Thursday night I got a half-bottle of sake, because as I was shopping in H Mart I saw the bottles of the milky stuff and decided I really wanted one. I drank it just before bed and it actually messed up my sleep. The stuff has a lot of sugar, or carbohydrates at least, in it and I thought that might be why.
Last night did the things I had to do and went to the Friday night service. Before the service I talked with one of the ladies about membership and she mentioned paying monthly. The service went well, and it's fun being able to read the Hebrew up on the screens. I didn't really eat any of the food after the service, as I found myself wanting a coffee more, and also I got one of those awful scratches in my throat and tried to cough it out, and ended up taking a 2nd one of the little cups of wine and gargling with it before swallowing it, which took care of the scratch. I finished my coffee and called it a night then.
On the way back I felt like going to TAK Market and getting some Guinness, which I did. Again the idea was that I'd sleep well and get to sleep earlier and thus get up earlier. That sure backfired. The stuff didn't really give me that much of a buzz and my sleep was all messed up. I'm giving up at this point.
I woke up around noon, and got up - maybe dozed a bit more - at almost 3. I read a book of Israeli stories originally published in 1962 and frankly, pretty Meh. And just got barely started on a Primo Levi book, not the one I really want to read which is the one where I'd freed from Auschwitz and spends the next 5 years getting back to Italy, but one that's a fictionalize account of a couple of guys in the last part of the war and the first few chaotic postwar years that is probably actually more truth than fiction.
I also got to thinking about the lady who's paying her membership monthly. My plan, I told her, is to just write one big check at the start of the fiscal year which I just need to find out is either June or July first, since everyone seems to have a different fiscal year. It's July, she told me. That's where our little exchange ended, but this has got me thinking.
July's pretty far off, and "Participation in Jewish life" may only count, officially, from when I become a member. And, since I need a check with my name printed on it to pay the library to process my passport, I now have 60 checks, with my name right on them. Enough for 5 years and I sure won't be around here another 5 years. So I could pay monthly and I can start up right away. I'd started going to the temple regularly starting last Purim, and here I am, this Purim, and will be an actual member.
I did a practice session, so that's good too.
In Reich news, the BBC was discussing the US annexing Greenland as if it's all over except the ink drying, and the bloviating orange blimp got his airtime. They love him! Canada and Mexico are going through with tariffs of their own, and actually enforcing laws that are on the books already as far as gringos visiting their countries. Good for them!
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