The house is back to normal, non Passover mode, as of late afternoon Sunday.
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Barbarella, ah, barbarella ....

Just saw it, for the first time, at long last.

I laughed so hard!

But really it's not a bad movie: it had a premise (and a plot) and it sticks to it! Oh, and so many superbly ridiculous setups. And the name of the composition he plays on the "Excessive Machine" --- o, perfect!

Light hang for theater at first, including pick up from Storage with Hobbit ( Read more... )

So, LJ, hi again.

It's been a long time. Actually, I was effectively "locked out" from livejournal for... several... months, due to changed password requirements, repeated delay, and a spam filter.

Now I'm back --- on the last day possible before I lose access to that recovery email --- and I'm feeling oddly shy.

Peri-b'nai-mitzvah services went well. Pretty good turnout, although heavily weighed to the pre- group. Two post-bat mitzvah : E. and T., plus M the older brother of a pre-bat mitz ( Read more... )

Went to home depot yesterday with Jonathon. We got a sturdy new shelf to hold the expanded set of Passover boxes. We got new double light switch, to replace the one in the third floor bathroom, which was weirdly popping out in the middle between the two half-sized "decora" flat rockers. (I was never sure if it was dangerous or just unaesthetic. I'm ( Read more... )

I've been listening to Bujold's vorkosigan series as audio books. I've read a few here and there, but never in any particular order. I recently discovered that a very nice set of recorded audio book versions are available from the library in an app called Hoopla. I decided to listen to them, all of them, start to finish ( Read more... )

My friend Jeremy is getting ordained this weekend. This evening I got the unique chance to listen in (and even help a little) as he reviewed the Hebrew translation with an Israeli member of his beit din team. It was really neat.

Also, I very much enjoyed making her acquaintance: Rabbi Mira Raz.

In Japanese, the particle "wo" is generally used for direct-object type stuff. But it's also used to mark the origin of motion AND to mark the origin when expanding from small to large space. The latter is true both literally and metaphorically. So, for instance, one "graduates wo university" because the self-contained world of the school is ( Read more... )

Caught up on some sleep ( Read more... )