http://wadiuwant.blogdrive.com/ Wadiuwant Thu, 08 Jun 2006 13:50:03 PDT http://www.blogdrive.com Copyright 2006. Family & Home Judaism http://wadiuwant.blogdrive.com/archive/87.html Thu, 08 Jun 2006 11:47:06 GMT Actually I never went away. I've just been too tired, distracted, without the time and just not in a blogging mood. So what's been happening? (If I just said "a lot", then someone out there in Blog-reading land would probably put out a contract on me.) So instead I'll break it up. The Home We've been living here for over a year. It's really nice being here, definitely larger than the apartment, but inadequate storage. I bought a shed, but it's already full. S loves the place, she says she's never slept better. The kitchen we finally settled on (we took a private carpenter rather... (more) http://wadiuwant.blogdrive.com/comments?id=87 http://wadiuwant.blogdrive.com/archive/86.html Sun, 07 Nov 2004 14:38:15 GMT 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... (more) http://wadiuwant.blogdrive.com/comments?id=86 http://wadiuwant.blogdrive.com/archive/85.html Tue, 12 Oct 2004 13:47:33 GMT Christopher Reeve died at age 52. His visit to Israel in the summer of 2003 was very impressive. His contribution to raising the awareness of spinal cord research was invaluable. (His picture was on all the channels and in all the papers.) Keith "Nugget" Miller has died at age 84. The end of a cricketing legend, probably Australia's greatest all-rounder. (No apparent recognition on Israeli TV or newspapers. Maybe he didn't make a trip to Israel.) A cultural icon. 2 Supermen who will be sorely missed. It's been a long busy time since I wrote last. Rosh HaShana (Jewish New Year),... (more) http://wadiuwant.blogdrive.com/comments?id=85 http://wadiuwant.blogdrive.com/archive/84.html Thu, 09 Sep 2004 18:38:30 GMT It's been a lousy 2 weeks health-wise. First the Vertigo (gone now), next some sort of sinus infection. Both have lasted about a week and interrupted my concentration at work. This week I spent 2 days at home due to a low-grade fever. This week began though with S's cousin's son's bar-mitzvah party. It took place in Beit Shemesh, about 1/2 an hour to 3/4 an hour from here. One thing was very odd, the party was before the Shabbat call up to the Torah. Reason: the American relatives who had to get home before the Labor Day Weekend finished. The language of the party was English. (Their... (more) http://wadiuwant.blogdrive.com/comments?id=84 http://wadiuwant.blogdrive.com/archive/83.html Sun, 05 Sep 2004 11:03:44 GMT The title is only half a joke. The tragedy in Russia with its climbing death toll, sends shivers down the spine of most Israelis. Not only do our hearts reach out to them at this time, but behind each of us is the question "could it happen here?" And we tell ourselves no. Not that our schools are invulnerable fortresses, but an attack of this magnitude would be difficult to setup. One or 2 people with suicide belts might be (God-forbid) possible, but not such a large attack with weaponry and explosives. Just the logistics would, we believe, be too difficult to pull off here. Think of the... (more) http://wadiuwant.blogdrive.com/comments?id=83 http://wadiuwant.blogdrive.com/archive/82.html Tue, 31 Aug 2004 15:03:13 GMT So it's the end of another month. ("So what!" I hear you say.) Well it's the day before school begins (strikes willing). It's the day after I missed my deadlines (hope the vertigo goes away). The Olympics are over. OK, nothing really earth shattering, but I've decided to write today anyway. All of us visited the new house, to get the dimensions of the rooms. We picked up the room and kitchen drawings, but we forgot to measure the space taken up by the built-in cupboards. The new microwave oven I bought Friday will fit in the kitchen. (We donated the old microwave to R's school for the... (more) http://wadiuwant.blogdrive.com/comments?id=82 http://wadiuwant.blogdrive.com/archive/81.html Wed, 25 Aug 2004 12:28:27 GMT Gal Fridman appears to have won Israel's first gold medal in the Olympics (and become the first Israeli to win 2 Olympic medals). Coming into the final race of the Mistral class (wind-surfing), he was assured of a medal. In the end he won by 10 points. (With the Bronze won by Ariel Zeevi in the 100kg Mens Judo, we (Israel) now are equal to Switzerland in the medal tally.) Australia is in a different league with 14 golds (and 37 medals overall). My vertigo is now under treatment with anti-histamines. So not only am I dizzy from time to time, I also see the world through an... (more) http://wadiuwant.blogdrive.com/comments?id=81 http://wadiuwant.blogdrive.com/archive/80.html Sun, 22 Aug 2004 14:44:15 GMT Not the movie, just the feeling that the room is spinning. Vertigo is a rotten thing to have. It started on Friday. Getting up from a prone position, lying down, rolling over in bed, all gives the same icky feeling. While it might be milder today, I'm going to have to make a doctor's appointment to see what can be done. I don't have much hope for any immediate cure. I was probably a little stupid riding my bicycle to work today, but it doesn't seem to kick in when I'm walking so I was probably safe. Last week I spent some time putting older blog material, from my previous blog site,... (more) http://wadiuwant.blogdrive.com/comments?id=80 http://wadiuwant.blogdrive.com/archive/33.html Mon, 16 Aug 2004 14:07:04 GMT Well, remember the accident from last week. Well we knew (at the time) the people in one of the cars as friends of one of our neighbours, but it took till this week for the following conversation at work: [I enter an elevator containing 2 fellow workers from our company in the middle of a conversation] [He was saying] . . . of course some people [looking at me] would say it was because I was driving on Shabbat. [I said] I didn't say anything. What happened? [He said] I had a car accident on Friday. [I said] Funny that, I say an accident on Friday. (And then I go on to describe... (more) http://wadiuwant.blogdrive.com/comments?id=33 http://wadiuwant.blogdrive.com/archive/32.html Sat, 14 Aug 2004 20:52:20 GMT In the past week, 2 events stand out (apart from the obvious fact that I'm about to miss an important deadline at work). The first was that S took me early from work one afternoon and we went to a forest playground near Bar Giora to have a bar-b-que with her cousins, who live in Beit Shemesh. We brought the mangal (small aluminium charcoal griller) and they brought the meat. I prefer lamb to chicken kebab, and the sausages were large, but tasteless. But I grill well, and everyone said they enjoyed the meal. After all the meat was cooked, they melted marshmallows over the hot coals. Their... (more) http://wadiuwant.blogdrive.com/comments?id=32