Cooking: All of the last list and 24 pieces of Salmon (great grilling Yoni)

Wishing: Every Seder night should go as well.

Spending $2K on Noam's CRV, it has got 100K miles on it!

Watching: Absolutely nothing

Cooking: Passover, two briskets, pears in anise and sugar, Chopped liver.

Enjoying: Having all 3 boys in the house this evening

Reading: Seigfried, Harry Mulisch

Watching: Alice in wonderland 3D, very appealing.

Reading: Terry Prachett equal rites first of the witches novels.

Cooking: Alton Brown steak, red cabbage and pepper coleslaw

Watching: Rome series 1, a little revision for the summer BluRay is wasted on us as we originally saw it in HD anyway.

Lost: Bidding for the whole Discworld series on eBay, funnily when it sold it was close to teh Amazon price for the books.


Thinking: Adam Smith, JSM and Utilitarianism.

Cooking: Beer battered cod and chips, excellent.

Reading: The checklist manifesto, much better after page 50.

Watching: The final episode of the wire, it has been a long and very stimulating journey

Ordering: The DVD of "Breaking the mould", the new film from the BBC about the discovery of penicillin.

Reading: The Checklist, Atul Gawande. a really a long essay once you've got the point.
However, the new edition of the NYRB has a great review by my hero, Jonathan Israel of Lisa Jardin's book about the glorious revolution of 1688. I thought very little of the book and I found it was just barely readable. Israel has a similar opinion.

Cooking: Warm soup and fresh rolls to go with the near freezing weather.

Watching Disc 3 (of 4) of season 5 of the Wire

Thinking: How to help our unmatched students

Buying: Tables for Seder night

Cooking: Spaghetti squash with Marinara sauce veal schnitzel. Alton Brown steaks with coleslaw with poppy seed dressing (home made and cooked).

Watching: State of Play

Reading: The checklist

Listening: Audiobook, Wolf Hall.

Cleaning: Rotting leaves off the pool cover ready for spring opening.
Fixing: all the small issues with the irrigation system.

Watching: Nothing

Reading: My Jesus year, Benjamin Cohen searches for Jewish meaning by visiting churches in Georgia.

Cooking: Mexican chicken with stir fried zucchini.

Working: Getting students through the scramble unscathed, as brutal as ever, though this year at  least the faxes went through.

Cooking: Salmon fillets (outdoor grill), Spaghetti squash and salad. desert; pears with anise.

Watching: Part one of "The Pacific"

Listening: Philip Glass

Reading: Rome and Jerusalem.Know I understand how Hellenization was important long after Greece ceased to be important.

Working: Cleaning the yard ready for spring.
Germinating: Peas

Cooking: Alton Brown steaks, need to be warmed very slightly in the microwave first, 5 minutes each side in the oven.

Dining:  Cathay Palace

Reading: The lost continent (Discworld series) Rome and Jerusalem

Attending: Synagogue, with Judy, Gil,  Yoni and Daci

Watching: Season 3 "The Tudors"

Reading: Rome and Jerusalem: and the next book in the discworld series.

Cooking: Veal Marsala, 3 pea stir fry andmashed potatoes

Watching: Tudors series 3.

Thinking: How many holes in my knowledge of history

Reading: Finished "The renaissance in Italy" starting "Rome and Jerusalem"

Eating: Crap from Wendy's (OK salad but it is still crap)


Listening: Keren Ann (in French, even though she is Dutch/Israeli)

Thinking: How the hell are we going to feed 25 on Passover

Cooking: Butternut and apple soup; flank steak with red onion marmalade; minestrone. Pound cake with poppy seeds (thanks Daci).

Watching: Doc Martin 4th series (okay but nowhere near as good as the earlier shows.

Planting: Vegetable garden (too early, I'll be doing this again after the last frost).

Thinking: About how Jews pray after reading a review on the new Sacks Siddur.

Reading: Londonstani ( poor) but an interesting sub-culture.

Cooking: No supper for me only bread

Watching: Gil's Basketball team win the championship, not only did he get off the bench but he scored.

Thinking: How slowly the legal process moves

Cooking: Roast Butternut squash...excellent with Weiner Schnitzel
Reading: Petrach (well about Petrach)

Watching: Nothing!

Thinking: About the law

Cooking: Alton Brown steak (I have now understood the importance of warming everything throughly first, the steak at room temp. and everything else at 500 F.

Reading: The renaissance and londonstani (written partially in cellphone language.

Watching: Nothing!

Listening: Philip Glass