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Archive for December, 2007 - כסלו / טבת תשס"ח

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By penny • December 31, 2007 - כ"ג טבת תשס"ח • Category: books

How do people come up with such witty titles? *sigh*
I have been meaning to write about this for weeks now. NYPL has finally launched their new website. The main index page is now more portal "start page" like. This is a wonderful new version, though I have configured my main web browsers with tool bar [...]



counting?

By penny • December 30, 2007 - כ"ב טבת תשס"ח • Category: write

We know I tend to have multiple projects going on all the time, reading, fibrey stuff, client work, etc.
What I’ve not yet spoken too much about is that I keep many journals. I wanted to take some photos but alas it is too nasty and grey today, nor did I have the time [...]



read carefully

By penny • December 29, 2007 - כ"א טבת תשס"ח • Category: food

I seem to sometimes forget how to read. Rarely do I forget to check if even a commonly purchased food has a hescher (kosher symbol) on it. Rarely, however, do I remember that I now have to read the ingredient list carefully.
I’ve been having some gi distress lately and I thought perhaps it might be [...]



sh’mot

By penny • December 28, 2007 - כ' טבת תשס"ח • Category: judaism

This week we open a new book and begin Sh’mot (Exodus). We read from 1:1-6:1.
As has been written many places, but I will cite from here, each book of the Torah has a “theme” of sorts. Bereshit focused on Creation and the “Avot” (Fathers). Sh’mot is a little more difficult to simplify in that [...]



upcoming

By penny • December 27, 2007 - י"ט טבת תשס"ח • Category: tools

There are quite a few things that I want to write properly about. Sadly I’ve not had the opportunity to sit and spent the time to draft them out. By the time I get to some of thse topics I’m sure that they will be quite “old” news.
So, I will stoop down and [...]



slowly progress

By penny • December 26, 2007 - י"ח טבת תשס"ח • Category: create

To E, progress in my fibre world means getting yarn out of the house.
I’ve been finishing and sending gifts out left right and center. Hopefully the USPS will continue to deliver fibrey goodness to friends far and near (well, hmm… none are quite near).
I actually spun for about 10 minutes yesterday. I didn’t do [...]