At Ben Gurion: "Do you know why you were pulled over for additional checking?" "The four bottles of wine in my suitcase?" "Perhaps. How long have you owned this suitcase?" "I don't know." "A week? A...
Topics: personal, travel, vacation

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I've been counting down the days to see Rachel on Facebook. For those that don't have me in their Facebook feed, here is how the last 84 days went: 84 days to go 83 days to go 82 days to go 81 days 80 days 79 days 77 days 76 days 73 days ... if...
Topics: blogging, humor, personal

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Last night I tried to check-in online only to discover that El Al didn't recognize my ticket number. It took until 10 am today before I cleared that up: between the time that I bought the ticket and today, the flight number had changed and the time...
Topics: conventions, personal, travel, vacation

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I just spent 24 hours with my son Saarya, hiking Nahal Arugot in Ein Gedi, BBQing on the Dead Sea beach while circled by 13 hopeful cats and listening to British yeshiva students sing Hebrew songs, and watching Keeping the Faith on television back at the.
Topics: personal

{"title":"Shabbat Shalom","post_url":"http:\/\/jergames.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/shabbat-shalom.html","feed_url":"http:\/\/jergames.blogspot.com\/feeds\/posts\/default?alt=rss","author":"Shade_Jon","date":"2009-10-02 06:40:00","summary":"I just spent 24 hours with my son Saarya, hiking Nahal Arugot in Ein Gedi, BBQing on the Dead Sea beach while circled by 13 hopeful cats and listening to British yeshiva students sing Hebrew songs, and watching Keeping the Faith on television back at the."}

The latest Jerusalem Strategy Gaming Report is up. Games played: Geschenkt x 2, Hacienda, Year of the Dragon, It's Alive. And a teaching session for Robo Rally. I fire up Hacienda once more to see if we want to keep it. Verdict is still out.
Topics: game group, games played, gaming

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