Some of the interceptors' fragments in Jerusalem today hit East Jerusalem, near the National Library, and in the Old City as well - Church of Holy Sepulchre and the yard in Temple Mount. That's coming after the weekend, when a warhead hit a building in my mom's neighborhood.

I love this city so much. I chose it as a home 20 years ago. It's hardcore, insane, wonderful and weird all at once. And there's always good food, and something to break your heart and something to restore your faith. I cannot begin to imagine the havoc in the Old City if anything serious happens. You do not mess with an axis mundi - especially this one - whether you believe in a god or not.

(just so we are clear, "fragments" can be anything from the size of a small ball to a small car of burning metal containing explosives).

Would that some fragments landed on the ill considered war mongers and autocrats.

I'm sorry, Shir. It must be so stressful and sad.

I'm so sorry Shir that you are having to go through all of this.

Sending love, Shir.

Thanks. I am still doing OK, especially compared to many others here, but really - some places here are under a status quo for a reason (to prevent something much much worse). The immovable ladder alone... [link]

The immovable ladder alone... [link]

I did not know the lore of the ladder!

It's going to be a record high of 83 in SF today.

I found a green t-shirt and green cords to wear. So the odds of me being pinched went from 0.0% to -67.00%.

I gather from the news that some of you are getting snow blasted, which always seems like a dirty trick so close to the spring equinox.

Matilda is on break this week and we have breakfast plans for Thursday, and I'm looking forward to that.

The immovable ladder alone... [link]

And I get to check off my learn something new every day requirement

It's going to be a record high of 83 in SF today.

We were chilly today! Only 68 when I went to the dog park. I was only wearing a T-shirt, while the other pet parents were in jackets and sweatshirts. We are wimpy when it comes to temperature.

Having a chill day. Corned beef and cabbage in the slow cooker. We didn't go anywhere this year for our anniversary as we both have been so hectic and overwhelmed that we just wanted to stay home and maybe watch one of the movies we haven't seen from those nominated, which would be all of them.

Completely forgot it was the 17th, but I wouldn't have done anything about it, so no worries there.

Just discussed with DH that the Instant Pot was the best investment in a kitchen appliance that we ever made. It has saved me from "needing" to order food (because we haven't been shopping in a while) more times than I can count as long as I have at least part of a bag of frozen chicken breasts from Aldi or Lidl, which I always do, and some random jarred or canned sauce or something lying around. And let us not forget the perfect "boiled" eggs (thank you, Laura)! It's a keeper, I tell you what.

Dag, I was looking at a list of Oscar winners over the last 20 years and there was one I'd never even heard of.

I mean, there were a bunch I haven't seen because I'm usually not a big fan of self serious Oscar-baity prestige movies because my tastes are weirder than that. But I knew all the other titles and what they were about even if I hadn't seen them.

My brain somehow skipped over 2022 winner Coda. Admittedly we were very busy in March of 2022 buying the house but still keeping track of pop culture is basically what my brain does. At the very least I have the overview. But nope. Nothing on Coda.

A clear case of accelerating old fartism.

Dipping in after catching up on 300 or so posts because I'm at my biweekly coffeehouse writing meetup. Having finished my first goal, 500 words on a short story I'm trying to finish for a submission call that closes 3/31, I'm procrastinating starting on my next goal, which is finishing the draft of the sermon I'm preaching this Sunday.

We're all mostly OK, except Dylan is still looking for work because the market is such a nightmare right now if you're a 50-something manager in a tech field (UX Design, to be specific). He's up to 208 applications, last I checked. When he hit 206 I joked that he'd just passed my childhood area code and hit our current one, so now we hope and pray we don't get anywhere near HIS childhood one, which is 918. Alex just has one more quarter left before he'll have his Associate's in Fine Arts, and he wants to get some work experience before going for his BFA. He'll be 22 next month! I hope he can actually find something at least arts-adjacent. I told him there's nothing wrong with having a mundane day job and doing your art outside of work (Exhibit A, me), but he's worried he wouldn't have the time and focus he needs to do both. Which I am also Exhibit A for, more often than I'd like.

Speaking of, this sermon won't write itself...