A happy ending

My usual routine in the morning is to go to the coffee shop, get a pasty, and go to the lab. This morning was no different than any other morning except when I arrived at the lab I noticed my wallet was missing. I still had my purse but somehow my wallet escaped.

Since I had only been in two places I retraced my steps to no avail. The security guard told me that nine times out of ten people's wallets were returned. I went back to lab to sit and wait because I coudln't really focus on anything but calls I would have to make-cards I would need to cancel.

About five minutes later this nice woman calls me and told me that he son found my wallet!!! I ran over to her apartment and picked it up. I only had about six dollars in cash so I gave it to the little boy that found my wallet.

There are good people in this world...

United Drummers of Yisrael

So there were some dudes on the subway playing their drums, and preaching peace, love, understanding, or something like that. Their shirts each had a big magen david on it and they were wearing tzitzit. I was curious.

I asked them why they wore fringes on their shirts. They replied that keep all the laws of G-d-like shabbos and kosher and even wear the name of G-d on their foreheads. To me the latter is singly the responsibility of the Cohen Gadol but I didn't bother with that. I stuck with politics-I simply asked them how they felt about the disengagement.

Yossi replied that the Bible talks about the fact that when the Jews don't behave that the land will spit them out.

I can only improve my actions so that we will merit the land once again.

Post Script

This just something I found on Google-I don't claim it to be comprehensive-I don't really know much about these people-

They seemed like nice guys on the subway.

They can certainly play those drums...

An Interview from Aljazeera

I don't quite get how this article ended up here, but you should really read it.

Interview with an Israeli settler

Now I can't cheer...

Ok, so I know that knocking on wood is not the appropriate Jewish thing to do but now I can't cheer "Hip Hip Hooray" anymore either.

Apparently,

HIP! HIP! HURRAH! - Hip, we're told, derives from the initials of the Latin words 'Hiersolyms est perdita,' 'Jerusalem is destroyed.' German knights, not a very bright bunch, were supposed to have known this and shouted 'hip, hip!' When they hunted Jews in the persecutions of the Middle Ages. 'Hurrah!' by the same strained imagining, is said to be a corruption of the Slavonic word for Paradise (hu-raj). Therefore, if you ever shout 'hip! hip! hurrah!' You are supposedly shouting: 'Jerusalem is destroyed (the infidels are destroyed) and we are on the road to Paradise!'

I don't know if this is real or not, but hey, the phrase is now ruined.

Well, I can't remember when I have ever said this. Basically it's the priciple of the matter

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A Phantom Tollbooth.

The Giver.

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Cell phone dilemma

So I have had this cell phone of mine for about two years now. Being the loyal Verizon customer, I am now entitled to a $100 credit. But I like my phone. I can make calls-have an alarm-text message-it has nice green LCD screen...why do I need a phone with a color screen, that's way more complicated, that has a camera, that has a video, why why why do I need all of these things. I think it's a tad silly that the most basic of phones now has to come with all these features. Maybe they could have just improved the reception capability, or built it so that when you drop the darn thing-it doesn't break. I don't know-I am not sure why I am against these technologies-I just don't want them on my phone.

Nevertheless-if this phone breaks and I don't use my credit-I will end up spending lots more money which I certainly don't want to do. Maybe I should get a new fancy phone and just keep it as a back up for when this one breaks. Maybe I should just embrace technology and make friends with the new fancy phone.