Ubuntu

Jonny has been working with Ubuntu. He was trying to get Jesse to have a computer with internet.

Last week Angelina called on 12/7. She said strawberry's were getting expensive. She needed a good physical therapist. The cord came in the mail. Lorraine had a 1 hour concert. Alberta's practice was over at 5 PM.

Jonny just had lunch a few minutes ago. He is cleaning the VASE database at work. Jonny is up to page 68 of Patriot Games. Over the weekend he watched SNL. Angelina and Jonny watched Law and Order and Criminal Minds.

Jonny helped Lorraine with studying the parsha of ShecLach. This is preparing for her Bat Mitzvah. They talk about Tzit Tzit in this parsha.

Monday

How can Jonny get more motivation to work at work? He took a nap and is ready for another one. He doesn't seem to have the stamina he once had.

Today Jonny listened to the parsha vayigash.

Over the weekend Jonny made an awesome bagel sandwich and then he made the same one for his daughter Alberta.

The family has been pretty negligent in lighting candles. They made latkes last night but didn't light them. Also on Sunday Jonny talked to his father. Alberta talked too. Lorraine skipped Sunday school. Jonny did cleaning most of the weekend, using his new hand held steam cleaner. He has been having a good time with linux on the dell laptop.

Jonny is on page 32 of Patriot Games. He read The Hunt For Red October and it was a decent book.

Only when the books are done

Is it true that Jonny only posts when he finishes a book? Jonny finished a book. He finished reading Night Judgement at Sinos by Jack Higgins. He thought it was a good read. The 289 page book was set in the sea near Greece and Turkey during the 1960's. But since the book was written in the 1970's the author tried to make it seem it was modern times.

Over the weekend before Thanksgiving, Jonny watched a movie. He saw a movie based on a Hemingway book by the same title. The 83 minute movie was called A Farewell to Arms. This is from Jonny's DVD collection. He brought it on the trip.

Right now Jonny is sleeping listening for the second time this week to Mikietz. The Hebrew word for prison is bora. At one point Yosef interrupts paro. This is because he feels he must give G-d credit for the dream interpretation. In the parsha Yosef says you will remember me. His mistake was to not trust in Hashem. It was a small deber. Apparently deber is another word for mistake?

Thursday

Last Thursday it was Veteran's Day. Jonny called his mom on their cell phone. Kristina and Wendell share one cell phone. Jonny's dad as it turned out had the day off. But not his mom. Kristina said, "call Dad he's home I'm busy at work". So that is what he did. They made plans for Alberta to come see them in February.

Jonny listened to the parsha of Vayislach two times this week. He took the quiz and got a 7 out of 10 on the first try. He might try again today.

Today Jonny might take a nap. Or Jonny might go to the bar with Penny's data entry person. Ryan had said they could go on Thursday which is today.

He just discovered that he ran out of dental floss yesterday.

Jonny is now on page 286 of Wikinomics. It would be nice if Lorraine would pick out a book. Jesse said he picked out a book. Unfortunately he picked a kid's book, from the Charlie Bone series.

Monday

This was a depressing weekend. Angelina got no cars to park for the football game over the weekend. It was a good game too. But Jonny slept in bed while his wife watched the game. He fell in and out of consciousness as the score sky rocketed. Angelina had to call her father to ask her the overtime rules work. Thomas told her that they start on the 25 yard line. And that explained the ease at which they scored.

Jonny is up to page 178 of Wikinomics. He is still reading Rachel & Leah. He renewed both books online. They were due November 15 and now they are due December 15. Jonny also returned Drowning Ruth. It is an amazing beautiful day outside.

This week's parsha is Vayeitzei. Yacovmade the maariv prayer. The 12 stones fought to be the one Yacov laid his head on. He slept for the first time in 14 years.

The other depressing thing that happened over the weekend was that Annabella Sciorra, Lyman Ward and the rest of the family will be moving. Lorraine will miss her friend. Jonny and Angelina will also miss Lyman. So many people come and go in people's lives.

The third thing that wasdepressing has already been reveresed. Angelina has discovered that HGTV and the Food Network were taken off her TV. Well they are back now.

Wednesday

Beverly isn't here today.

