short takes

My lilac bush is finally blooming! It seems like everyone else's did that a couple weeks ago.

Our congregation's annual meeting was tonight. I am no longer worship chair (term expired). For the first time in four years I have no official position of responsibility. It feels odd. I'm going to see if I can change that. :-) (I mean, an incipient sh'liach k'hilah ought to be able to do something useful, and official, around the place...)

I like this pitch for minyan attendance (forwarded by xiphias). Very talmudic. :-)

CNN reports: "An 86-year-old woman was jailed after police said she called emergency dispatchers 20 times in a little more than a half-hour -- all to complain that a pizza parlor wouldn't deliver. [...] She also complained that someone at the shop called her a "crazy old coot," Giannini said." Um, yeah, that sounds about right to me. :-)

Old news for some, but anyone who hasn't yet seen the UK memo about fixing the case for the invasion of Iraq should do so. (I first saw it via profane_stencil.)