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We were normally busy this week. Esther was doing her accounting thing. I was doing my programming thing. My mom was doing her solitaire thing. No excitement to speak of over here.
The only real excitement of the week was that Naomi said her first word, “mama!”, while putting her arms up towards Daniela. I think my daughter is now even more in love with her daughter, if that’s possible. In the meantime, Gabriel has become a super crawler. To recap: the girl can speak but doesn’t crawl, the boy can crawl but doesn’t speak. Yet.
Here in the Land, there is so much going on concerning the upcoming (April) elections, that it’s truly difficult to keep track. Parties are merging or making agreements to run as a “technical block”. New parties are registering to run. Old parties are fading away. I honestly don’t know what the electoral landscape will look like when the deadline has been reached.
There were two big news items of the week regarding elections. First is that the upstart Gantz (a former Chief of Staff, teaming up with two other former COS’s) has reached an agreement with the “Yesh Atid” party to run together as the new “Blue and White” party. This will be a “Center-Left” party, and current polls show it getting more seats than Netanyahu’s Likud party. Of course, that’s only part of the story, as you probably know. It won’t help them that Gantz recently made disparaging comments about immigrants.
The second big news item is that the “Jewish Home” party, which lost considerable ground once Bennett and Shaked split off to form their own “New Right” party, reached a “technical bloc” agreement with the “Jewish Power” party. That move may get them into the Knesset (which they might have been unable to do before), but it’s also alienating a large section of their base which isn’t interested in being associated, even “technically”, with a Kahanist party.
Never a dull moment, when discussing Israeli elections!
Dumb, dumb-dumb, dumb:
- Yet another BDS fail.
- Livni, Livni! So sad, too bad; it was time for you to go.
- This father should have hired a clown instead of being one himself.
- A massive hoax exposing “Social Justice” in academia.
- And this fool is Jussie too dumb to pull off a hoax. For real.
I did see a knee-specialist this week. He gave me a thorough physical exam and reviewed the MRI (which he said simply confirmed what the physical exam showed him). The upshot is, he gave me two options: first, I could simply do PT and wait six months and recheck the knee. But since the meniscus isn’t going to heal in the location where it’s torn, he recommended the second option: arthroscopic surgery to trim out the broken bits of the meniscus.
I’m awaiting feedback from his secretary to discuss details so I can decide whether to do the surgery or not. Fun times!
The weather’s been nice, although the forecast called for rain and we got nary a drop here on the edge of the Judean Desert. Shabbat should be pleasant.
This shabbat, we and our guests will enjoy: ḥalla, baked chicken, rice, chili cholent, various salatim, fruit, “just cake”, and brownies.
Until next time,
shabbat shalom!
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