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Ron at 10:14, 30 November 2007

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Ron at 11:36, 2 November 2007

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Ron at 11:11, 2 November 2007

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Ron at 11:08, 2 November 2007

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Ron at 18:31, 1 November 2007

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Ron at 09:41, 1 November 2007

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Ron at 18:32, 31 October 2007

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Ron: New page: * started work * public urination * you can do anything in Israel

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New page: * started work * public urination * you can do anything in Israel

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* started work
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 Shalom everyone:
-This past Sunday I started work.  It's amazing how much I had become used to staying relatively idle at home!  The work week is a typical Israeli Sunday-Thursday.  The company is really small, which I like a lot (though part of my job is to help make it a bigger company).  One of the "perks" is a car, so I can get to work and back without having to try to match the bus schedule... which is, I think, exactly the reason they give such a benefit.
+This past Sunday I started work.  It's amazing how much I had become used to staying relatively idle at home!  The work week is a typical Israeli Sunday-Thursday.  The company is really small, which I like a lot (though part of my job is to help make it a bigger company).  One of the "perks" is a car, so I can get to work and back without having to try to match the bus schedule... which is, I think, exactly the reason they give such a benefit.  Now, if traffic is cooperative, I can get to work in 20 minutes, though in the morning the traffic is not usually cooperative and it has taken as long as 45 minutes for me to get there.
 Fun fact: you can "get tanked" while driving here.  That's right, it's not so unusual to tell your boss "I would have been earlier, but there was a tank in front of me...", and he'll accept it as a real excuse.  Happened to me twice so far (usually on the way back from work, though).
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 One very cool thing is that there is a real shul at work.  So every day people take 15 minutes out of their work schedule, and come pray the ''minchah'' (afternoon) prayer.
-Fun fact: you can do ''anything'' in Israel.  Literally.  Don't have enough room to parallel park?  Just pull in perpendicular!  Don't like the sidewalk?  Walk in the street!  Do you feel that the supermarket charges too much for those apples?  Bargain with them!  I've taken "we're in Israel, I can do whatever I like" as my personal motto now...
+Fun fact: you can do ''anything'' in Israel.  Literally.  Don't have enough room to parallel park?  Just pull in perpendicular!  Don't like the sidewalk?  Walk in the street!  Do you feel that the supermarket charges too much for those apples?  Bargain with them!  Do you have an opinion?  Share it vociferously with anyone who passes by. I've taken "we're in Israel, I can do whatever I like" as my personal motto now...
 And as an example of that, the other day my wife and daughter were in the park close to our house.  There were other people about, among them a couple women with kids.  Suddenly one of them walks over to the bushes and executes a squatting maneuver which those of you who like the Great Outdoors will understand.  But this was in the middle of a public park, in the city.  Hey, it's Israel - you can do ''anything''!

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+This past Sunday I started work.  It's amazing how much I had become used to staying relatively idle at home!  The work week is a typical Israeli Sunday-Thursday.  The company is really small, which I like a lot (though part of my job is to help make it a bigger company).  One of the "perks" is a car, so I can get to work and back without having to try to match the bus schedule... which is, I think, exactly the reason they give such a benefit.
-* getting tanked
-* you know you're old, or lifney seivah taqum
+Now, if traffic is cooperative, I can get to work in 20 minutes, though in the morning the traffic is not usually cooperative and it has taken as long as 45 minutes for me to get there.

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