This week's chumash is Toldos. Avraham went back to Hagar who is now Keturah. Ishmal did teshuvah. This parsha continues where the last one left off. Yitzak also had two children. One was good and one as a rosha. Both Yitzak and Rivkah prayed for them to have childen. Rivkah was so good even though all the people sh grew up with were bad. Hashem listened to Yitzak's prayers because he was the son of a tzadik. Yitzak loves Esau. He know that yacov is the good one. A tzadki had the right to trick a rosha to get the sefer torah back. That is why Yitzak agreed with the trickery of Esau.

It is now 10 AM. Jonny got to work on time. He fell asleep. Then he got up and brushed his teeth and flossed his teeth. Next he irrigated his nose. He put hair gel in his hair. Jonny shaved. Now it is time to clean the VASE database. Jonny puts in requests to the help desk and they change the data. An example is "
For FK_key 117036 remove pk_pfc 76185 reset pfc_default to 0 for pk_pfc 174512 remove pk_pfc 174513"

Thursday

Angelina called on 10/25/2010. And here is what she said. "The bank is slow." Jonny wrote down that he forgot his chapstick. Later on he wrote down "mortgage". Apparently Angelina was asking about the mortgage and the bank was slow to give her an answer about the mortgage. Then she said "cats are fighting" and she went on to tell Jonny that "dog digging".

Earlier that day Jonny and Angelina went to the credit union. Jonny signed the papers for the new loan. It is $397 per month for 5 years. It will pay off $21,000 in debt.

This week is the parsha chaya sara. Some people say that the akada killed sara. Other questions from this week's reading are, "Why did Eliazer swear instead of yitzak?

Later on Jonny realized that Angelina told him there is wind and trees are falling.

On 10/26/2010 Jonny cleaned his bathroom of Hotel Hilton. But he forgot to put hair gel in his hair before heading to work. Then he realized he needed cleaning supplies. So he wrote a note to the janitor to give him more cleaning supplies.

Also on that day he missed Lorraine's doctor appointment. The appointment was at the Hotel California, so Jonny could have easily gone to it. But the night before Lorraine was crying, "Dad you simply can't go to my appointment, I don't need two moms."

Later that day Angelina called the help desk for the school. The computers for her class were all messed up. The culprit it turns out is Windows 7.

Thursday

Jonny listened to the parsha again this week. Vayer Vale Hashem. How do we know Hashem appeared to Avram? Hashem after alov. Hashem gave Avram the Schena. Avram was sick. How did he run out? Arabs why? Any guest is a good guest. Who is lunt? Sara denied laughing. Why did Hashem tell Avram that he was going to destroy Sedom? Amidis Hadin is judgement. Dust and ashes. Ashes because of Nimrod. Dust was never anything. Ashes was once something.

Last night Jesse's bed was not made. But Jonny slept in it anyway. He had to because Jesse ot scared in the middle of the night. Then at 4 AM Jonny had to let the dog out and feed her.

Jonny is on page 45 of Wikinomics.

Tuesday night he had to pick Alberta up at a soccer game.

Today Jonny is going to the Red Hawk for some beer. He will leave early for this privilege.

Wednesday

Angelina is still negotiating with the credit union for the debt consolidation loan. The terms are 5.75%, 5 years and 429 per month payments. The rate varies and two debts will be paid off.

Yesterday Jonny listend to the parsha discussion of the week. This week's parsha is vayera. It has to do with and Hashem appeared. In the story Avram is visited by angels while he is recovering from the brit milah. This happened on the third day. His house has four doors. Sara was able to have a baby and so was other children started having the ability to have children.

Jonny pitched the book Drowning Ruth. Now he is on page 15 of Wikinomics. Last night Angelina and Jonny watched Criminal Minds. Earlier Jonny was on the couch falling asleep watching MNF. And the Alberta called. The number shows up on the TV screen. Then Jonny went back to sleep. 20 minutes later, will you go pick her up. She was at the HS watching a varsity soccer game.

Right now Jonny is feeling really sleepy. Babs keeps waking up at 3AM. Jesse wet his bed and that means tons of laundry and making the bed later on tonight.

Monday

Mondays aren't the best days for working people.

Jonny is taking a break from the madness.

Earlier today he had Rob's staff meeting. Lea wasn't there. Jonny had to look it up too. He forgot his iron key, but the blog helped recall who she was. Lea wasn't in the more recent fake names post but she was in the 2007 one. Interesting...

