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Lanna and Nancella at a Heebster Purim party
March 13, 2006April 24, 2025Events and panels, Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous (personal), Uncategorized

A Heebster Purim

Fun, fun, fun, Judaism is cool! What other religion tells you to get drunk, so drunk you can’t tell the difference between Haman (bad guy) and Mordechai (good guy)? In honor of Purim, Nancella, Scott, and I went to American Schmidol at the Bowery Ballroom. […]

May 16, 2005February 14, 2025Miscellaneous (personal)

Vacation — Pt. 3 — Athens

I know the origin of the saying, “it’s all Greek to me.” Or is the saying, “it looks “it sounds like Greek? The Greek alphabet is indecipherable at first glance. I took a 3-hour bus ride from the port of Patras to Athens. We drove […]

May 16, 2005February 14, 2025Miscellaneous (personal)

Vacation — Pt. 2 — Ferry

As expected, I took a ferry from Venice to Greece, but that is about the only part of my ferry ride that went as planned. I got to Venice well enough. I got to Venice and it was pouring. I decided that I had to […]

May 16, 2005February 14, 2025Miscellaneous (personal)

Vacation — Pt. 1 — Italy

Since I hadn’t gone to Europe in years, this counts as an “event”. I left work early and caught a flight out of JFK. The plane ride was painful. I had a middle seat and the lady sitting to my left was very fat. After […]

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