Journal of a Sabbatical

April 7, 2001

the best laid plans
gang aft aglay

For those readers in Massachusetts, today is rabies vaccine awareness day. Please get your cat or dog vaccinated. Rabies is a serious public health problem in Massachusetts.

Today's Reading: A Visit to India, China, and Japan in the Year 1853 by Bayard Taylor

Today's Starting Pitcher: Paxton Crawford

There was a plan for Passover. A good plan. I was to pick Nancy up at the bus station, drive her (and myself) to her sister's house in NH using directions I got from Map Quest, rendezvous with her parents there, participate in the seder save for drinking wine and eating brisket (actually they're not having brisket), pray for peace in Jerusalem a lot, come home to my hovel with Nancy. Ha! Her brother-in-law has a particularly virulent flu strain. Her Mom has a milder flu. Nancy has a cold. The brother-in-law flu strain is so virulent that the 'rents are visiting on the porch instead of in the house and planning to go out to dinner without the brother-in-law.

Umm, does the restaurant set a place for Elijah? Where do you hide the afikomen? Will I have to eat brisket after all? Nope.

Nancy who is already sick with a cold does not want to take any chances on catching this flu so we are going to spend the evening here at my house while I ply her with echinacea, lemon & honey, Vitamin C, zinc, etc. and read either the Haggadah or Autocrat of the Breakfast Table.

Next year in New Hampshire!