Just checking in. Life continues to be busy. This past week was *ridiculous* as I was occupied pretty much nonstop for almost the entire week. I didn't get to bed before 2:00 Monday-Thursday nights (which isn't so hot for me), and by Friday, I was so tired that I completely forgot about an appointment. I remembered 10 minutes after I was ( Read more... )

This Wednesday and Thursday are both 12+ hour days for me. Oy.

Perhaps I'll post for real this weekend.

Number of people who signed the anti-facebook petition: 105,942 (as of 1:44 am Friday morning).

Number of people who signed the petition calling for an end of genocide in Darfur: 3,120

(Told you I was going to post more often ( Read more... )

It's been a long time since my last post - sorry. Things have been crazy ( Read more... )

FINALLY, my article got printed. I wrote it over a month ago, and at last it's online. There will be a follow-up next week (when, of course, I'll be out of town). Check out my work hereQotD ( Read more... )

and I'm feeling much better, thank you. :) This weekend, I was *very* productive on Saturday and on Sunday, my family and I took an excursion to Natural Bridge, which was awesome. Services on Friday were wonderful, and I'm leading services this coming Friday, then it's vacation time! :-D

This past week has been largely recuperative, but I have ( Read more... )

So, yesterday, instead of going to the family reunion, I made two trips to the hospital trying to deal with what turned out to be a very uncooperative (read: inactive) digestive system. Having spent the night at Roanoke Memorial Hospital, I'm feeling much better though, sadly, I still have my average post-surgery pain to deal with. This whole ( Read more... )

Gallbladder removal went just fine. Plenty to tell, but maybe later. Yesterday and today have been all about recovery - it's coming along just fine. Slower than I wanted/anticipated, but with not too much pain. Family reunion this weekend - hoping I'll be all better by Saturday ( Read more... )

I got an email from someone I respect who (hopefully) forwarded it blindly. It makes me very, very mad as it uses the tragic history of the Jews to support an agenda of intolerance and violence ( Read more... )