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Mar 27th

We’ve been able to sleep through the night about one night in three, this week. Sometimes the “early warnings” are just that, sometimes we need to repair to the shelter. The way it (often, not always) works is that an “early warning” emergency message blasts from our phones, at full volume. That gets our blood pumping. Then, if the incoming missiles and/or the intercepted bits are projected to hit our area, we get the “air-raid siren”, which serves to curdle the pumping blood. In that case, we expeditiously move to the air-raid shelter near us. If there was no siren, we grumble about having been jolted awake (or just jolted, if we were already awake).

You can track our incoming gifts on this site. Note that usually there are only at most a couple missiles in each “event”, and the map-pins are there to indicate areas of potential fragments or hits, not the number of missiles.

While my wife and I were sitting 2m (6ft) from each other, I got an “early warning” message, and she didn’t. Mine seems to have been because the anticipated alarms were in Jerusalem (I was sitting perhaps 50cm closer to that city than she); but we’re not supposed to get them unless our town is “in the list” as well, which it wasn’t. So I emailed the “Home Front” people to inquire why I got an alarm I shouldn’t have, and why she didn’t, since we’re on the same cell-tower. They responded: “Make sure your phone’s system is updated. Also, alerts are also received via other avenues…”. Yes, thank you very much, my phone is updated and I didn’t ask about the other avenues, you useless twit.

Of interest:

Israeli airspace is mostly closed and will remain so, probably, for a while.
And IL is a major target for cyberattacks on infrastructure though they’re not succeeding in a noticeable way.
On the “violent settlers”, and an opposing view.
Preston’s takes: IR war takes a dangerous turn; pivot more troops; FPV drones, are we ready?; and ground mission four options.
Lisa: What is the “Oral Torah”?
Language nerds: the age when English could do anything; and why doesn’t the Netherlands speak German?
Humor: Israelis use humor to cope; America flexed its might (and I’m kind of into it); the funniest joke about the IR leaders; and in the “least foreseen sequence of words, ever”: “Quadruple amputee, professional cornhole player, faced murder charges”.

Then we had to have a “tech” come out to service our “water bar”, because we noticed that it leaked only on shabbat (it has a “shabbat mode” where it stays on regardless of usage). The guy came and looked at the nearly full catchment and said, “that’s not so much water”. I then explained to him that during the week, it doesn’t leak, but on shabbat the catchment is nearly full (as it was, since we’d turned on “shabbat mode” so he could see the issue). He then told me “that’s normal”. To which, after pushing down my anger, I replied, “no, it is definitely not normal”. He then told me, “it’s condensation”. So I said, “why isn’t there condensation all week?”. Finally, the jackass looked around the device and saw there was water condensing on the side, which is assuredly abnormal. So he finally opened it up and replaced the heating element.

After which, he said as he was walking out the door, “it’s fixed”. I asked if he’d checked it, and he said, “I replaced the thing, it’s fixed”. My hatred for humans is, indeed, rational.

This shabbat the weather forecast is for cold and rain and warm and drizzle. So a bit of everything.

This shabbat we’re getting rid of the last of our “ḥameṣ”, so the menu will have:
homemade ḥalla, chicken schnitzel, roasted potatoes, bulgur, breaded eggplant with tomato sauce, various salatim, and brownies.

Until next time,
shabbat shalom!

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