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Hi, again!

What a week! We started it on vacation in the north of Israel near {{wiki|Tiberias}}. The USA celebrated its independence day, though I had to be reminded of it. Work was a pressure-cooker all week. Went to hear the mayor and a cabinet minister. Esther's brother and his family came all the way from Argentina to stay with us for a couple weeks.

So our vacation started on Thursday, when we drove up to the north by means of the coastal route. We stopped at the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herzliya Herzliya] boat harbor, and enjoyed a view of how the "beautiful people" live while we had a lunch. Then we continued northward along the coast, heading north of Haifa to visit with a friend of mine (from the army, almost thirty years ago). She lives in a small town in the lower Galilee, just east of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acre,_Israel Akko]. From there we went to our final destination, the hotel at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavi Kibbutz Lavi], just ten minutes from Tiberias.

We had visited that kibbutz a while back on a ''shiva'' call, and were impressed by the beauty of the area and also by the hotel there. So we decided to "go fancy" for our 25th anniversary, and stay at a nice hotel for a few days. It was really nice, relaxing and pleasant. On Friday our girls joined us and we spent a quiet ''shabbat'' together.

During the week, there was an evening event here in Maale Adummim, for the English-speaking community. The mayor (Benny Kashriel) gave the "Maale Adummim" award to a member of the Russian community here (a man who is the head of the Russian synagogue not far from us, who has done a lot of good work here). Then we heard [http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/2000_2009/2003/2/Yuli+Edelstein.htm Yuli Edelstein] speak. I was surprised by how well he spoke (in almost unaccented English), and was further surprised that I agreed with much of what he said. It made for a very interesting evening, all told (though of course I didn't want to go at first).

And finally, Esther's brother Sergio and his family came late on Wednesday evening, and will be staying with us for a couple weeks. I haven't seen them in quite a few years, so it is nice to get back in touch and visit. It's also ... interesting ... to have little kids in the house again. I think I'd forgotten just how energetic kids can be!

What else? Not going to talk about work, except to say how difficult it was to go back to work after a glorious two days off! Outside of work, I was able to make a new release of [http://dev.ronware.org/p/reva Reva Forth], my first in over half a year!

Various and sundry:
* Microsoft Windows users need to completely reinstall if they are infected with [http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9217953/Rootkit_infection_requires_Windows_reinstall_says_Microsoft this new rootkit]
* Facebook [http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/75598 removes data]
* An interesting article written by a non-technical person switching away from Windows. [http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2011/06/hope-and-change-inside-my-computer.html Hope and Change (inside my computer)], [http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2011/06/hope-and-change-inside-my-computer-part.html part II] and [http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2011/07/hope-and-change-inside-my-computer-part.html part III]
* And finally, even I'm not this extreme: the Swiss form an [http://www.cio.com.au/article/392397/ anti-Powerpoint political party]!

As I mentioned, we've got a full house this week, B"H! The menu includes: ''ḥallah'', ''ḥumous'', eggplant, Israeli salad, Moroccan carrot salad, vegetable soup, barbecued lamb, barbecued ''pargiyot'', potato salad, roasted vegetables, beets, ''schnitzel'', chocolate brownies.

Until next week,<br>
shabbat shalom!

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 * Facebook [http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/75598 removes data]

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