Sabbath

Sunrise over the Mt. of Olives

I've been getting quite confused lately ... like I cannot remember things; not losing things, mind you, but for example the last few days I was puzzled why the sun was setting earlier than usual. I was convinced it was summer and the sun should set after 7pm instead of 5pm. It took me several days to realise we're in winter. See? I've been writing on the blog about winter but the mind is not registering the reality. So I float through these pass few days puzzled by so many things. Is it a sign of Alzheimer's? I thought it could be due to the lack of potassium ... like the last time earlier this year. I forget what day it is, what time of the day it is ....

My subluxed shoulder still hurts a lot. Never got round to seeing the doc. It's awful trying to sleep with the pain ... I'm up most of the night because of it. The nights have become so cold I finally got the heaters out. Buddy is feeling it already. He hides in the toilet where it's warmer and more humid. Several nights now he's been hiding under my pillow while I sleep. Squashed him twice. Hahahaha. Now with the heater on, he goes back to the curtain rails to sleep. He's grown very attached to me now ... so much so that he gets separation anxiety each time I go out. Poor chap. I have to leave a toy (with bells because he likes to ring bells) or some new food to occupy his attention while I'm not at home. And when I come home and open the door, he flies straight to my shoulder and gurgles and gibber. He's learned to say his first words: yai yai ("naughty").

Yesterday's muslim demonstration against the law to ban muslim calls to prayer over the amplifier was more widespread than I thought. Newspaper report many villages up in arms over this proposed law. Last night at our place ... in typical tit-for-tat reaction ... jewish youths marched through our street singing very very loudly, banging drums to disturb the sleep of the muslims (and us - collateral damage) twice. You should know that the first muslim call to prayer is at 3.30am and as we go deeper into winter it will start as early as 2.30am.

An incident in Tel Aviv's boardwalk along the port drew fear and confusion today. A cafe brawl between 5 customers and a waiter was mistaken to be a terror attacked many visitors were running for cover in panic before police solved the problem. Seems like I'm not the only one confused.  http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4881127,00.html