Happy Hanukkah!
Happy Hanukkah to my Jewish friends. I miss the latkes and jelly doughnuts my roommates received for the holiday at college. [Their grandmothers were afraid they wouldn’t celebrate or couldn’t get “real” food at that terrible Baptist university.] It was a great break.
One of the nice things about Hanukkah is that there are established “gifts”, so you don’t have to rack your brains about what to get: a card and gelt covers just about everyone.
General background at Wikipedia’s entry for Hanukkah and even more at Chabad’s Chanukah page.
[Note: on the Jewish calendar the day changes at sundown, not midnight.]
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Thought I post this here as there were no comments yet. 🙂
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Have a great xmas/Hanukkah/Hogswatch break all!
I went for the 5 machine deal mostly to protect the XT box I still need. When the need disappears, it will be a Linux Mate box. Thanks for the tip.
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I got a call yesterday morning from a Neighbourhood House I used to volunteer @ up until a couple years ago. I did the xmas lunch & dinner a couple times. The lady who was going to do this years cancelled & everyone else they tried was already busy, so I was a last resort (we didn’t leave on good terms!)
The House is run by a Church group (I forget which, Anglicare or one of those) & are the stingiest bunch of tight-arses I’ve ever met!)
I decided to do it for the Homeless, elderly & poor that deserve a good feed. They hadn’t organised much @ all! So I spent all day yesterday & today running around begging, arm twisting & emotional blackmail (which I REALLY hate) to get food etc. for the meals (they usually serve about 30-50 meals @ Xmas). Local Butcher is providing 2 spit’s free & gave 60% discount on 2 sides of lamb & a pork. A few Supermarkets are providing Chickens, few Turkeys & a bunch of other things, 2 local bakeries providing bread, fruit mince pies & got 6 Xmas puddings & some Pavlovas for desert. Various snack foods & drinks. Dairy is providing cream, ice cream, custard & brandy custard… Luckily, the House was renovated last year & the Kitchen had a badly needed upgrade! (one of our major disagreements was the poor state of the previous kitchen)! They even put in a good large commercial grade oven & cook tops & a walk in fridge Freezer. I’ll start all the prep tomorrow & make the deserts that need chilling overnight. Got a discount from a rental company for food warmers & other things needed.
I managed to get the total bill down to about $350. I also got about $140 in donations to cover some of it ($50 from me). So they better not bloody whinge or I’ll seriously knock them out! I am buggered already! Getting too old for this crap. Still… I just focus on the people who need this. I made damned sure the Manager knew I wasn’t doing it for her! *shrug* 🙂
And I thought I was going to be bored this Xmas! Now I’ll just be bloody exhausted! 😆 I know some of them will be old regulars @ the House, it’ll be good to see them again. 😀
The main problems with ‘Christian’ churches and organizations is that they have taken their lead from a Roman trained tax collector instead if a Jewish carpenter. Helping people is what it is about. Giving anonymously is the only way to rack up points for your final debriefing.
Enjoy the people and ignore the assholes – that has gotten me through a lot of holiday shifts without shooting anybody.