Well, for someone technologically challenged, I’ve had a good week. First off, I contacted Norton because my internet security, they said, had expired, and after a few conversations, I got it downloaded and activated not only on my laptop, but on my netbook as well. Then, feeling very brave, I contacted Rosetta Stone, since when my last laptop died, my Italian lessons died with it. After a couple of emails back and forth, they restored my license so I could put it on my new laptop, so I’m back to studying Italian again.
AND, as if that weren’t enough, it is snowing! For the first time this winter (I’m not counting the October freak snow as winter!) we have snow. I had been worried that we were in for a N.J. winter…all damp and rain and yucky, but it is snowing. Probably won’t amount to more than four inches, but hey, it’s snow, and it’s beautiful. Hopefully, it will be over for a few days by Saturday morning, as I’d like to go to the Poultry Congress at the Big E in Massachusetts, if possible. My little wheaten Old English Game bantam hens have both died, and poor Napoleon, their roo, is very lonely, and eyeing the big girls, but he’s WAY too small to be of interest to them. We shall see.
I’ve been slowly working my way through a book on the Bible written by my college Hebrew professor from about 100 years ago…or it seems that long. (Sometimes, and sometimes, it seems like it was yesterday.) It is slow going and pedantic in places, but informative and interesting in others, so I will continue…One interesting comment he made in the introduction is that most people don’t register the fact that the New Testament is some of the finest writing by Jewish authors of the first century, AD. (or CE, I guess, to be politically correct.) That was something I’d never thought of, and it makes good sense.
