Anniversary

Looks like all seven billion of our people are still with us. Well, apart from the hundred and fifty thousand who died yesterday; if that number doubled due to all the Christian Elect ascending directly to heaven, would we actually have noticed?

Anyway. On this day in 1980, the wonderful darcydodo was born. Now she has a doctorate, so congratulations as well as happy birthday, Dr Darcy!

And on this day in 2003 I started my blog on LiveJournal. It's been a really fantastic 8 years, and I can't even begin to enumerate how many dear friends I've made, grown closer to or kept in touch with thanks to LJ and, since 2009, DW. Here's to many more years and many new friends.

Also on this day in 135 (ish) a plague that had killed thousands of Torah scholars miraculously ceased. In celebration of this, Jews have a minor festival of picnics, bonfires and giving three-year-olds their first haircuts. As an anglo-Jew, how can I resist the chance of a picnic in an urban park, huddled in several layers of jumpers and raincoats and umbrellas, eating cucumber sandwiches and drinking tea out of a vacuum flask? So I'm off to do that.