cellio | short takes

Yesterday morning I chanted Torah at Tree of Life. It went really well! Next year I will learn the third aliyah so I can do the entire thing. One of the minyanaires was trying to get me to lead the service (Dave, the usual leader, was sick); I deflected it. I'd like to be able to do so, but my Hebrew isn't yet good enough to do a morning service in an acceptable amount of time. Eventually...

Last night's board meeting was the annual budget discussion. This meeting (every year) also gets the incoming trustees, who will be elected at next week's congregational meeting, so there were some extra people there. One of those newcomers came up to me after the meeting and said she really likes the way I analyze things and ask questions. I guess I haven't lost the touch. :-)

After the board meeting (and dinner) we watched this week's "West Wing". Wow. That was really well-done. We knew to expect a cliff-hanger, of course. The plot twist for which the episode was named did not actually surprise me (though it was poingiantly done); after the events of a couple weeks ago, didn't everyone look up that part of the constitution? Or was it only the geeky fans?

I've been getting spam lately with the subject line "seek of spam?". The source of the error seems obvious (non-native speaker with vowel confusion), but given that spammers mainly seek vectors, I found it amusing.