Sunday short takes

[cellio]

The snow on the dafodils yesterday morning was very pretty. I should have gone inside for the camera, but I didn't -- and it was gone when we got back later.

Sunday dinner was pleasant. We had corned beef and cabbage (delayed from St. Patrick's day). Also some very tasty potatoes and (later) wonderful if misspelled creme bruille. Yum!

After dinner some of us played Cosmic Wimpout. I'd heard of the game but never seen it before. I'd always assumed that it was some sort of knock-off or spoof of Cosmic Encounters, but it's unrelated. It's a dice game with a gambling element.

Dani took an early lead with a 180-point turn (most of us were getting about 30 points a turn, if we scored at all). When he topped 500 and we all got one final chance to beat him, I had a good turn and beat him by about 30 points. So then he got a final chance to go against me, but he didn't score. That was not how I expected that to turn out at all.

(The black die has a wild spot on it that isn't on the other dice. Belatedly I realized that I don't know which face it replaces. That would seem to matter to the odds.)

In other news... the Trib printed my letter on Sunday. The Sunday edition has higher circulation than any weekday, so that's nice.

This Shabbat I was once again reminded of how most people at my synagogue seem to assume that all liberal Jews are politically very liberal. It drives me nuts. I wonder if some of my fellow congregants would say some of the hateful things they say if they realized that there's someone in the room who actually holds the opinions they're deriding. (I see little interest in actual debate/discussion.) I have no problem with disagreement; my problem is with unnecessary snideness and rudeness in denegrating the other side of any conflict. In my experience, the ultra-liberals seem to be somewhat more prone to this sort of thing than are the ultra-conservatives, with the exception (from the latter camp) of the anti-abortionists.

Comments

[revlainiep.livejournal.com]

So it is ok to have a dairy dessert after a meat meal as long as there is some time between the dessert after the meat meal?

(just wondering)

[cellio]

Dairy after meat is ok after a waiting period. Depending on your community, family, or rabbi, that waiting period will be 6, 3, or 1 hour(s). Mine is 3, so it's actually feasible for me to eat dairy desserts at meat dinners because we spend several hours hanging out anyway.