What have I been up to?

I am really behind posting again. So let me tell you why.

First of all we finally moved into our new apartment. It took about 3 weeks to complete all repairs and changes, but we are in. I love this place. We got 4 bedrooms, 2 porches, a huge living room / dining room area, and a mamad (sealed room). And it’s all mine. I constantly have this urge to drill something so I can continue upgrading. My piece of Eretz Yisrael is here.

Also, I got into reptiles lately. We have 3 Mediterranean Chameleons, 2 adults and a baby. My friend picked up the baby in a tree in his yard. He was probably around 2 weeks old and had some kind of a defect on his head, which wouldn’t change color and remained black. I doubt he would have made it in the wild, but he is doing great in his little cage. We also got a frog, European Green Toad, 2 Leopard Geckos, and last but not least and Roughtail Rock Agama, better know in Hebrew as Hardon (חרדון מצוי). The geckos live in my office, the frog in the kids’ room, and everyone else on the porch. I am also trying to breed some crickets so the food supply will remain steady and free.

Finally, I got into graduate school in Technion for Electrical Engineering. Besides the regular graduate classes they are making me take 4 additional undergraduate courses due to the fact that my bachelor’s is in Mechanical Engineering. So I end up going to school in Haifa now twice a week for half day.

Life is very crazy. I love it.

Rebuilding The Broken - Part 2, or "I told you so!"

During the war I posted about how Hizzbolah pledged to rebuild the Lebanese houses that were detsroyed during the war, but our government wasn't rushing to rebuild our broken homes. See my original post here.

Well, guess what? I was right.

This is from today's JPost.

"The Hizbullah abused us for a month; but the property tax has been abusing us for three months already," said Eitan Davidi, head of the northern communities' forum. "The Israeli government has disconnected from us and is giving us the cold shoulder, and therefore we decided on these severe measures." Davidi added that the ministers were always saying how they were supporting the North, but instead of offering their "strength," they should bring money.

Davidi pointed out that the Hizbullah had already financed rebuilding the majority of the destroyed towns in southern Lebanon, but Israel had made no progress.

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