/ thin skinned], and he’s also an [https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/donald-trumps-raging-egomania/2016/09/08/252a4990-75f6-11e6-be4f-3f42f2e5a49e_story.html?utm_term=.53f2ccd97402 egomaniac].  But at least he’s on our side!  Isn’t he?
-* Of course, the outgoing president has [http://www.nationalreview.com/article/443751/obama-farewell-address-self-loving more than his fair share of egomania].  Not to mention that he’s [https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2016/01/20/why-its-correct-to-label-the-obama-administration-anti-israel/?utm_term=.83e840c8837e definitely not on our side].
+* Of course, the outgoing president has [http://www.nationalreview.com/article/443751/obama-farewell-address-self-loving more than his fair share of egomania].
 * And in South America, a [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/12/el-salvador-homicide-rate-murder-two-years day without murder] is like a day without sunshine!
 * Finally, in the ongoing investigation into possible malfeasance by Netanyahu and his close associates, [http://www.timesofisrael.com/prime-ministers-wife-questioned-by-police-as-probes-expand/ Sara Netanyahu was questioned by police, as probes expand].  Heavens!  I can’t believe the Israel Police use [http://kindofsketchy.com/1/post/2015/11/alien-probes.html expanding probes]!  Isn’t that against the Geneva Convention?

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 * The quasi-news site “Buzzfeed” this week [http://www.nationalreview.com/article/443769/shame-buzzfeed-journalistic-malpractice-undermines-faith-democracy-news-media published a long, unsubstantiated report] which purports to show that Trump is compromised by Russia.  You certainly know that by now, it’s been in every news outlet for days.  I would be immensely surprised if Trump didn’t sue them into oblivion for libel.
 * Sure, Trump’s notoriously [http://edition.cnn.com/2016/12/05/politics/axelrod-trump-thin-skinned-cnntv/ thin skinned], and he’s also an [https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/donald-trumps-raging-egomania/2016/09/08/252a4990-75f6-11e6-be4f-3f42f2e5a49e_story.html?utm_term=.53f2ccd97402 egomaniac].  But at least he’s on our side!  Isn’t he?
-* Of course, the outgoing president has [http://www.nationalreview.com/article/443751/obama-farewell-address-self-loving more than his fair share of egomania].
+* Of course, the outgoing president has [http://www.nationalreview.com/article/443751/obama-farewell-address-self-loving more than his fair share of egomania].  Not to mention that he’s [https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2016/01/20/why-its-correct-to-label-the-obama-administration-anti-israel/?utm_term=.83e840c8837e definitely not on our side].
 * And in South America, a [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/12/el-salvador-homicide-rate-murder-two-years day without murder] is like a day without sunshine!
 * Finally, in the ongoing investigation into possible malfeasance by Netanyahu and his close associates, [http://www.timesofisrael.com/prime-ministers-wife-questioned-by-police-as-probes-expand/ Sara Netanyahu was questioned by police, as probes expand].  Heavens!  I can’t believe the Israel Police use [http://kindofsketchy.com/1/post/2015/11/alien-probes.html expanding probes]!  Isn’t that against the Geneva Convention?

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-'''January 13th'''
+'''January 6th'''
-This was a pretty busy week in the Aaron household. We started with the news that during ''shabbat'', Ariele and Chaim became parents to a bouncing baby boy — ''mazal tov''!  The baby made his appearance at 23:55, missing my (Gregorian) birthday by just five minutes!  He weighed in at 2.89 kg (6.36 lbs), and mother and baby (and father) are doing well, B”H!
+It was “back to work” for Esther this week, after a relaxing two-week vacation.  She was enjoying her well-deserved break and not really looking forward to its end.  But they like her at work, so she returned.
-Since the baby was born on ''shabbat'', the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brit_milah ''brit-milah''] (circumcision) will also be done on ''shabbat''.  For those of you who may be confused by that, thinking that it would be forbidden to perform a minor non-life-threatening surgery on ''shabbat'', you’re perfectly correct.  However, in the ''specific'' case of ''brit-milah'', the Torah commands it be performed ''on the eighth-day'', so unless there is a medical reason to prevent it, a ''brit-milah'' is performed on shabbat if that’s the eighth day.
+She was uplifted somewhat by the exchange of our dying leased car for a shiny new one.  This one is a metallic-black [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault_Clio Renault Clio] (the previous was a Renault Fluence).  It’s a lot smaller and more fuel–efficient (which is very good), and it seems zippier than the other (not necessarily good, but Esther likes that).  May she enjoy it in good health!
