In transit

Blog entry – 7/7/09 Dulles Airport

Airports are good places for me to write – I’m less likely to get interrupted here than the coffee shops and bagel places of Rockville (or the German Colony of Jerusalem, for that matter). We’re leaving for the summer with many good meetings already set up with Mitzvah heroes, and having nearly reached our goal of having $15,000 to distribute. We’re closer to $13,000, but money kept coming in during the days leading up to departure. This is about 60% more than we had to allocate at the same time last year, so progress, any progress in a weak economy is a good sign.

The new computer is holding up fine and doing its job. The trip to Israel is about 50% shorter than the trip home due to the gulfstream and layovers. It will be a busy few days ahead – travelling most of Wednesday, in Tel Aviv most of Thursday (poker Thursday night), celebrating Inge David’s 80th birthday (mother of my friend Yossi) Friday morning, getting ready for Shabbat, and then right after Shabbat, moving to Jerusalem.

There will be a few mitzvahs to report from the end of the week, and if I get my way, one or two wine tasting notes to share. It’s been a dry week so I’m overdue. More tomorrow or Thursday from the Holy Land.