Ron at 04:41, 25 July 2025

2025-07-25T04:41:49Z

Ron: Created page with "{{blog}} {{comment|July 18th}} My office-cleaning spree continued this week. I’m now nearly 40% done! I’ve found ''new'' places to stash things, so that’s a plus; and t..."

2025-07-18T04:00:10Z

Created page with "{{blog}} {{comment|July 18th}} My office-cleaning spree continued this week. I’m now nearly 40% done! I’ve found ''new'' places to stash things, so that’s a plus; and t..."

New page

{{blog}} {{comment|July 18th}}

My office-cleaning spree continued this week. I’m now nearly 40% done! I’ve found ''new'' places to stash things, so that’s a plus; and there’s more room in which to move. Now, if I could only find the things I relocated…

Esther’s iPad died, and since fixing it would be almost as expensive as replacing it, we’ve ordered a replacement. In the meantime, she’s suffering from iPad-withdrawal syndrome. Most unpleasant!

The [https://mechon-mamre.org/shiurim.htm Rambam ''shiurim''] proceed apace, and I’m getting better at managing the Zoom feed and uploading the subsequent videos to YouTube. Yay, me. Now I need to find a way to be less nervous before said sessions, and more fluid in presentation.

And, I fixed a bug in “8th” which has been bugging me for quite a while.

We finally went to the nursery and got fresh vegetation. So I’m replacing old growth and planting new bits. I’m also replacing the irrigation lines, which I’d planned on doing a couple weeks back but… well, you know.

A quibble: people using the word “''mitsvah''” to mean “good deed” (when it actually means “commandment”). For instance: “helping protect the Druze in Syria is a ''mitsvah''”. No, no it isn’t, though it’s a “good deed” and possibly one for which we will reap benefits in future (or, perhaps, [https://thegrandstrategy.substack.com/p/israels-damascus-airstrikes-my-first the opposite]).

What is going on?
* Did you know about the Dutch [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Khr7Dg7_X2w plan to colonise southern Australia]?
* Is a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Yr_m2fbpEo three sided coin] possible?
* Elmo goes on an [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHC2MPj2zg0 antisemitic rant on Twitter]. Really.
* Uri Geller (remember him?) claims that Israel used a [https://www.jpost.com/omg/article-861282 secret group of military psychics] (and AI) to attack Iran.
* The Gaza war [https://urikurlianchik.substack.com/p/the-gaza-war-is-not-wwii is not WWII].
* And [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aCVHUn3gJU violence spreads in Syria], and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WCqABYWktg more].

I cannot fathom why anyone thought Jolani was actually a peaceful, Western-leaning, modern leader who eschewed [https://www.straitstimes.com/world/middle-east/who-is-al-jolani-the-syrian-rebel-who-ended-assads-rule his al-Qaeda past]. Since taking power, his forces have [https://www.npr.org/2025/03/09/nx-s1-5322458/syria-revenge-killings-alawites-latakia massacred Alawites] and murdered [https://www.timesofisrael.com/37-said-killed-in-deadly-clashes-in-predominantly-druze-city-in-southern-syrian/ Christians and Druze]. Now the IDF has stepped in to prevent further atrocities, since the entire world has remained silent. And, of course, once we got involved, “the world” started bitching and moaning. So predictable.

Since I’m not a prophet, I cannot say what our involvement in SY will ultimately lead to; however, I’m pleased that at least we are upholding the promises we made to our own Druze citizens. And “the world” can get stuffed.

It looks like this ''shabbat'' will be relatively pleasant, and that next week will bring a long heat-wave. Well, we’ll take it one day at a time!

This ''shabbat'', we plan on enjoying:
 
homemade ''ḥalla'',
baked chicken,
[https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/13392/classic-vichyssoise/ ''vichyssoise''] ''sans crème'',
roasted vegetables,
various ''salatim'',
and a stunning variety of summer fruits.
 

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/July 2025/Jul 11th|Jul 11th||}}

@@ Line 43: / Line 43: @@
 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/July 2025/Jul 11th|Jul 11th||}}
+{{nav|Blog|Blog|Blog/July 2025/Jul 11th|Jul 11th|Blog/July 2025/Jul 25th|Jul 25th}}
 <!-- vim: set ic nocin tw=0 complete=.,w,b,kspell spelllang=en: -->

Blog/July 2025/Jul 18th - Revision history

Ron at 04:41, 25 July 2025

Ron: Created page with "{{blog}} {{comment|July 18th}} My office-cleaning spree continued this week. I’m now nearly 40% done! I’ve found ''new'' places to stash things, so that’s a plus; and t..."