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Jan. 24th, 2010 07:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
winterbadgerThis is the sort of thing that drives me crazy when it comes to Judaism
I mean, that's totally going around the spirit of the law to do what you want to do that violates it by adhering to a very tortured letter of the law. This is a small and silly thing, but it's indicative of the thought process that then gets applied to very large and serious things.
Other things that drive me crazy?
Waking up after six hours of sleep and being unable to go back to sleep. Week after week. (You were wondering maybe why I was up reading wargaming boards at 7 am after rearranging the shelves in my study?) (And what's with it getting *darker* every morning? I thought after the solstice the days were supposed to start getting longer again?)
Of course, the heat that comes on early early in the morning and blasts until it's 70 degrees inside, when it was perfectly content to be 60 degrees when I went to bed doesn't help.
Cats that sit around going licklicklicklicklicklicklicklicklicklicklicklicklicklicklicklicklicklicklicklicklicklicklicklicklicklicklicklicklicklicklicklicklicklick for hours. No wonder he doesn't have any bloody fur left.
The little bits of schmutz that get in the corners of your eyes when you sleep and then won't come out and irritate your eyes.
The omnipresence of dust. I clean and clean and still the dust comes back (and I'm allergic to dust--yay!) I cleaned the dashboard of my car the other day, which had somehow gotten coated with dust. I went to put the cleaning stuff away, and when I came back the dashboard was coated in dust again!
Auuuuuuuggggghhh!
*sigh*
Interestingly, since both I and my brother-in-law (who are the only two people in Israel who play DBA [a miniatures wargame]) are Orthodox Jews, and since we only really play on weekends, we run into religious problems. One of the prohibitions on the Jewish Sabbath is that of measuring!
After consulting with a rabbi, I printed out a special measuring stick that's at 95% scale. Any time we move a unit, we move it to *slightly beyond* where the measuring stick says to stop - because so long as we're not measuring exactly, we're not violating the prohibition. As a result, all of our games have a great deal more uncertainty than usual
I mean, that's totally going around the spirit of the law to do what you want to do that violates it by adhering to a very tortured letter of the law. This is a small and silly thing, but it's indicative of the thought process that then gets applied to very large and serious things.
Other things that drive me crazy?
Waking up after six hours of sleep and being unable to go back to sleep. Week after week. (You were wondering maybe why I was up reading wargaming boards at 7 am after rearranging the shelves in my study?) (And what's with it getting *darker* every morning? I thought after the solstice the days were supposed to start getting longer again?)
Of course, the heat that comes on early early in the morning and blasts until it's 70 degrees inside, when it was perfectly content to be 60 degrees when I went to bed doesn't help.
Cats that sit around going licklicklicklicklicklicklicklicklicklicklicklicklicklicklicklicklicklicklicklicklicklicklicklicklicklicklicklicklicklicklicklicklicklick for hours. No wonder he doesn't have any bloody fur left.
The little bits of schmutz that get in the corners of your eyes when you sleep and then won't come out and irritate your eyes.
The omnipresence of dust. I clean and clean and still the dust comes back (and I'm allergic to dust--yay!) I cleaned the dashboard of my car the other day, which had somehow gotten coated with dust. I went to put the cleaning stuff away, and when I came back the dashboard was coated in dust again!
Auuuuuuuggggghhh!
*sigh*
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Date: 2010-01-24 03:08 pm (UTC)You can damp the cloth with water or a mix of water and vinegar - or use spray polish, or those impregnated dusting wipes. You get special ones for car dashboards that leave the surface shiny and coated in an anti-static finish that will repel dust for a few days.
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Date: 2010-01-24 03:22 pm (UTC)This is what was driving me crazy. That's what I used on my car. And LITERALLY not five minutes later it was covered with dust again! :-(