Good Vuch Again

10:49 PM - I just got an email alert that I got a comment on a post about personality types of bloggers. Interesting, considering the post is five years old.

10:56 PM - I just became aware of an Internet juggling phenomenon named Chris Bliss. I read about him performing at a John Lennon memorial concert. I was thinking of linking to him, but when I saw his juggling I wasn't blown away. Then I saw he does stand-up, and his routines were pretty good. He said that there's a new vehicle where you tell it where you want to go and it takes you there - it reminds him of an old vehicle...the bus. He read that a 96 year old man just married a 95 year old woman. He gives it five years tops.

10:59 PM - Going to go surf TV with dad.

11:59 plus - Till the day my mother passed away she was 21 plus. In a similar vein I feel that however deep into the morning it goes on Saturday night - it's Saturday night plus...

Recently I heard the Director of Operations of an Orthodox organization talking about how after rabbinic meetings he has a secretary clean up the stuff left over from the food the rabbis ate and drank. He said that the secretary too umbrage with this chore, but he felt it was appropriate for her to clean up. he added that if they were great tzadikim the rabbis would clean up after themselves - but that's just not human nature. That made me sad. I contrasted it in my head with a school principal who always reminds his students to clean up after themselves, adding that it's no-one's job but their own. Here here. Sadly, this is another example of there only being people issues, but adults like to make things into kid/student issues. Rabbi Abraham Twerski uses the example of monitoring/blocking TV for kids and asks why are those things that aren't OK for kids OK for adults? And why should they accept that it's not OK for them if they see that you find it fine for you?

I feel like Vayeitzei has slipped away. I reread but didn't link to my favorite old DT of mine (till now) - about how for Yaakov the leaving and going were both important. I saw a YCQ newsletter tonight in which a Rabbi Landsman cited this thought from the Beis HaLevi. His take was that we should try in every decision we make to let go of one thing and choose something else to think it through thoroughly. We should always ask if the letting go is really what we want and are ready to do; likewise regarding the new choice. If we aren't at peace with both we may shake off the new place we went to and run back to the old one.