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· 10 Elul 5781 (Wednesday 18 August 2021) · 1 minute to read

Welp guess we’re starting today off with an unscheduled computer restart because unscheduled stand-by happened at some point during the night.

I hate when this happens.

Today promises to be very rainy and so very humid. I’ll be glad when August’s over and we get to the part of September when things start to cool down because I’m totally over summer at this point.

Sleep schedule absolutely hosed. I’ll get it back on track eventually I guess.

Things are also insanely busy around here and so I’m looking forward to the end of November when we start to end work things for the year because John and I have pretty much put our feet down and said we’re getting some sort of vacation this year even if that means vacationing in place.

State College

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Amanda CAARSON

· 1 Elul 5781 (Monday 9 August 2021) · 2 minutes to read

#BlogElul Day 1 and #Blogboost day 2: Decide.

Most years, Elul is my favorite time of year, and at the beginning at least I usually have a plan with everything laid out as to how i’ll go through the month. This year I haven’t done that, because of how insane last year turned out to be. As <a href="https://www.adatosystems.com/2021/08/08/blogelul-day-zero/">AdatoSystems</a> puts it: <blockquote>For many of us, myself included, last year was a lot. Too much, in fact. Too much to keep up with. Too much to process. Too much to add one more thing.</blockquote>

And so I ended up at Rosh Hashanah feeling very unprepared.

This year, I’m doing things a bit differently. The only plans are to write these posts, and for everything else I’m leaving planning out of the mix because it usually gets in the way of actually getting anything accomplished.

Well, that, and that whole thing about how we plan and God laughs.

I have a couple of books I’ll dip into, but I definitely don’t plan to regiment much. I think it would probably get in the way.

So for today, i’m just deciding to give this a go, and will let it go where it goes.

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