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Sukkot started with rain, as in this thematic haiku from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
richardf8. Saturday I noticed that the lights in the sukkah were out; Sunday we determined that power to the entire garage (from which that extension cord was run) was out. The garage outlet doesn't have a GFI and the breaker wasn't tripped; I had not previously known that a GFI might be elsewhere on the circuit. It turns out that the line from the basement to the garage goes through an outlet in the furnace room that has a GFI, and something -- presumably the rain and my lights -- tripped it. (Mind, I've been using that configuration of lights for ten years without prior problems...) There is now an annotation in the breaker box about this.
Last week Rabbi Symons and I completed our study of midrash on the Akeidah. (I still owe a couple write-ups.) Saying kaddish d'rabbanan at that point was quite satisfying. He asked me what's next, I said I picked last time, and he proposed something that sounds good to me. (I'll reveal it after he confirms that there is a sufficient body of interesting material.)
A new Dunkin' Donuts opened in Squirrel Hill last week. I knew they were getting kosher certification for the doughnuts; I hadn't realized that they were getting it for everything. So they sell breakfast sandwiches but that's not really bacon or sausage. (I haven't heard if it's turkey or soy.)
Two interesting links frommagid: the referendum (or mid-life re-evaluations) and watching whales watching us.
Fromchaiya: Improve Everywhere does invisible dogs. Nicely done, including some of the community response. :-)
From a coworker: unfortunate domain names.
richardf8. Saturday I noticed that the lights in the sukkah were out; Sunday we determined that power to the entire garage (from which that extension cord was run) was out. The garage outlet doesn't have a GFI and the breaker wasn't tripped; I had not previously known that a GFI might be elsewhere on the circuit. It turns out that the line from the basement to the garage goes through an outlet in the furnace room that has a GFI, and something -- presumably the rain and my lights -- tripped it. (Mind, I've been using that configuration of lights for ten years without prior problems...) There is now an annotation in the breaker box about this.Last week Rabbi Symons and I completed our study of midrash on the Akeidah. (I still owe a couple write-ups.) Saying kaddish d'rabbanan at that point was quite satisfying. He asked me what's next, I said I picked last time, and he proposed something that sounds good to me. (I'll reveal it after he confirms that there is a sufficient body of interesting material.)
A new Dunkin' Donuts opened in Squirrel Hill last week. I knew they were getting kosher certification for the doughnuts; I hadn't realized that they were getting it for everything. So they sell breakfast sandwiches but that's not really bacon or sausage. (I haven't heard if it's turkey or soy.)
Two interesting links from
magid: the referendum (or mid-life re-evaluations) and watching whales watching us.From
chaiya: Improve Everywhere does invisible dogs. Nicely done, including some of the community response. :-)From a coworker: unfortunate domain names.
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