UGA in Triumph

UGA won a bet apparently in this image taken after the 63-3 victory by the University of Georgia over FSU in the Orange Bowl yesterday. FSU was 13-0 coming in to the game but was missing some starters because of injuries. ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... Interestingly, this is the second season (although both in 2023) in a row UGA has scored over 60 points in a bowl game. Back on Jan 9, 2023, UGA beat TCU by 65-7 in the National Championship Bowl.

A Vampy Trick finally overcome but he has another trick

About four months ago, Ann was looking for her passport and couldn't find it. Last Friday she located it in an AARP bag along with some miscellaneous material, including a $20 bill. Vampy no doubt thinks well of himself for getting it lost. ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... However, for some reason Oz lost his traveling yamulka about 2 hours before he was to leave the house for the airport on the way back to Israel. He has left this particular yamulka here before.

Another many hour mashgiach assignment

I had agreed to work on 19 July beginning 8am. I got a phone call about 10 pm on July 18. I was to come in at 530. There were multiple events honoring Israel's President Herzog. One event set for 19 July had, a week previously, been for 70 guests but it kept increasing and by 10 pm the day before the event the guest list was for 170. This event was sponsorted by AIPAC. It was about a 9 hour job. There were also other interesting things about this set of events. Various levels of security were established for the different events. The badge shown is for the second most security intensive event. Also, at one event, beef and chicken was on the menu despite this being part of the 9 days before Tisha b Av. Given that a lot of non Jews were at these events I can certainly understand doing this but I was not the decision maker on it.

Seven Hour Mashgiach Assignment

I did a 7 hour mashgiach assignment yesterday. Two things conspired to make this necessary. The first was that there was an event with a lot of moslems that needed food delivered. For some reason, the event manager decided that the halal caterers couldn't or wouldn't take care of it and so they used a kosher caterer. The second was that the fellow who was supposed to relieve me after 2 hours was getting back from an out of town trip and was badly delayed (he said by traffic but there was probably more to it). ............. ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ This was one of those days where I did work at three different venues beginning at about 730am for a combined 10 hours or so of work. This is really unusual (fortunately). I don't think I've done more than 8 hours in a day for several years.

New Coke Product

I bought this product at Moti's. It is another new version of diet coke. I advised Coke Bear that I thought it had too much caramel. Coke Bear replied that I didn't understand that this was an 'Ultimate Limited Edition' under the 'League of Legends' program (the name of the new products department). ........... Then I asked Coke Bear what happened to the 'Hone our core competencies to exceed our benchmarks' policy. ...Coke Bear responded, "I make the policy, I can interpret the policy." ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... At least it didn't have any after taste unlike a product I tested a few years ago (I think it was called "Showtime Edition". Cross posted in the Weiss Chronicles.

Vampy Welcomes Us Home with Computer Malfunction

We got home from our vacation today. Within an hour so so, my computer went to the 'prevent mistakes' mode where you have to hold down a key for about 1 second before it comes up. This prevents any kind of text based work. .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. Two quick reboots didn't do anything. So I took a short nap. When I woke up, the problem was gone. But it was annoying and now I worry it will return......................................................................................................................... UPDATE: Yesterday and this morning we were unable to get Wondrium on our TV (Roku enabled). A few minutes after I found a website to chat problems with Roku, the problem fixed itself. ........................................................................................................................... ANTHOR UPDATE: Three more Vampy inflictions - laptop color turned off (G fixed this), phone voice map guide turned off, wanton soup substituted for eggroll from Holy Chow. Ann had wanted the eggroll but she liked the soup so that didn't cause a problem. A PREDATE: I should also have given Vampy credit for making my internet connection go bad while I was ordering a Uber at the Port of Baltimore on the 19th of March after our cruise.