So, Passover starts tonight, and so there is a lot of preparation.<\/p>\n
Our house is supposed to be Chometz*<\/sup> free, so think of Spring cleaning run by a Jewish woman on the edge of madness.<\/p>\n Well, we get back from an SCA event on Saturday night, ready to start cleaning, and the power was out, and remained out for the next 18 hours<\/b>.<\/p>\n But, as the saying goes, wait, there’s more.<\/p>\n Marilyn, my mother-in-law, was coming to visit us, and took the bus down the New York City area, only the ticketing agent pointed her to the bus that was headed to Boston<\/b>.\u2020<\/sup><\/p>\n So, instead of arriving at 5pm on Sunday, she arrived at 6am today<\/b>.<\/p>\n You know, I’m not a superstitious person,\u2021<\/sup> but I am expecting problems with blood, frogs, and cattle disease at our Seder tonight.<\/p>\n Light posting the next few days, because of the holidays.<\/p>\n *<\/sup>Leavened bread, and related products, which include things like beans if you are a Jew of Eastern European extraction.<\/span> So, Passover starts tonight, and so there is a lot of preparation. Our house is supposed to be Chometz* free, so think of Spring cleaning run by a Jewish woman on the edge of madness. Well, we get back from an SCA event on Saturday night, ready to start cleaning, and the power was out, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[976,1118,1021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-meta","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u2020<\/sup>Major<\/b> props to my brother Daniel, who lives about 40 minutes outside of Boston, who picked up Marilyn and took her to dinner before taking her back to the bus station.<\/span>
\u2021<\/sup>Which I guess is a mealy mouthed way of saying that I am<\/b> a superstitious person under these circumstances.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"