Happy Hump Day!!

woo! and a long weekend to boot!

*happy dance*

Woo!

So much to do today, but so little at the same time *gasp!

Yeah, bloody bugger has it all over us with his "retired" lifestyle - and all at the tender age of 39!.

Tomsmart, indeed!

lucky!! How'd you pull that off?

Whats in October??

A month of jewish holidays. Usually 7 extra days off - almost 2 per week (approx - the Hebrew calendar is different than the Gregorian one the 'rest of the world' uses). Some years the holidays are on the weekends, some you work MTW & have 4 day weeks (or work WTF...), other years the holidays are midweek.

In '06, the holidays are on a weekend. Last year they were midweek.

Downside to all these holidays: The 'rest of the world' works those days, so as a company we are very busy the rest of that week. Therefore, you can't take vacations during holiday weeks (any holiday - including xmas, memorial day, etc.). Company policy.

Mike.

I wish. During holidays (and every Saturday - its the jewish sabbath) you can't drive, go to the movies, cook food (it has to be prepared the night before or you order out - but kosher resturants are closed for the holiday too, so...), or anything that is considered 'work' or using the tools of 'work'.

And you are required to eat kosher - you're not an orthodox jew if you don't, so you don't get the holidays either. Do you know how many good kosher resturants there are in the Chicago area? There's a large jewish population, and I think there are 3. I've been to numerous kosher resturants; if the prices are reasonable the food is worse than dreck and if the food is good, the prices are ridiculous... And you NEVER eat at McD's, BK, Wendy's, the corner greasy spoon, etc. Oh, and the only thing you get on your pizza is cheese, can't have meat and cheese in the same meal.

Thank God I'm not jewish. 8)

Mike.

No, Kosher is a draconic seeming set of rules on what foods are good to eat and what foods are not. Almost anything grown is by default kosher, but it has to be harvested certain ways. Beef & chicken are kosher, as long as they are prepared (killed) in the appropriate way. Pig (ham & pork) is not kosher - they are unclean. Scaled fish (not catfish, lobster, clams, etc. - they're unclean as well) is kosher.

Now the food is harvested, and it has to be prepared and packaged for sale - that has to be done using certain rules, and overseen by a rabbi who ensures that it is kosher, and his seal is supposed to be somewhere on the package.

One more thing: Meat and dairy cannot be eaten in the same meal. Fish & dairy can, but no cheeseburgers (unless they're salmon cheesburgers LOL).

Yep, it sucks being orthodox jewish if you weren't brought up that way.

But its great working for one

Mike.

wow... k that's messed up!

and btw! pigs are prolly some of the cleanest animals there are! one of my ex's grew up on a pig farm and I had to take a damn shower to enter the barn so I didn't give them bacteria or a flu (baby piggies are so cute!!)

I know that about pigs... now. When I was little (back in the stone age ), and 5000 or so years ago they didn't when they made up these 'rules for life' that became Judaism. (not suggesting that I'm 5000 yrs old or anything...)

Mike.

I feel so sorry for the buggers now!

Red pepper and chilis are fine.

that's so mean!!

*pouts on behalf of her

Oh yeah - it isn't the rooting in the mud, it's the hoofs (hooves?)

ROFL

Heh, that was mean... (not that I wouldn't ... well, I probably wouldn't, but that's not the point)

Aww hell, It deserves one.

Mike.