Nilly and Shir, Thank you for updates. I am so sorry that you have to experience any of this. Many thoughts of safety to you both.
Dawn: Any luck? Willow: If you define luck as the absence of success--plenty.
'Touched'
Natter 62: The 62nd Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Kat - Dec 28, 2008 2:55:45 am PST #8198 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Nilly - Dec 28, 2008 3:03:58 am PST #8199 of 10002
Swouncing
javachik, I marked your link. Even only from your description, it reads like such a lovely story, over such a difficult background.
safe/secured rooms
Shir, sorry, I can't help you with a better translation for these words. It's pretty literal, IMHO.
Shir - Dec 28, 2008 3:11:30 am PST #8200 of 10002
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
safe/secured rooms
I checked the Home Front Command site - they call it secure space.
Their name sounds very wrong in English.
Shir - Dec 28, 2008 3:14:57 am PST #8201 of 10002
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Also in "things that are wrong": Nilly, the "Case Lead" name - I still can't get over it.
I laughed at first. Now it just feels like they're violating my favorite holiday. Not that it felt like one the past couple of days.
Nilly - Dec 28, 2008 3:21:48 am PST #8202 of 10002
Swouncing
Their name sounds very wrong in English.
I'll stick to "secure room", if that's OK with you, thank you very much.
"Case Lead"
For the non-Hebrew-speakers and non-Hebrew-Hanukkah-songs-singers among us, the "cast lead" name is taken from a children's Hanukkah song, about the things prepared for the holiday - the mom makes latkes, the dad brings a dreidle (sp?) made of cast lead, and so forth.
And, yes, it's connecting two things that really shouldn't go together.
Shir - Dec 28, 2008 3:26:05 am PST #8203 of 10002
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
I'll stick to "secure room", if that's OK with you, thank you very much.
Oh, I meant the Home Front Command.
Case Lead
Should be Cast Lead. My bad.
Nilly - Dec 28, 2008 3:29:22 am PST #8204 of 10002
Swouncing
Home Front Command.
Well, the name is a sort of contradiction in and of itself in Hebrew, too - the front at the back? How can you call it?
Shir - Dec 28, 2008 3:39:29 am PST #8205 of 10002
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Rear Command...?
Dunno.
Update: Syria stopped the peace talks with Israel. One news source saying hospitals in the north are getting ready... to what?
Barb - Dec 28, 2008 4:08:15 am PST #8206 of 10002
“Not dead yet!”
Oy. Sending much peace and calm ~ma for Nilly and Shir.
That's all I got, really, other than the fact that being in the sheltering arms of the Buffistas, I tend to forget how stupid and reckless the rest of the world is.
Cashmere - Dec 28, 2008 4:10:30 am PST #8207 of 10002
Now tagless for your comfort.
Nilly, I'm hoping for a Hanukkah miracle and some peace over there soon. If not peace, I'll settle for no more people dying in the immediate future.
Safet~ma for your sister, Shir.