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July 13th

This week was our first “normal” one in quite some time. So there’s not a lot to report, thankfully.

Esther’s boss and co-workers were extremely relieved to have her return to the office. Apparently, things “get done” when she’s there, and not so much, otherwise. So she was very busy working on a month-plus backlog. She deserves a raise!

Sarah started a studio-photography course, which will run for about three months. At the least, she’ll hone skills she wants to have to pursue her ultimate goal (no, I won’t tell you what that is just yet).

I had a successful week, bringing my active client’s project to a good conclusion. Now I’m in the interstices between paid projects: this client is having internal discussions how to proceed, while another one is waiting for funding. A third one made unreasonable demands of my time, so they’ve been dropped.

All of which is to the benefit of 8th: I made very substantial progress this week, towards the next version. Working on supporting “Wear OS”, which is what Android’s “wearable devices OS” is called (yes, it’s basically the same as Android, but not exactly). Fixed a number of bugs found by my diligent users, and added some things. All good.

Esther and I made an effort to get the house more organized. Once Mom’s shipment arrived, it was apparent that the house is much smaller than Mom had thought (my warnings to the contrary notwithstanding). So my Better Half and I rearranged a number of things and got a bit more room. It’s like one of those Chinese puzzles.

In other news:

• One of the better headlines: US puts fierce squeeze on breastfeeding…
• The history of “gender theory”
• Amazingly, in an entire article entitled Can the Middle East solve its water problem?, the world-class technological strides made by Israel are not mentioned (though it shows up in the graphs). Curious…
• An interesting (and civil) talk between a famous atheist and an orthodox Jew
• The knife police are coming (in Britain).
• The Japanese have apparently found a near infinite trove of “rare-earth elements”. China is concerned: it’s one of the few things they have a near-monopoly on. “Rare-earths” are used in a lot of high-tech devices, so yeah

Guests this week include my nephew and his wife and child. All of us will enjoy:
homemade ḥalla, some kind of meat, a soup?, various salatim, and some pastries.

Until next time,
shabbat shalom!

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