sometimes i write in second person

on a scale of 1-10, what's your favorite color of the alphabet?

[achos-laazov]

Parenting milestone achieved:

Spent the night in the emergency room with a broken wrist (Atara, age 6)

[achos-laazov]

Normally I don't judge parenting choices. You do you, we're all trying our best as parents.

But I seriously side-eyed several minivans I passed while walking my boys to school today that had kids standing while the car was moving.

[achos-laazov]

Dewey Decimal Challenge Update

I went to blog/post my 610 and realized I never did my 600. Oops.

600s - Technology

609.04 The Shock of the Old: Technology and global history since 1900 by David Edgerton

610s - Medicine and Health

612.3 Gut: The inside story of our body's most underrated organ by Giula Enders

[achos-laazov]

620s - Engineering

620H The Things We Make: The unknown history of invention by Bill Hammack

[achos-laazov]

630s - Agriculture

636.0832Z Funny Farm: My unexpected life with 600 rescue animals by Laurie Zaleski

[achos-laazov]

648 - Home and Family Management

648.8 Organizing for the Rest of Us by Dana K. White

[achos-laazov]

650s - Management and Public Relations

It was pretty hard to find an interesting book in this category until I realized that 652 is Processes of Written Communication which included

652.809 The Hidden History of Code-Breaking by Sinclair McKay

It was a bit slanted towards British codebreaking and related history, probably because the author is British. There are small ciphers and codes to crack in between chapters, which was fun. It did not go as in-depth into history as I expected with this title, so it was a pretty quick read. I enjoyed it.

(Seems like I may have time for reviews again, now that I finished grad school!)

[achos-laazov]

660s - Chemical Engineering

660.609 - Life as We Made It: How 50,000 years of human innovation refined - and redefined - nature by Beth Shapiro

Interesting, but heavily biases towards GMOs, to the point where it felt like a sales pitch from a somewhat dishonest salesperson. Makes me want to research the anti-GMO perspective to get their take, too.

[achos-laazov]

670s - Manufacturing

676.09 Paper: Paging through history by Mark Kurlansky

This was more of a history of printing and publishing than a history of paper, but it was very engagingly written. I enjoyed it. This author has an interesting variety of other non-fiction... the history of salt, cod, Birdseye frozen food, Dominican baseball, biography of Hank Greenberg, 1968, Basque history, American food before the highway system, and others.

[achos-laazov]

Dewey Decimal Challenge Update

I went to blog/post my 610 and realized I never did my 600. Oops.

600s - Technology

609.04 The Shock of the Old: Technology and global history since 1900 by David Edgerton

610s - Medicine and Health

612.3 Gut: The inside story of our body's most underrated organ by Giula Enders

[achos-laazov]

620s - Engineering

620H The Things We Make: The unknown history of invention by Bill Hammack

[achos-laazov]

630s - Agriculture

636.0832Z Funny Farm: My unexpected life with 600 rescue animals by Laurie Zaleski

[achos-laazov]

648 - Home and Family Management

648.8 Organizing for the Rest of Us by Dana K. White

[achos-laazov]

650s - Management and Public Relations

It was pretty hard to find an interesting book in this category until I realized that 652 is Processes of Written Communication which included

652.809 The Hidden History of Code-Breaking by Sinclair McKay

It was a bit slanted towards British codebreaking and related history, probably because the author is British. There are small ciphers and codes to crack in between chapters, which was fun. It did not go as in-depth into history as I expected with this title, so it was a pretty quick read. I enjoyed it.

(Seems like I may have time for reviews again, now that I finished grad school!)

[achos-laazov]

660s - Chemical Engineering

660.609 - Life as We Made It: How 50,000 years of human innovation refined - and redefined - nature by Beth Shapiro

Interesting, but heavily biases towards GMOs, to the point where it felt like a sales pitch from a somewhat dishonest salesperson. Makes me want to research the anti-GMO perspective to get their take, too.

[brightmouth-deactivated20230417]

My spouse and I just had one of those “wait your brain works HOW?” exchanges, and now I am BURNING TO KNOW HOW IT WORKS FOR OTHER PEOPLE:

Fellow speakers of this feral bastard language (English), rb and tell me in the tags: what is the delineation for you, if any, between evening and night?

[achos-laazov]

This will intersect with a specific niche subset of people, but evening is bein hashmashos and night is 42-72 minutes after that.

[achos-laazov]

Attention my school administrators: if you expect me to have my lesson plans (including sheets that need to be run off) a week in advance, you need to have your testing and extracurriculars schedule worked out more than a week in advance.

Brought to you by "stayed up until 1:30am on Sunday night to make up a math quiz for Wednesday only to receive an email on Monday night that my class is taking their standardized testing during my math period on both Wednesday and Thursday".

