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Services Friday night were packed. There must have been 500 people there. On a normal Shabbat (when no one's celebrating a bar/bat mitzvah), we get around 100. We also got more than normal Saturday morning, though the contrast wasn't as pronounced. (This is the early-morning informal singing minyan, usually around 30-40 people. I'd guess we had 60 yesterday. I almost never go to the later more-formal service.)
After services yesterday Dani and I went to Coronation (SCA event), which was in Jennserstown, about an hour and a half from here. (If that name sounds familiar, that's where early reports were placing the PA crash. We were about 20 miles away from the site, though.) The event went well, except that we missed the bulk of morning court (including the actual coronation ceremony) because the starting time was changed after the newsletter announcement was published. Oh well. Even if I had known, I'm not sure I would have been happy about skipping Shabbat services this particular week in order to go. Among things, we have people who are in need of help and support for reasons completely unrelated to Tuesday's events, and with everyone focusing on that, people like Jan (who just lost her father) can get short shrift, and that's not right. This may sound weird, but I felt like I needed to be there to hug Jan on this particular week. (Jan's not the only one.)
On the Mark had its first practice since before Pennsic today. Andrea took a one-year teaching job out in the middle of the state (about 4 hours by bus), which makes things challenging. She can come back to Pittsburgh every other weekend, so that's when we'll practice. Our next scheduled performance is Thanksgiving weekend, though we jut talked about trying to perform at an SCA event two weeks earlier because we'll all be there anyway.
Sign seen while approaching the Turnpike toll booths last night: "please use all lanes". Terribly sorry, but Dani and I do not own a vehicle with which we could comply. :-) (Maybe they mean over time -- every time we visit that toll booth we should use a different lane until done.) They could clarify their intent by changing the sign to "please use any lane".
I'm looking forward to meeting Ralph and Lori's kittens tonight.
After services yesterday Dani and I went to Coronation (SCA event), which was in Jennserstown, about an hour and a half from here. (If that name sounds familiar, that's where early reports were placing the PA crash. We were about 20 miles away from the site, though.) The event went well, except that we missed the bulk of morning court (including the actual coronation ceremony) because the starting time was changed after the newsletter announcement was published. Oh well. Even if I had known, I'm not sure I would have been happy about skipping Shabbat services this particular week in order to go. Among things, we have people who are in need of help and support for reasons completely unrelated to Tuesday's events, and with everyone focusing on that, people like Jan (who just lost her father) can get short shrift, and that's not right. This may sound weird, but I felt like I needed to be there to hug Jan on this particular week. (Jan's not the only one.)
On the Mark had its first practice since before Pennsic today. Andrea took a one-year teaching job out in the middle of the state (about 4 hours by bus), which makes things challenging. She can come back to Pittsburgh every other weekend, so that's when we'll practice. Our next scheduled performance is Thanksgiving weekend, though we jut talked about trying to perform at an SCA event two weeks earlier because we'll all be there anyway.
Sign seen while approaching the Turnpike toll booths last night: "please use all lanes". Terribly sorry, but Dani and I do not own a vehicle with which we could comply. :-) (Maybe they mean over time -- every time we visit that toll booth we should use a different lane until done.) They could clarify their intent by changing the sign to "please use any lane".
I'm looking forward to meeting Ralph and Lori's kittens tonight.