Ottawa Update

SKF Still Piggybacking on Esti's Blog...

So it's 4:30 am and I'm waiting for Moishele to get up so that he can make his flight back to Toronto. He just had an off Shabbos and his mother missed him so much, I had to lobby for special reshus for him to come home for Shabbos. Everything went well and s/he had a lovely Shabbos together. Unfortunately, his flight back Motzei Shabbos was over-sold and he was bumped. I don't know if he was more excited to have another few hours at home or whether his pachad about Rabbi Oster's reaction trumped his excitement. I think it will be more than a few weeks before he can again receive a weekend pass.

On to other news...we are looking forward to a visit from a special guest. Yes, Avremi G is planning a quick trip to attend the CIC's Parliamentary Dinner. In his honour, we are pulling out all the stops, including a special presentation from Asi Cohen - Israel's foremost comedian. If you want to check out his sense of humour, go to You Tube and in the search field type in "interview", "priest", "Israel" and "comedian". I will leave live reporting from the event to Avremi.

I'm back from the airport and Moishele is safely tucked into seat 1-A. So if all goes well, Rabbi Oster will not have noticed he did not get back last night as agreed. Oy the pressure...

Not much else is doing on the Ottawa front. But just to authenticate that I am really writing from Ottawa, let me tell all of you grasshoppers that under Esti's steady and able supervision, we are just about Pesach cleaned! We are not quite at the stage of eating in the basement...that will come into effect immediately after Purim (which is a shockingly only 7 weeks away!). Truth be told, I don't even know why we are cleaning for Pesach, since ever the counter-culturalists, we are going to Australia for yontif!

Okay, now there is really nothing left for me to say. I still have another hour left before I can daven, so I will take advantage of the quiet, head downstairs, grab a ma'amar from the Alter Rebbe, adjust myself in a (really the only) comfortable chair...and chap a drimmel for 30 minutes ;-) Hope you are all well.