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Friday night's service was a so-called "adult b'nei mitzvah" service. (Boy, do I hate that term.) Six members of the congregation who'd never had bar/bat-mitzvah ceremonies led the service and read Torah. I participated in this last time around (two years ago) and it was pretty neat. This group did a good job. Tom, the person I studied with at the Shabbaton, did really well; his Hebrew is close to flawless (and was the best of the bunch).
Tom has apparently been telling people that I helped him a lot in understanding the portion. (I draw this conclusion based on the number of random people who approached me about it.) He's giving me too much credit. In one specific area I don't want credit, either: I disagreed somewhat with the spin of his drash (commentary/mini-sermon). It was well-done; I just disagreed with it.
Saturday was a local SCA event.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rani23 cooked a wonderful feast, and there was plenty for vegetarians to eat. The day was hot and humid; fortunately, the hall was air-conditioned. The choir performed and I think we did quite well; I was especially pleased with how "Halleluyah Halleli", the Rossi piece, came out.
The computer saga continues. Everyone local remember this name: A2Z Computers. Do not do business with them. Willie warned me about their business practices, but after Dani had called them for the initial repair. That was unfortunate. This meant that we were in a position to discover their technical deficiencies.
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The only thing I can correlate the errrors with is uptime, and even that is shaky. How would I test whether the fan is operating correctly?
The machine I ordered a week ago should be here any day now. Good; it looks like my current desktop machine is dead and the people who took quite a bit of money to fix it are going to screw us over on that.
Meanwhile, Dani's machine died Sunday. Looks like a hard-drive failure. He took it to CompUSA for diagnosis, so he'll know whether to buy a new hard drive or a new machine.
Last night we decided that we needed to distract ourselves by watching technology go wrong for other people, so we went to see Minority Report.
Tom has apparently been telling people that I helped him a lot in understanding the portion. (I draw this conclusion based on the number of random people who approached me about it.) He's giving me too much credit. In one specific area I don't want credit, either: I disagreed somewhat with the spin of his drash (commentary/mini-sermon). It was well-done; I just disagreed with it.
Saturday was a local SCA event.
rani23 cooked a wonderful feast, and there was plenty for vegetarians to eat. The day was hot and humid; fortunately, the hall was air-conditioned. The choir performed and I think we did quite well; I was especially pleased with how "Halleluyah Halleli", the Rossi piece, came out.The computer saga continues. Everyone local remember this name: A2Z Computers. Do not do business with them. Willie warned me about their business practices, but after Dani had called them for the initial repair. That was unfortunate. This meant that we were in a position to discover their technical deficiencies.
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The only thing I can correlate the errrors with is uptime, and even that is shaky. How would I test whether the fan is operating correctly?
The machine I ordered a week ago should be here any day now. Good; it looks like my current desktop machine is dead and the people who took quite a bit of money to fix it are going to screw us over on that.
Meanwhile, Dani's machine died Sunday. Looks like a hard-drive failure. He took it to CompUSA for diagnosis, so he'll know whether to buy a new hard drive or a new machine.
Last night we decided that we needed to distract ourselves by watching technology go wrong for other people, so we went to see Minority Report.