Last week Jonny listened to Noach again for the parsha of the week. Here is what he learned the second time around in the same week. Something put the decison for a flood punishment over the top. It was the gisel of stealing. This was because it was the opposite of being good and righteous to people. For some reason Noach was born cirumcised. Even Kosher animals came on the arc. Why is this possible. 7 pairs of the kosher animals were brought and 2 of the not kosher animals. The Torah makes a big distinction between kosher and not kosher. In Hebrew the word for kosher is Tor or literally clean. For not kosher it is Tomay. Yet in this particular parsha the Torah uses the opposite of kosher instead of just saying Tomay or literally dirty. So it is as if the Torah says you will eat clean animals and not eat dirty animals. And in this parsha the Torah says you will save 7 pairs of clean animals and 1 pair of not clean animals. The rabbis attribute this to the harsher version of dirty is saved for Parsha Emor and the less harsh version for instructions to Noach. The harsher version would have been to say you will save 7 pairs of clean animals and 1 pair of dirty animals. Why does it say it that way?

In other news, Michigan lost to Michigan State in a big football game.

Wednesday

Jonny is on page 488 of The Vendetta Defense.

This was probably written last year here it is again. This week is the parsha of Noach. Really Noach should have had the mable on him too. What did Noach do wrong to nme the mable after him? Noach didn't pray for his generation. Compared to other generations he was nothing. Taking care of the animals was Noach's punishment. One time Noach didn't feed the lions at the right time.

Angelina's biggest concern right now is that she isn't spending money on costumes for the kids.

She got Jonny a free oil change. So now the Altima doesn't need an oil change until 103,000 or 12/3. They put 2 months on the sticker or 3750 miles. So realistically the car has about 99,250 miles on it.

Wednesday

Jonny spent 32 minutes talking with Kristina today. He felt guilty it had been 10 days since his last conversation with his mother. VASE is completely stuck. Jonny is up to page 144 of The Vendetta Defense. Last night he did his abs exercises. They had chicken on the grill. Jonny has been training this new employee all week. Now his back hurts. Yesterday he listened to Vzot Haberach. Moses buried himself. This is the last parsha of the year. Wendell is making stuffed cabbages for Simchat Torah. It is traditional because they look like little Torahs.

Wednesday

Today Jonny listened to Nitzavim parsha.

Tomorrow Alberta is going to visit Kristina and Wendell. Hopefully Angelina will swallow her pride and take her to the airport. She is a little bit upset with her teenage behavior.

Last night there was seldom a short break in the complaining about Alberta. Angelina took a break from her yelling at Alberta to watch Criminal Minds with Jonny.

Jonny and Jesse grew grass over the weekend. They did a little tree trimming prior to the grass planting. This was accomplished via the long handled expandable trimmer. It was done only until the compost bin was filled to capacity. Also over the weekend father and son went to Lowes to buy a belt for the mower. They begged Angelina to let them buy a fire pit. But alas the allocation of funds was forbidden. Lowes was letting the fire pit go for a pittance $79.

Jonny is closing in on the end of Exodus. He is on page 484. He wanted to finish watching the movie with Alberta last night but there wasn't enough time to do everything.

Tuesday

Jonny wrote another old diary post here. Shoot he did it again. The post options got screwed up. Either way this is a musing of Jonny's attempt at finishing his Master's degree, back in July of 1994. Angelina was upset because the school was screwing them over and making them pay every semester until the degree was finished. Jonny ended up switching advisors. The department chair became his advisor. Jonny finally finished up the degree in October of 1994. It was an abbreviated high speed thesis on ADA.

Jonny took a break before lunch and went to see Rob. Rob gave Jonny a raise. He now makes 3%more than last year. Right now he is listening to the parsha Vayelech. Jonny is up to page 444 of Exodus. Yesterday Jonny listened to Nitzavim. He rode his bike to work today.

