last couple days (service stuff, Pennsic stuff)

Last week, when I helped lead services, I received many compliments. In that situation it's always hard to tell where something is on the scale from "just being polite" to "heartfelt compliment", so it's best to not get too excited (though of course compliments feel good and I assume there's at least some degree of positive feeling involved in any such). However, I'll give a little more weight to the several people who approached me this week to tell me how much they enjoyed my singing last week, and to the multiple people who apparently told my rabbi this. Woo!

Thursday morning I led part of shacharit, as I mentioned before, and then led mincha at my congregation. I seemed to be more at ease with some of the text Thursday evening than I usually am. Repetition helps. :-)

This morning's study and service were back up to their usual numbers. My rabbi is back in town (yay!), but came back with some sort of bug (oops). I hope he's well enough to keep the appointment I have with him on Monday.

Today was the first day of Pennsic set-up. I got a message from our land agent that my house is in place, but that they managed to break the jack on the trailer hitch. Sigh! This is the second time that has happened. So it's in our camp, but it's not moving out at the end until I can replace that jack. I'll find out more when I go up there tomorrow. Last time it took 3-4 weeks for a mail-ordered jack to come, though I took the first web-based supplier I could find so maybe I can improve on that. The first thing to do, though, is find out how it failed so I know whether I should be buying a different jack. (That is, did something stupid happen, like driving it without raising the jack, or did it fail in a situation where it shouldn't've?)