Maybe I'm just trying to do too much. Or may be I'm just stupid. Or both.

On the home front, we still haven't signed on a kitchen. Either our expectations are too high and we really can't afford what we want. Or have we just not received fair pricing for the design. Buy a kitchen; pay separately for the cupboards, the counter, the sinks, the taps, the appliances and probably more that I haven't put in this list (and how could I forget delivery). S is getting really down on this whole thing. Just getting the company designer to give us a quote on the design we've been heading toward brings comments like "the design is no good, it doesn't make good use of dynamic space." Dynamic what? But when we have a set of quotes, we'll be able to make a decision: with who to go ahead and whether the design needs to be modified. We definitely won't be able to move in until the kitchen is complete.

What S calls an "entertainment center" won't fit in the new place. Our current dining-room table is great, but will need the extra space that the entertainment center would have taken. We'll have to place the TV on the sideboard. Not a real problem, but we will still need display cases for the things we have on display now.

We need a new table for the kitchen 70 or 80 cm wide would be good. (A 70 cm wide table requires a 220 cm space taking into account pull-back space for chairs.)

The built-in desk, in the room we intend to place the computer, my books, the bed for S's parents if they ever visit and one of our filing cabinets, takes too much space. My current computer desk will do fine, but I'll still need shelf space above the desk. The current bookshelves, stuck currently along one of A's room too small walls, is the right length, but since it's 15 years old I don't think it will move well. In addition, the cupboards underneath the shelves are deeper than the shelves, and this extra 10 cm also takes too much space from the room when the guest bed is open. So we need new book shelves.

The wardrobes (at least in the girls' rooms) were not designed for hanging long dresses. We'll need a carpenter to alter that.

Of course the kids' rooms all need new desks, bookshelves and other shelves. I'll need something next to the bed.

Then there could be a need to rewire so that we can make good use of Shabbat clocks to control the lights on Shabbat and Chagim (holydays). And a shed for the bicycles. And let's not talk about getting a dog. AAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!!!

OK, let's move to a different topic.

I've really started working on the family tree. F in America has started sending the details he has on my mother's side, so I really only have to concentrate on Dad's side at this time. Already I may have located the missing name of my great-grandmother. I have found more names of children of my grandfather's siblings. But there is still a need for more depth to the tree, rather than breadth. In addition, I want to make sure to computerize the data.

Which brings me to computer expenditures. I have a freeware genealogy program, but I really want something stronger. I intend to buy Reunion. But I want to wait until the new Mac operating system (Tiger) is released in the first half of next year to make sure there is no compatibility issue.

Then I want a faster computer. I can get a CPU board for the computer that would make my computer 3 times faster just in terms of clock speed. But even if the board has dual CPUs, my computer would only be just a little over half as fast as a new computer. Again compatibility with Tiger will delay any purchase.

We really should have a higher level graphics program and an updated version of the kid's graphics program and iLife. (Not this year!)

Then I am the moderator of the ilblogs web ring. (A web ring is a method of joining like web sites together in a chain; in this case Israeli blogs (web logs, just like the one your reading now.) When people want to join the ring, they have to put the linking HTML code on their page. So when I receive expressions of interest I send them the HTML code. And then they don't install the code on their page. And so I follow it up (but I can't do it at work). Do they really want to be on the ring? So "meander" don't worry about the size of the ring and I may take your previous suggestion about dumping the old list of members, but it all takes time.

S is suffering from pains even though she swims and goes to a chiropractor. She's been to a Orthopedist, the next step is a Rheumatologist. Her unemployment is bothering her as well.

R got her belt. Now she and E have the same belt, but E still has status above R as she has had the belt longer.

R's into doing her nails and doing crochet. She's crocheting a scarf and intends to make hats and kippot (skull caps) for the little children who make up her "fan club".

E was invited to join the city choir. (R was too at the same age.) E has to decide if she has the time for the city choir along with English, Karate and Scouts.

A was suspended from school one day for violence. He attacked a boy at school who he says was bothering him. At first I thought he had been defending himself, in which case he would have been congratulated. But then we found out that he had attacked the kid, boy was he in trouble. Doubly so, as he hadn't told us the whole story properly from the beginning. Even the teacher says he is a good boy, but this lack of good behaviour is troubling.

In comparison, A's basketball lessons show improvement. At the last lesson, he was able to sink 4 baskets.