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[cellio]

Someday I will figure out how one properly decorates a sukkah; the only decorated ones I've seen have been done up with stuff made by the kids in the family/congregation. If I decorate, I want adult decorations. Whatever those would be. But at least the strands of small white lights (bought on December 26 one year :-) ) are pretty. And, more importantly, provide ample light to see dinner by.

So far it's a one-splinter year for the sukkah. That's pretty good for me. :-)

For bizarre reasons, yesterday I found myself needing to know how to say "purple dinosaur" in Hebrew. My dictionary was of no help on "dinosaur", so I ended up settling for "reptile". Not the same thing, but good enough in context.

I found out recently that my parents have never, in their entire lives, eaten Indian food. Wow. Chinese food was a novelty for me when I was growing up, but I thought that was just due to the local restaurant options. No, my parents just haven't explored a lot of unusual foods. So we're going to take them to an Indian restaurant in a couple weeks. (And no, I haven't asked them about sushi yet.)

I've been getting a lot of spam lately for Vicadin, whatever that is. From googling it appears to be either a painkiller or a psychadelic, but I'm not sure which. (I suppose the latter is a type of the former, for some people.) Did it just come onto the market or something?

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Re: Sukkah Decorations

[cellio]

The other theory on sukkah decorations is, "Damnit, if my neighbors are going to have something that tacky for Christmas, I'm going to get my revenge on Sukkot" -- six-foot tall light-up plastic ushpizin and the like, strobing lights along the posts and top, and so forth.

:-)

Y'know, currently my sukkah isn't really visible to the neibhbors (fenced back yard), but something like that could motivate me to move it! :-) (I was thinking of rebuilding anyway; currently I'm using the fence as an anchor and for one of the walls, but I'd like more flexibility.)