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I belong to an SCA household whose main function in life is to hold roughly-monthly potluck dinners. Last night Dani and I hosted. It had been a while since we did one, so we announced that the theme was "round tuits". This produced lots of round food. Dani even got brussels sprouts out of the deal. :-) (I can't stand them, so this was a rare opportunity for him.) I made lots and lots of meatballs, from a recipe in Drizzle of Honey (reconstructions of expulsion-era Spanish Jewish recipes). Cilantro makes all the difference. :-)
We began the tax returns. This started with Dani opening the TurboTax box and discovering an empty sleeve where the CD should be. Fortunately, he still had the receipt and was able to replace it. We're still in the midst of data entry, so we don't know how bad the hit will be yet. (How could mutual funds that did so poorly overall have such high capital gains? Ugh -- we lost money and we're going to pay taxes for the privilege.)
Saturday was an On the Mark practice. I think we're in pretty good shape for Galacticon next month.
Friday night was another of the "class services" (5th grade this time). I try to schedule my cantor stints against these when I know (I have philosophical/halachic problems with some stuff that happens at these), but it didn't work out this time. Oh well. They just updated the calendar so I know when the 4th-grade service is in April, so I'll try to make that one a ToL night.
Because of Purim, the Torah-study group studied Zachor (the verses about blotting out Amalek) instead of our usual progression through Vayikra.
After Wednesday's D&D game I borrowed Ralph's Monster Manual so I could look up the creatures that I could theoretically summon with a Summon Monster spell. I'm still trying to decide on my (single) second-level spell; it's going to be either Summon Monster or Flame Sphere. Both can provide for interesting distractions in combat; in both cases I'm more interested in the distraction/routing effect than the damage effect.
Levitate is also second level. The spell only gives you vertical control (it's not Fly), which raises the question of how much force is necessary to propel a willing levitating creatures horizontally. Is it like zero-g, where you don't need much? Can a Mage Hand push you along? :-)
After work it's off to Silver Spring to visit Seth & Karen and Yaakov & Rivka for Purim. Yay! Should be lots of fun!
We began the tax returns. This started with Dani opening the TurboTax box and discovering an empty sleeve where the CD should be. Fortunately, he still had the receipt and was able to replace it. We're still in the midst of data entry, so we don't know how bad the hit will be yet. (How could mutual funds that did so poorly overall have such high capital gains? Ugh -- we lost money and we're going to pay taxes for the privilege.)
Saturday was an On the Mark practice. I think we're in pretty good shape for Galacticon next month.
Friday night was another of the "class services" (5th grade this time). I try to schedule my cantor stints against these when I know (I have philosophical/halachic problems with some stuff that happens at these), but it didn't work out this time. Oh well. They just updated the calendar so I know when the 4th-grade service is in April, so I'll try to make that one a ToL night.
Because of Purim, the Torah-study group studied Zachor (the verses about blotting out Amalek) instead of our usual progression through Vayikra.
After Wednesday's D&D game I borrowed Ralph's Monster Manual so I could look up the creatures that I could theoretically summon with a Summon Monster spell. I'm still trying to decide on my (single) second-level spell; it's going to be either Summon Monster or Flame Sphere. Both can provide for interesting distractions in combat; in both cases I'm more interested in the distraction/routing effect than the damage effect.
Levitate is also second level. The spell only gives you vertical control (it's not Fly), which raises the question of how much force is necessary to propel a willing levitating creatures horizontally. Is it like zero-g, where you don't need much? Can a Mage Hand push you along? :-)
After work it's off to Silver Spring to visit Seth & Karen and Yaakov & Rivka for Purim. Yay! Should be lots of fun!
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