-One evening we met up with our ''mehutanim'' (e.g. the parents of our son-in-law Jeremy) at a nice Jerusalem restaurant.  We had a very pleasant visit and meal, and hope they’ll come back soon!
+We met up this week with friends of ours from the Olde Country, who we haven’t seen since making ''aliyah'' (almost) ten years ago.  Actually, I saw them when I went back to visit a while back, but Esther hadn’t seen them since 2007.  We had a nice long lunch with them, and got caught up with each other.
-Another evening, Esther took me out on a date for my birthday.  We went to see a play: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Curious_Incident_of_the_Dog_in_the_Night-Time The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time] at our local [https://www.facebook.com/CultureMaaleAdomim/ “cultural center”] here in the holy city of Ma’ale Adummim.  We enjoyed a sushi dinner beforehand, and then went to the play.  I can’t remember the last time I went to a play, but I thoroughly enjoyed this one.  In particular, I was fascinated by the stage-work and how the set was used.  Well worth the entry fee, I think.
+Sarah had a busy week as well, getting her sales-woman groove on.  She also had an interview for an occasional job doing video editing, and the interviewer seemed to be reasonably happy — so she may have a second job soon.  Welcome to Israel!
-In good news: Sarah interviewed with a local video production company and after two interview sessions, was accepted to take on “on demand” jobs for them.  She’ll get to work on her own time and make extra money while gaining practical experience.  Go, Sarah!
+I managed to get my main client’s system put back together and working nicely.  It was a fairly large bit of digital-surgery I had to perform, but the patient is doing well.  I’ve also been working on the next release of 8th, and fielding questions from various customers.  We just completed an ‘update cycle’ for our customers, and so far have about 70% retention — which is really excellent for a new product.  So all’s good!
-Things of note:
+<tt><techie stuff></tt><br>
-* The quasi-news site “Buzzfeed” this week [http://www.nationalreview.com/article/443769/shame-buzzfeed-journalistic-malpractice-undermines-faith-democracy-news-media published a long, unsubstantiated report] which purports to show that Trump is compromised by Russia.  You certainly know that by now, it’s been in every news outlet for days.  I would be immensely surprised if Trump didn’t sue them into oblivion for libel.
+Dear techie friends, I have a SQL question (non-techies, feel free to skip this paragraph and the next one):  I’m working on solving a ‘fair queueing’ problem.  I’ve got an in-memory database (SQLite) which has a table of “clients” and a table of “files”.  Each file may appear on multiple clients.  I want to distribute jobs to the clients based on (1) the availability of files to them and (2) on their general availability.  This isn’t such a tough problem to solve, and I did so by reading the information from the SQL database into C++ structures and doing things the old-fashioned way.  But it irks me to copy information around if I don’t have to.
-So for those of you who don’t know, my ''birthday mo’ed'' lasts until Jan 29th (or 2 Shevat).  My [https://www.paypal.me/RonAaron collection plate] is still available, for those of you who wish to demonstrate your generosity!
+My question is: “how would you accomplish the distribution using SQL queries?”. I know I could simply use multiple SELECT/INSERT statements, with triggers on the INSERT to update a weight value for each client.  Since I would have to invoke the SQL from my C++ code, I’m not sure that would be better than just doing it all in C++.  It might, however, be easier to code and debug.  I’m open to suggestions…
-I’ve been too busy with paying work to make a lot of progress towards the next 8th release.  My users are starting to get restless.  I’ll try to make the release this coming week, B”H. Big changes! Very good stuff! (channeling my inner Trump)
+About stuff:
-As a result of the upcoming ''brit-milah'', Esther and I will be spending ''shabbat'' in Jerusalem. Sarah will be holding down the Aaron fort in our stead, since she has to work on Friday until fairly late.  She’s been invited out, but at home she’ll have:
 <br>
 homemade ''ḥalla'',
-fried tofu,
+chicken ''schnitzel'',
-roasted potatoes,
+oven-fried potatoes,
-green salad,
+stuffed eggplant,
 various [http://www.joyofkosher.com/recipes/collection/recipe-terms-salatim/ ''salatim''],
-and fruit.
+and Esther’s famous chocolate birthday cake.  [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iz-8CSa9xj8 My preciousssss]!
 Until next time,<br>
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