A nice weekend

We had friends staying over Shabbat; their niece (who goes to the same shul we do) became bat mitzvah and this way they could attend. Yay.

Sunday I took Tani to a birthday party, then did yard work, then went to a lovely gathering at hahathor's house. It was great to actually connect with other NPLers in person, even if I had to arrive after the main puzzle-solving activities.

Keeping up the book logging, I finished Kage Baker's Children of the Company. OK, enough of this author for now. I'm probably going to switch genres entirely for a while -- there are a couple of biographies on my to-borrow-from-the-library list, and I really want to finally get to the Holy Sonnets of Donne.

I've fallen far enough behind on Daf Yomi that I'm going into "recovery mode" -- I'm going to jump ahead to where the official schedule is, and instead of listening to shiurim for the catchup I'm just reading the Soncino translation of the gap pages. There was some amusing stuff in what I read on Shabbat, including a debate on the proper tipping practice when a group enters a restaurant together but leave individually (they should pay the bill in full before the first person leaves, but one Rabbi says the last one to leave should tip extra to compensate the waitstaff for the inconvenience).

A nice weekend

We had friends staying over Shabbat; their niece (who goes to the same shul we do) became bat mitzvah and this way they could attend. Yay.

Sunday I took Tani to a birthday party, then did yard work, then went to a lovely gathering at hahathor's house. It was great to actually connect with other NPLers in person, even if I had to arrive after the main puzzle-solving activities.

Keeping up the book logging, I finished Kage Baker's Children of the Company. OK, enough of this author for now. I'm probably going to switch genres entirely for a while -- there are a couple of biographies on my to-borrow-from-the-library list, and I really want to finally get to the Holy Sonnets of Donne.

I've fallen far enough behind on Daf Yomi that I'm going into "recovery mode" -- I'm going to jump ahead to where the official schedule is, and instead of listening to shiurim for the catchup I'm just reading the Soncino translation of the gap pages. There was some amusing stuff in what I read on Shabbat, including a debate on the proper tipping practice when a group enters a restaurant together but leave individually (they should pay the bill in full before the first person leaves, but one Rabbi says the last one to leave should tip extra to compensate the waitstaff for the inconvenience).

Come work with me

My team is looking to hire another engineer to work on .EDIT, a really cool browser-based online page-layout product for which I'm the architect. (We have some other open positions, too.) I've been here 9 years and continue to look forward to coming in to work each day, so if you're interested and in the Boston area, lemme know.

Come work with me

My team is looking to hire another engineer to work on .EDIT, a really cool browser-based online page-layout product for which I'm the architect. (We have some other open positions, too.) I've been here 9 years and continue to look forward to coming in to work each day, so if you're interested and in the Boston area, lemme know.