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May 22nd (See this week's devar torah)
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This has been a very good week. The best thing is that Daniela came back (today!) from New York and will be here for the summer. We'll update you next week about her year, after she's had a chance to decompress a bit. Then yesterday, my product finally became "live" -- that is, people can now download and install it. So that's a weight off me and makes my shabbat that much more restful. And then today is "Yom Yerushalayim" - the anniversary of the liberation and unification of Jerusalem in 1967. Without the events of Yom Yerushalayim, we wouldn't be able to live where we do.

We have rented a car for a month, to make it easier to "do things" while Daniela is here. We'll see how that goes. It may be we end up leasing a car for a longer period, if we can justify the expense. Now that gas is over 6 sheqels a liter, we need to be more careful about how we spend our funds.

In techie news: I am making progress towards a Mac version of my Reva Forth programming language. This has involved changing the assembler I'm using for the 'core', and which had the benefit of pointing out some bugs I wasn't aware of before. I hope to have the "new version" working within a week or so. Not that you care ...

Israel is notorious for bad signs. People who failed the bagrut in English seem to be the only ones writing English signs. My favorite so far is the one inside Egged buses, which states: "Smoking is prohibited. Breaking this law leads to fin." -- a nice, ironic multilingual message. But this week there was an ad in the local paper, from the Mayor's office, directed at the English speaking population: "We hope to include all english speakers in our invitation malling.please give ypur cantact details to xxxx un the mayorws office" [sic]. "...on the anglo furom committte.after reciving the invitation. Please let us know if you gope to attend" [sic semper stupidus]. This is the very worst one I've seen so far, but no matter how bad something is, someone can do worse.

We have been buying from our butcher for almost two years -- he's been mentioned in these pages several times. Last week a notice was published in a kashrut paper, stating that he is not in fact under any hashgacha, which makes it impossible for us to use him. So we found a different butcher shop (in the Bucharian shuq), which has not only a much better selection, but is cleaner, cheaper and has the hechsherim clearly displayed on all the products. Caveat emptor -- especially regarding butchers!

That's it for now -- I've got to clean the house and get ready for a relaxing "family shabbat". So until next week,

Shabbat shalom!

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