Monday

Jonny's officemate Beverly is working in a different office. So it is quite dead in there. Jonny just cleaned the bathroom. He didn't ride his bike to work today. That is because he took Lorraine to the first day of art camp. Angelina took Jesse to his ultrasound. Zsa Zsa accompanied her. Angelina paid her back buying her a cup of coffee. Wendell told Alberta she could go to his beach house on Labor Day weekend. And Angelina said fine but first she has to clean her room. Yesterday Jesse and Jonny went for a bike ride. They went about 5 miles with the trailer bike. Jonny has been begging for that hitch for 8 months. Now they have it and it hasn't been used once. They will use it for the their up north vacation to Boyne. Jonny hasn't been reading much. His last book was Critical Care. It was kinda gross. Before that was Exodus and he didn't finish it. Jonny reserved it from the library. He also can get $7.99 off a book at Nicola's bookstore if he so chooses to do that. They send that coupon once a summer as a birthday present. Jonny has redeemed two books that way so far. Over the weekend he watched some TV. He and his wife watched several Criminal Minds episodes. They are so graphic, sometimes they have to fast forward past the gross parts. This week the parsha is Ki Sese.

Wednesday

Jonny has created another link to an old diary entry. Back then there was another story to compete with Lowe's and Home Depot. It was called Builder's Square. He was also crying over not being able to go to the Pink Floyd concert tour.

Right now Jonny is watching the rain while working.

There is a movie Scream 4 being filmed right along Jonny's bike route that he takes to and from work. He got stuck in it and watch one scene being filmed live.

Kristina sent her pictures from the weekend. They looked great.

This week's parsha is Shoftim. And that word is derived from the Hebrew word for Judges.

Babs the dog went to the vet today. They said she needs to lose some serious weight.

Monday

This week feels like a short week. That is because Jonny is going on a beach vacation. He and his son Jesse are going to his parent's beach house. It will be a lot of fun.

Last week's parsh was Eikev. That parsha has the shma prayer in it. This week is the parsa of Re'eh.

Jonny finished Jericoh's Road. It was 288 pages. He is on page 324 of Exodus. Alberta was reading it at the same time. The two of them also started watching the movie.

Jonny watched some Scrubs. Angelina and Jesse watched Criminal Minds.

Jesse got a DSI for his birthday. He is extremely happy.

Lorraine went to camp. Over the weekend the family drove 4 hours each way. They toured the camp and dropped her off. Jonny and Jesse played catch with a baseball.

Thursday

As usual Jonny is mighty busy at work.

This week is the parsha of Eikev. Last week was Va'etchanan.

As a good Jew Jonny watched part of the movie Exodus. He is also reading the book that goes with said movie. Last night Jonny dropped Alberta off at the JCC so she could attend an annual Ann Arbor event including Israeli scouts.

Jonny finished a book. More like it was a book on tape. More like it was a book on CD. The book was unlike any other John Grisham books. It wasn't about lawyers and it wasn't set in Tennessee or New Orleans or some place south. The book was called Playing for Pizza. As usual it is time to look up the AMAZON results for the said book.

In other movie news Jonny watched the movie The Conflict. It was not a Jewish movie.

Jonny painted the side of the house. This was because the fish burned. The burnt fish put soot from the grill on the siding. The fish got burnt because Angelina was depressed about not getting any classes to teach in the Fall. So they burnt the fish by mistake, they got distracted.

Over the weekend Alberta went to a two day sleepover. She called it a Shabbaton. Right before he took her they almost lost power. There have been a lot of storms this month.

Well back to work even though it is late.

Other movies Jonny seen recently are:

• The Proposal
• A Walk In The Clouds

Thursday

North of Nowhere, 322 pages. That was an awesome book says Jonny. This was the 4th book in the Alex McKnight series by Steve Hamilton. Jonny has started Exodus by Leon Uris. This is truly a Jewish book. Jonny is listening to the Chumash. This week there is a double portion of Mattos and Masei.

Yesterday Jonny, Rob and another guy had a nasty meeting with Penny.

Jonny is still waiting for Jesse's and his trip to see his parents to be finalized. Kristina and Wendell are on vacation. So they can't purchase the tickets now.

Thursday

Jonny watch a couple of Srubs episodes with Alberta late last night. Today he listened to the parsha Pinchas. This is the famous parsha where the Jew named Pinchas decides to take a spear and kill a sinner. He kills two people while they are in the middle of having sex or as the narrator calls it in Hebrew "snoose".

Jonny is waiting to hear from Wendell and Kristina about the beach trip. They are supposed to buy the plane tickets for Jesse and Jonny. They are supposed to fly
Thursday August 5 2:15-3:40 PM DTW-BWI
Sunday August 8 6:10-7:45 PM BWI-DTW

Jonny is still in between books right now. He has to go to school and work on his grades tonight after dinner. Tonight after dinner Angelina is taking Lorraine to her softball game.