Today’s good is butterflies or, more precisely, the noise that butterflies make. It would be so cool to hear this in person but I’m glad that at least I can watch it on YouTube.
Finding the Good: Taste
With a little bit of time and a few ingredients, I made my own hummus. I am immensely pleased that I can taste and enjoy good foods. That probably won’t always be the case but today, chickpeas, sesame seeds, olive oil, garlic, and salt have delighted me. In case you are curious, here is my […]
Finding the Good: Healing
I took a long bike ride and finished with sore knees. Maybe I’m not 18 years old any longer. All I had to do was give my body some time and my knees feel better. Magic! Today I am grateful for a body which heals itself, most of the time and from most injuries. Why […]
Finding the Good: Cool Mornings
August was stupidly hot here in Saint Louis. I spent almost the entire month either in my home with the windows closed and the air conditioning on, or outside sweating rivers. This morning, it is 61 degrees outside, the windows are open, and there is a gentle breeze blowing past my bare feet as I […]
Finding the Good: Family
Today I am grateful for my family. I have a wife, sons, grandchildren, daughters and sons in law, and cousins. I have had parents, step-parents, grandparents, ancestors, and a brother; may their souls all be for blessings. We get along well, which is not to say that we have not had our moments ?, but […]
A Livestreaming Year
Rosh Hashanah begins tomorrow at sundown. For the second year, Candy and I will livestream the high holy day services for our congregation, United Hebrew Congregation in Saint Louis, MO. But oh what a difference from last year! Then, Candy and I were scrambling as hard as we could to broadcast something good in the […]
154 Miles Biking the Katy Trail
What do you do when you want to travel, want to avoid COVID-19, and have a bicycle? How about trying a four-day bike tour? Never mind that I had never done a bike tour. Never mind that I am 63 years old. Never mind that I had not camped much in decades. Never mind that […]
500 Miles on My Trek Verve+ 2
Lord I’m one, Lord I’m two, Lord I’m three, Lord I’m four,Lord I’m 500 miles from my home.500 miles, 500 miles, 500 miles, 500 milesLord I’m five hundred miles from my home. Traditional On Sunday morning, I passed 500 miles on my new Trek Verve+ 2 bike. I guess that means it is no longer […]
Dear Ford… About the Maverick
Dear Ford, The Maverick is a fine car, like this. I owned one so I know. Except for that time when it trashed a water pump and I had to nurse it home from Michigan to Indiana at 2:00am and I missed a midterm because my car wouldn’t get me back to Ann Arbor, it […]
Trek Verve+ 2 Electric Bicycle
I took the plunge and bought an electric bicycle a/k/a e-bike and holy cow am I delighted. I had forgotten how much I enjoy being outside on a bike. Having an electric motor to help me up the hills vanquishes all of the pain so all I have now is the fun and the aerobic […]
Translate Biblical Hebrew to English
When I am in my weekly Torah study class, I often find myself wondering, “That’s what the English says but what does the original Hebrew say?” As a guy who does not read or speak Hebrew, here is how I figure it out. The built-in Hebrew dictionary at sefaria.org makes it easy to translate biblical […]
You Pay $0.00
My wife is on Medicare and had cataract surgery. We just got the statement of benefits for the first eye. Total you pay: $0.00 Yay socialized medicine!
The Easy Way to Open a Brazil Nut
Opening a Brazil nut is easy. Here is Scarlet to show you how. https://photos.smugmug.com/Animals/Scarlet-Macaw/i-Qhsnq5q/0/89718a80/640/PXL_20201022_162433229~3-640.mp4
How to Safely Visit Friends Indoors
Warm weather has let us keep in touch with family and friends by visiting outdoors. If you are like me, the time spent in parks and on patios has been heaven sent. But with cold weather coming, what do we do now? Maintaining six feet of social distance is good advice for some situations but […]
Coffee Spice
Once upon a time, Rabbi James Stone Goodman introduced me to Turkish coffee in which he infused some cardamom. In today’s vernacular, OMG was that good! A few months later, I was listening to the Fiddler on the Roof soundtrack and wondered what coffee was like in eastern Europe and Russia back in the day. […]
Installing rdiff-backup 2.x on Synology DS218+ Diskstation
Rdiff-backup is a great backup program. It is very easy to install it on a Synology NAS box like the Synology DS218+ Diskstation. You need just a couple of things: ssh access enabled on your Diskstation an internet connection Do the following Log into the Synology web UI. Use the Package Center to install the […]
Know the Risk of Catching Covid-19 in Restaurants, Workplaces, Outdoors, Etc.
This blog post, by microbiologist Erin Bromage, just appeared in my inbox. The author goes into detail, in plain English, about how Covid-19 infection happens and how likely it is to occur in a variety of environments, including restaurants, sanctuaries, stores, and outdoors. The Risks – Know Them – Avoid Them Here is a typical […]
My First Snap: DevOperator
I have published my first Snap in the Snap Store. DevOperator is a bundle of several tools used to manage applications and Kubenetes clusters inside AWS. This version includes: Ansible AVH git flow AWS CLI aws-iam-authenticator eksctl kubectl mfa & assume-role Terraform tf It’s a red letter day!
Tow Bar Attachment for Bede BD-4C
My FBO, St. Charles Flying Service, offers a wonderful service. They will put my airplane back in the hangar for me after fueling it. It seems like a little thing but it’s nice. There was only one tiny little detail which prevented me from taking them up on it: none of the attachments on their […]
Oatmeal Recipe
One of the highlights of my week is Torah study at United Hebrew Congregation on Saturday morning. Ostensibly, it starts at 9:00am but many of us grey-haired geezers show up 30 minutes early (or more!) to make oatmeal and waffles and schmooze over breakfast and coffee. The synagogue staff might have tried to dissuade us […]
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