I spent a good part of this week taking apart my entire bedroom and putting it back together again, much more organized this time. It's like I have space for my stuff again, and it's all accessible. Things were reassembled just in time, too, because Seth came up to Tzfat for Shabbos with Rachel and Jackie, and he's sleeping at my place. We're gonna have ourselves a time at Rebecca and Avraham's for the meals.

To celebrate Lag Ba'Omer this year, I decided to go camping near the town of Meron. Meron is just across the valley west of Tzfat, and every Lag Ba'Omer there's a tremendous pilgrimage to the grave of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, author of the Zohar, the book most central to the study of Kabbalah. The festival itself is too noisy, crowded, and chaotic for my tastes, but I'd never hiked all the way to Meron before, and I didn't want to pass up the excuse to do so. I left well after dark, and even though the moon hadn't risen yet, the starlight was quite sufficient for the walk down to the creek at the bottom of the valley. After that point, the tree canopy was thick enough to block out the stars and I had to use my flashlight for most of the rest of the trail.

Mad props to my homies back in Baltimore, Steve and Rebecca, for the great success of their production of Aristophanes' Frogs. I remember the fun of sitting in on one of the meetings of the translation team when I was visiting last January. It brings a smile to my face to see them get the recognition they deserve for all their hard work. Now I just can't wait for Steve to arrive in Israel for his archaeological dig.

I just stumbled on this really great article. Relevant excerpt:

A while back, Becca and I swapped cell phones for a day just for the fun of seeing how they differed. Since it was quite plain that she loved one of the games that my phone had built in, I resolved to write an implementation of it for her that she could use without borrowing my phone. So here it is. I had a lot of fun brushing up on my JavaScript knowledge in the process.