I am like unto a reliable dog-geyser person. Except when I'm not, but that's not very often.

And surely there will be back-up cameras, right, LAistas?

I'm not a big picture taker, I don't own a camera, I don't think. I sometimes grab those disposable ones for pics. Nilly keeps kicking herself for not taking any with Tim. I keep kicking myself for not reminding her. My memory is good. Now she is curled up on the couch, fast asleep, and I'm a bit wired.

Plans for tomorrow involve sleeping late, going for a walk, and more talking and hanging out.

I may be the most boring hostess, EVAH.

I may be the most boring hostess, EVAH.

More likely you have a fine-tuned intuitive grasp of your guests needs and desires, and graciously provide the time and space for her to acclimate to a foreign country and meeting a gaggle of new people. A scenario, while fun and much looked-forward to, fraught with tension and some apprehension. So, downtime is good.

I am the Jet Lag host. Wee Sleepy Nilly.

And this week's Sabbath host, as well.

Allyson, when you check in, make sure you check your email.

Deena, fabtasterrific! I'll have to shuffle up to work to access my email, but I'll do it in a couple of hours.

I can kind of, just barely, tolerate the paucity of pictures so far. However, I must give advance warning to ND that, what with his previously demonstrated level of both plugged-in and wireless wiredness, I'm expecting complete documentary evidence of the trip north, either streaming realtime video and audio or at the very least a frequently updated slide show. It being Nilly, every 17 seconds should be perfect.

are we doing strictly kosher foods for the Nilly-fest, or might there be separate kosher and non-kosher foods?

I'd say separate kosher and non kosher foods. I'm aiming to keep things simple, though. I probably won't cook anything.

I can kind of, just barely, tolerate the paucity of pictures so far. However, I must give advance warning to ND that, what with his previously demonstrated level of both plugged-in and wireless wiredness, I'm expecting complete documentary evidence of the trip north, either streaming realtime video and audio or at the very least a frequently updated slide show. It being Nilly, every 17 seconds should be perfect.

Well, I do have a camera phone that also has an internet hookup. If I can either work out a way to directly get the pictures on to the web or have someone as a relay point that I can email pictures to them and them have them load them to a site, I can pretty much do an instant document of the trip north.

We have a nice little Opympus digital, and it will be used. Trust me. Plus, this being Silicon Valley, damned near everyone local has some flavour of digital doodah. I think it's a law or a regulation or something. I'm as technochallenged as they're made, and even I own an MP3 player.

What precisely is the time difference between California and Israel? I know it's a honker, but I'm mentally ill-equipped for that whole counting thing.

10 hours difference, it's night there, Sabbath is ending. Nilly slept mostly through the night so her clock seems to have started adjusting to the time difference.