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Hi, again!

A busy week once again. This time I went for my “CT” scan on Sunday morning, to which Esther kindly drove me. It didn’t take very long before we were back home, but I won’t know the results until this coming week — I’ll let you know, don’t worry. In other medical news, I started taking “turmeric tablets” to try to alleviate my joint pain. There have been studies saying [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turmeric turmeric] (actually) works for this sort of thing, but you need to ingest a lot of (raw) turmeric, and it’s a hard spice to “get down” in quantities. So there’s these tablets which only contain turmeric’s active ingredient, along with pepper extract which activates the turmeric. I’ll give the experiment a month and let you know if I see any improvement.

Sarah filmed her first assignment, at the beach. It was a grueling assignment, that one. The actually tough part was coming home, which took her three hours though it shouldn’t have been much more than an hour. Bad traffic, you know? Other than that, she’s been very busy with school as she was last year; we don’t expect to see much of her excepting ''shabbat''…

Esther has been fulfilling her rôle as CEO of [https://aaron-tech.com/ Aaron High Tech, Ltd.] by taking care of lots of accounting work (with our CPA), and making sure we got our ''first payroll''. Very exciting! Now all we need to do is develop a few new clients and we’ll be “golden”.

This past week I noticed that my laptop was not working as it should. Specifically, it was “dropping packets”, meaning that internet connections were much slower than they should have been, and were disconnecting without good reason. Well, I eventually figured out that there was a good reason: the built-in wireless card in my laptop had gone bad. So I replaced it with a “plug-in” USB wireless adapter (looks like a USB memory stick), and now my wireless is better than it was. I know you don’t care, but it was an interesting bit of diagnosing I had to do to figure it out. Oddly enough, Esther’s laptop was also experiencing similar issues, and we’re trying to figure out if it’s the same problem or not.

And Esther’s been trying to get used to the iPad. Let me say that Apple just ain’t like other folks. The hardware is spectacular, but the user-interface is very different (and not intuitive). Or perhaps it just seems like that once you’ve been using the kinds of computers 95% of the world uses. Anyway, she and I have both been working with Apple products a bit. In her case, getting used to the way they work; in my case, trying to get [https://aaron-tech.com/8th.html 8th] compiling and running on OS/X.

This week, I started porting 8th to Windows and OS/X — or trying to at any rate — and the 32 vs 64-bit variants of same. There are some issues which still need to be worked out, but the progress is good. I also had to finish up a “financial model” for our consultant; actually, just plugging in “real” numbers where he had made random assumptions. The forecast is for a somewhat lean year in 2014, followed by much milk and honey. Let us hope the forecast is not too far off. Basically, I have to work a ''whole lot'', but I knew that going in.

What else?
* [http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/13/multiple-lines-of-evidence-suggest-global-cooling/ Global cooling]?
* [http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/174043 Kerry, the human wrecking-ball] has told US senators they should [http://www.jerusalemonline.com/news/world-news/around-the-globe/kerry-to-senators-stop-listening-to-israel-2310?utm_source=contactology&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Middaynewsletter stop listening to Israel] when it comes to Iran. “Senator Ketchup” should just stay home and leave us alone.
* Given the [http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2013/11/14/beyond-spin-networks-unload-obamacare-embarrassing-botched-resoundin incredible success story] of Obamacare so far, it’s astonishing that The One felt forced into [http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2013/11/14/obama-grants-one-year-reprieve-for-existing-health-insurance-plans/ giving existing health-plans a one-year reprieve].
* The Obamacare web site (sorry, “HealthCare.gov”) people are complaining about several dozen [http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/11/healthcare-gov-targeted-by-more-than-a-dozen-hacking-attempts/ hacking attempts against it]. Guess what, boyos? That’s what real web-sites have to deal with. Even my tiny site gets dozens of attacks ''a day''. And my site works better than theirs does…
* Not to worry: Ezekiel Emanuel [http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-sheffield/2013/11/14/obamacare-architect-ezekiel-emanuel-website-disaster-actually-fau blames Fox news] for the fiasco. Huh?
* And if you like Obamacare, [http://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/if-you-liked-obamacare-you-ll-love-obamacar-t12155.html#p169508 you’ll love the Obamacar]!

It looks like it’s [http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/11/open_season_on_jews.html open season on Jews] now in the US. Long past time for all my fellow Jews to return home, even if [http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/Liberman-sworn-in-as-Foreign-Minister-following-acquittal-on-fraud-charges-331385 Liberman has been reinstated] as Foreign Minister! The health-system here actually works (at less than half the cost of the USA’s version), we have [http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/11/the_technion_the_engine_of_a_young_nation.html some of the best schools] in the world, and beside’s all that… it’s our Land.

We’ve got some friends coming over for dinner this week. We’ll treat them to:
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zucchini soup,
barbecued lamb,
barbecued chicken,
chard-mushroom ''pashtida'',
onion red-pepper ''pashtida'',
stuffed tomatoes,
roasted potatoes,
beet salad,
cabbage salad,
fruit
and banana-chocolate-chip cake.

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

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Ron at 07:17, 22 November 2013

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