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Rupert and I went out for a little spin this morning. He's feeling better now I put a bit more air in his tires with my snazzy new bracket-mounted hand pump. And the new helmet, for all I resent having to buy a new one, has a nifty brim/visor that keeps a bit more of the sun out of my eyes.

It's nice this morning, a little cool out (cooler than inside, in fact.

Journaling when you're feeling low is like calling people when you're drunk: you feel much more embarrassed afterwards that if you'd just shut up and dealt with it... :-/

Sharpe's Challenge

I saw some ads for this newest entry in the "Sharpe's..." TV series of series. It's set in India, a rewrite of some of Cornwell's Sharpe prequels. Looks as if it will be the usual sex, violence, battle, and "Sharpe defeats evil villians" story.

I was quite buffaloed by one thing, though. The title screens that they start and end the commercials with show mysterious foreign writing in dark brown on a burnt-orange background with broadcast infor lettered in white over it. But the mysterious writing is not Sanskrit that you would expect in a story set in India. No, it's...

Hebrew?!

Yes, it seems to read (from left to right) עאפוצם (mem-tsadi-vav-pe-alef-ayin). My Hebrew is rusty (and was never strong to begin with), so I can't really begin to guess what it means.

Odd, right? No, here's the *strange* part. It took me a minute or two of staring at the frozen frame to understand what I was seeing...

All the letters are BACKWARDS! It's "םצןפאע" but reversed, as if in a mirror. VERY weird...