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In the last seven months I have written in my paper journal nearly every weekday and on the occasional weekend day. Meanwhile, here in the wonderful world of digital journaling, there have been about a dozen entries, most of which have been extremely short and not brimming with information. In this time period our son Chaim Yosef / Chaim Yosi / Chaim has gone from being a little peanut of a baby born five weeks early to his present wonderful self. We went from having a rough time sleeping at night with him waking up every couple of hours to his sleeping through most of the night. We went on a trip to California to see our West Coast family and to see friends like the always awesome Jessica. This year we have managed to survive a blizzard, a heat wave, and now what was going to be a hurricane but turned out to be a tropical storm by the time it hit us. Thank you, North Carolina, for weakening the hurricane. Our transportation system was completely shut down on Saturday afternoon (so they told us it would be on Friday) and after we had lunch on Shabbos it was remarkable just how quiet it was outside. Not a soul to be heard driving. Someone on Reddit wrote on Sunday how the streets were like the film I Am Legend. Haven't seen that. Elizabeth and I watched a few episodes of the television show Arrested Development. Quite funny. Perhaps this will be the first of the more substantial updates I provide here. Or I will just neglect the journal for another few months until I remember to update it again. Tags: hurricane, jessica, jewish, shabbos, television
Current Location: United States, New York, Brooklyn
feeling: :  calm
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Someone asked me the other day what I will do when I have nothing about which to complain. By that they meant that I never stop complaining. I have been thinking about that pretty much since then. I then took that question and noticed how it applies itself to my day to day living. I may be wrong but I think the problem lays with what could be a fundamental flaw in me. I think when most people observe things that aren't the way that they perceive that they should be, they shrug their shoulders as though to say "Meh..." and move along. On the other hand, I think about that thing and try to find a solution such that it changes to how I perceive that it should be. Example: In the shul where I daven in the morning there is a door leading to a kitchen area that slams when someone opens it and lets it shut without gently closing it. For weeks I have been trying to find some hardware solution to change this so that it does not slam shut. Everyone else just walks on through and lets the door slam. You know something bothers me when I write a song about it. This one sounds something like the Gummy Bears theme song, but not really. "Slam that door! Slam it really hard Slam that door -- slam it! Hard!" So it goes. I should probably be concerned with my obsession with fixing everything that seems to be broken -- people or otherwise. feeling: :  contemplative
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