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This morning I saw a billboard that said something like "innocent people do not commit insurance fraud". Well duh! Innocent people don't commit any crime/sin, by definition! If you commit a crime, you're not innocent any more, at least of that crime. I presume that what they meant is that "decent upstanding respectable people don't commit insurance fraud (and that's why you shouldn't)", but I guess that just doesn't sound as dramatic.
Unfortunate timing: the folks who are trying to get a local house filk off the ground are trying again this Saturday, and there's an SCA event that I'm already committed to. Sigh. My company is also having an open house/party Saturday evening, which would otherwise be a good time to try to introduce some of my friends to folks there. (It's also one of two social things my company has coming up, and I won't be going to the Xmas party on a Friday night.) I guess Dani will have to wait a while longer to meet my co-workers.
On the Mark, in its SCA persona of Ensemble Rigodon, is doing a short concert at the event Saturday. So is the barony choir, but I don't think the performances are back to back so that should be fine.
The Sinai worship committee met tonight. The chair of the committee is too nice; she doesn't like to cut people off even if we've drifted far away from the agenda. I wonder how this group would respond to a firmer style of meeting-running. (Fortunately, I think by the time the position next comes open I will have abandoned this notion of putting my money where my mouth is. :-) ) Rabbi Gibson mentioned his plan to have congregants read Torah occasionally, which reminds me that I really need to drop him a note and ask for the parsha I want. (Behar. It's my "birthday" parsha, so to speak.)
One of the questions on the agenda for the meeting was what to do about the Monday and Thursday services. A few years ago we (well, they -- I wasn't there yet) started having afternoon services twice a week, because services aren't supposed to be just once a week. But turnout is generally very low, so we've been trying to figure out what to change to make them more attractive. The main focus tonight seemed to be scheduling, but we got off-topic and never actually decided to change the time. Grr.
Unfortunate timing: the folks who are trying to get a local house filk off the ground are trying again this Saturday, and there's an SCA event that I'm already committed to. Sigh. My company is also having an open house/party Saturday evening, which would otherwise be a good time to try to introduce some of my friends to folks there. (It's also one of two social things my company has coming up, and I won't be going to the Xmas party on a Friday night.) I guess Dani will have to wait a while longer to meet my co-workers.
On the Mark, in its SCA persona of Ensemble Rigodon, is doing a short concert at the event Saturday. So is the barony choir, but I don't think the performances are back to back so that should be fine.
The Sinai worship committee met tonight. The chair of the committee is too nice; she doesn't like to cut people off even if we've drifted far away from the agenda. I wonder how this group would respond to a firmer style of meeting-running. (Fortunately, I think by the time the position next comes open I will have abandoned this notion of putting my money where my mouth is. :-) ) Rabbi Gibson mentioned his plan to have congregants read Torah occasionally, which reminds me that I really need to drop him a note and ask for the parsha I want. (Behar. It's my "birthday" parsha, so to speak.)
One of the questions on the agenda for the meeting was what to do about the Monday and Thursday services. A few years ago we (well, they -- I wasn't there yet) started having afternoon services twice a week, because services aren't supposed to be just once a week. But turnout is generally very low, so we've been trying to figure out what to change to make them more attractive. The main focus tonight seemed to be scheduling, but we got off-topic and never actually decided to change the time. Grr.
a matter of perspective
Well, actually, this isn't so. The question is whether you have to be doing something knowingling to be committing a crime. The truth is, you don't always have to be aware that what you are doing is a crime.
But that's just being technical, isn't it? ;)
Re: a matter of perspective
Shabbat shalom!