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Are you ready for pesaḥ (Passover) yet? We’ve been ready pretty much since Tuesday, after we finished getting the kitchen prepared. That made the week seem a lot longer than usual, as we anticipated the final preparations for the holiday.
Those remaining are: getting the veggies ready, making the matza, making ice-cream, and a few more things. Not too onerous.
We had been prepared for a full house, but unfortunately some of those we’d invited became ill or otherwise disabled, so the “crowd” will be just us and the faithful Casden clan. We might have enough food for the rest of the week, without cooking…
Things about which you may or may not care:
- Bill Nye, the sellout guy, shilling for one of the biggest plastics polluters on the planet.
- The latest “Star Trek”, “Picard”, has their crew beating up ICE agents and freeing illegal immigrants. I don’t remember ST being that unbearably heavy-handed; it’s very off-putting.
- Baltimore Symphony’s conductor has updated Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, replacing the text of Schiller’s “Ode to Joy” with “rap” doggerel. I just can’t, anymore.
- Apple’s “AirTags” are being used for stalking more and more. Some of us remember having warned about this sort of thing.
- My captive physicist discusses whether or not nuclear energy is “green”.
- Solana on the warpath: “Freedom is for Nazis”.
- Given the current state of the world, Glenn Beck discusses ways to prepare for incipient food shortages around the world. Some food for thought (yes: pun, as always, intended).
We both worked in between preparations, this week. I managed to find and fix a (somewhat serious) bug in 8th, to which I was alerted by incorrect behavior in the code I was writing for a client. Esther fielded calls from anxious coworkers and clients, and both of us are looking forward to the (partial, for us) rest of the upcoming holiday.
The weather has been wonderful this week: on the cool side but not cold (at night). The forecast for shabbat is more of the same, with temperatures rising dramatically on Sunday/Monday and then receding back to seasonal norms, with the possibility of cool rain on Wednesday.
It’s not only shabbat, it’s also pesaḥ! We’ll have:
home-made soft matza as well as hand-made commercial matza;
brisket slowly-braised in apple juice, onions, and carrots;
herbed baked chicken;
huevos haminados;
ḥaroset two ways: Askenazi style, and Sephardi style;
“bitter herbs”;
home-made horseradish;
roasted carrots and beets,
potato kugel,
keftes de prasa,
bamia in tomato sauce,
tortilla de espinacas,
lots of (good) wine;
Barbara’s pesadich brownies;
and home-made sorbet and ice-cream.
Until next time,
shabbat shalom and ḥag pesaḥ kasher wesameaḥ!
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