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I noticed something in the torah reading yesterday in the passage about the ben sorer u'moreh, the stubborn and rebellious son: If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, that will not hearken to the voice of his father, [or?

Last August I left my previous synagogue, which had just voted to merge with another and move out of the neighborhood, and joined Beth Shalom, the large Conservative synagogue in Squirrel Hill.

Last week was the Origins game con.

A couple months ago, one of the other players in the D&D campaign we play in ordered a custom 3D-printed miniature for his character.

Shavuot is the holiday about the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai (matan torah).

On our last day in St.

Last week we were in St.

I've known Ny (MinoanMiss on Dreamwidth, previously Browngirl on Livejournal) online for decades, and got to meet her in person twice.

My father had an ancient Macbook -- not sure what he used it for, since he had not one but two newer iMacs as well as a couple tablets, but my mother said he did use it.

Today while driving to meet someone for talmud study, I came to some road construction.

Last year we replaced our roof, which unlocked solar panels.

Constrained by the limits of the web form, this is what I sent Senator Fetterman on Sunday: Senator, In October, you joined Republicans to end a government shutdown without getting any meaningful concessions for the top issue at the time.

We got a bunch of snow on Sunday and paid someone to clear the sidewalks, but as expected, there was a lot more snow overnight.

This afternoon we saw a traveling exhibit at the Frick Art Museum, The Scandinavian Home.

In my last post I talked about the sudden death of my Android phone (again) and my pursuit of an iPhone, which was stymied not by Apple but by T-Mobile.

Today while I was using my phone (Pixel) in a perfectly ordinary way, the screen went black and soon after the phone stopped responding at all.

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I tried a new-to-me CSA this year, Who Cooks For You Farm.

At the shabbaton I led a text-study session that I called "Avram before Lech L'cha" (which was the week's portion).

My now-former synagogue has an occasional shabbaton (Shabbat retreat), nominally once a year but sometimes the gaps are longer.

Yes.

I joined Beth Shalom in August.

The other day, I saw something cute and reposted it on Mastodon: Overheard, and for Internet old-timers: "Today is the 11,691st day of September 1993".

I've had my Visa card for a very long time (decades).

This year I got three (different) tomato seedlings, all container-friendly, along with some peppers and other things.

Dani and I both concluded, at about the same time, that our office chairs were past their use-by dates.

My mother has never learned to use computers, aside from a smartphone that she uses for calls and texting with the grandkids.

Last night I looked out the window a few minutes after nominal sunset and saw an unusual and impressive color in the sky.

We went to Origins Game Fair last week.

We got home from Origins Game Fair today.