Thursday, July 05, 2007

Mezuzah placement with sliding doors?

So I've been researching where to place Mezuzot if you have sliding glass doors going to an enclosed backyard. I can't find anything that is decipherable and has a diagram illustrating my point... Sooooooooo... Here is my picture, and as soon as I get an answer from a proper halachic authority, I'll post it so Google can index it and the next person asking the same question won't have the same stress I am going through right now...

Wednesday, July 04, 2007

You are not my in charger!

Aaron asserting himself in the car when Ilan tried to boss him around.

Thursday, June 28, 2007

Have a blessed day...

A cashier said this to me in the BWI airport. I was really touched...

Seems like something people should say more often to each other...

Where are you from?

I just took an amazingly fun on-line quiz that gives you different pronunciation questions to guess where you are from (or where your accent is from). It NAILED me! Totally cool. Check it out yourself by clicking on the link below...

What American accent do you have? (Best version so far)

Northeastern

This could either mean an r-less NYC or Providence accent or one from Jersey which doesn't sound the same. (People in Jersey don't call their state "Joisey" in real life)

Personality Test Results

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Tuesday, June 26, 2007

I don't know how well the image above actually
appears..It was scaled down from its actual size. I used
www.myheritage.com to upload my photo and have it
figure out who I looked the most like. I'm not unhappy
with the top result, except for the fact it shows the future
of the top of my head.. .and it's shiny!!!

Alas, what's a guy to do?

Thursday, June 21, 2007

How much do I love my daughter?

Enough that I used my coveted black Apple Computer t-shirt to wipe her very runny nose this morning.... That is a lot of love!

Whipped cream shots at midnight,,,

I fell asleep on the coach after watching Southpark and was woken by a hungry Aaron at 1:00 AM. He wanted chicken, which I could not find, but then was very happy to have half of a yogurt smoothie. While he was drinking his yogurt, I unashamedly grabbed a whipped cream canister and did a shot in my mouth. He smiled and said he wanted one, so I obliged, and we went back and forth like this a few times. Then it was back to sleep for the both of us... A very nice 'Dad
Moment'.

Thursday, April 26, 2007

Programming my Avenir RC3 Bike Computer

This was really frustrating, and unnecessarily so. I think every company today that sells a device that requires some level of programming has an obligation to put its manuals online, and ensure that they are crawled and hence searchable. That does not seem to be the case with this bike computer, so at this point I'm left to my "best guess" as to how to program it.

So here goes. I visited http://www.sheldonbrown.com/cyclecomputer_calibration.html and found an excellent calibration chart for your computer, based on the size of your tire, which is exactly correct. There are six different groups of computers, and hence six different values I can punch in. My tire size is 700x23, so the choices, from Group A - F, are 81.56, 222, 210, 333, 1302, 2097. After futzing around with my bike computer for a long time, I learned that if you hold the right button down while the computer is on the screen showing the time, you can program the time. If you hold it down while it is on the odometer, you can program the wheel size. Since it had four digits, and the first was a 2 (did this mean it was suggested?) Entered the 2097 number. I won't know for sure if this is accurate until I either find my manual (which is unlikely since the computer is many years old), or ride along side somebody with a properly calibrated computer...

OK, enough for now. It would have been less stress to buy a new bike computer, with directions in the box and on-line.

Thursday, April 05, 2007

What's inside of chicken?

So Ilan was eating a chicken nugget the other day and laughed because he finally figured out what's inside of chicken... DEAD CHICKENS! I had long-suspected that kids don't understand that something called chicken might actually in fact be chicken. Otherwise you could call that nugget a "Happy Nugget" and they wouldn't know the difference. I'm pretty sure they don't yet know or understand that "beef" and especially "salami" actually comes from a cow. I'll let them learn that life lesson in due time...

Wednesday, April 04, 2007

It's not mouses, it's mices...

Aaron was telling me a story about a mouse, and then mouses. I said "if you have more than one mouse, it's not mouses, it's mice." So then his story changed to talk about mices. Makes sense to me. Too cute to bother correcting again. We played miniature golf tonight. I was going to take just Aaron out, but his brother wanted to go and I asked Aaron if it was OK, since otherwise it was supposed to be me and him. He said "yes", because frankly he's one of the sweetest children in the world, and maybe was uncomfortable saying no. I'll take him out for something alone another day. Anyway, while playing miniature golf he was completely in his own world. Zoned out worse than I get. I'm waiting one day for the diagnosis of extreme ADD (or whatever it's going to be called then). I actually suspect one day the doctors will recommend putting him on something to help him focus. We're holding him back a year, which every day I'm more and more happy with as a decision.... But alas, on to a different story...