[greco-roman-jewess]

Re: the pizza and fries thing, where I live (Boston metro area) there are 2 or 3 (depending how we count 2 locations with the same owner) kosher pizza places within driving distance and 2 of them do serve fries, but the more unusual characteristic of those two places is that they also serve Indian food in addition to pizza. The unusual characteristic of the other is that it serves wraps and paninis, so perhaps the takeaway here should be less about pizza and fries specifically and more that kosher pizza places tend to, in addition to pizza, serve unrelated items as well.

I think this common for kosher pizzerias so they have naturally pareve options for customers that aren’t cooked on the same equipment.

Have pareve entrees means they can still get customers who ate meat too recently to have a milk food.

[misguidedandperplexed]

I've definitely never heard of Indian food in a kosher pizza store though.

[achos-laazov]

Also, having a husband who works in the Kashrus industry: the fries in a pizza store are likely 100% dairy, being cooked in same fryer as mozzarella sticks (if they are on the menu). Same for fries in a meat restaurant: they are 100% fleishig, being cooked in the same fryer as meat/chicken.

[aropride]

could an average, able-bodied person reasonably walk from where you live to a library, in good weather?

yes, because i live at a school/college etc with a library

yes, very easily

yes, there's a library in a reasonable walking distance

yes, but it'd take a while / terrain would suck to navigate

yes, but it'd take so long / be difficult enough to do that nobody would

no, there's no library in a reasonable walking distance

Voting ended onApr 23

[achos-laazov]

It's like 4 blocks and I walk there with my kids every Sunday for chess club

[bestomerever]

Today is the eleventh day of the Omer, which is one week and four days of the Omer.

Find the blessing here.

Subscribe to get the GIF Omer in your email daily.

Note: 11 = יא

[achos-laazov]

Dewey Decimal Challenge Update

I went to blog/post my 610 and realized I never did my 600. Oops.

600s - Technology

609.04 The Shock of the Old: Technology and global history since 1900 by David Edgerton

610s - Medicine and Health

612.3 Gut: The inside story of our body's most underrated organ by Giula Enders

[achos-laazov]

620s - Engineering

620H The Things We Make: The unknown history of invention by Bill Hammack

[achos-laazov]

630s - Agriculture

636.0832Z Funny Farm: My unexpected life with 600 rescue animals by Laurie Zaleski

[achos-laazov]

648 - Home and Family Management

648.8 Organizing for the Rest of Us by Dana K. White

[achos-laazov]

650s - Management and Public Relations

It was pretty hard to find an interesting book in this category until I realized that 652 is Processes of Written Communication which included

652.809 The Hidden History of Code-Breaking by Sinclair McKay

It was a bit slanted towards British codebreaking and related history, probably because the author is British. There are small ciphers and codes to crack in between chapters, which was fun. It did not go as in-depth into history as I expected with this title, so it was a pretty quick read. I enjoyed it.

(Seems like I may have time for reviews again, now that I finished grad school!)

[achos-laazov]

Dewey Decimal Challenge Update

I went to blog/post my 610 and realized I never did my 600. Oops.

600s - Technology

609.04 The Shock of the Old: Technology and global history since 1900 by David Edgerton

610s - Medicine and Health

612.3 Gut: The inside story of our body's most underrated organ by Giula Enders

[achos-laazov]

620s - Engineering

620H The Things We Make: The unknown history of invention by Bill Hammack

[achos-laazov]

630s - Agriculture

636.0832Z Funny Farm: My unexpected life with 600 rescue animals by Laurie Zaleski

[achos-laazov]

648 - Home and Family Management

648.8 Organizing for the Rest of Us by Dana K. White

[riddlebanshee]

POLLS ACCURATELY REFLECT VOTES, EVEN IF THEY DON'T REFLECT NOTES

Vote here if you hate the new tumblr update!

If we can't see an accurate reflection of the notes on any post,

We can use votes to show the reality of our feedback!

The number of votes on a post doesn't seem to change with the reblog,

(Since it would affect totalling, and all,)

So let's get an accurate tally of JUST how much we don't like this.

Reblogging is encouraged!! Spread this around as much as you like

Vanilla Extract

Bald

Voting ended onMar 23

If everyone who sees this casts a vote, it's hard to deny the numbers...

[magnetothemagnificent]

Should Big Gedalia Goomber be a Marvel or DC character?

Marvel

DC

Who the fuck is Big Gedalia Goomber?

Voting ended onMar 19

[achos-laazov]

80 lectures down

0 to go!

[achos-laazov]

Dewey Decimal Challenge Update

I went to blog/post my 610 and realized I never did my 600. Oops.

600s - Technology

609.04 The Shock of the Old: Technology and global history since 1900 by David Edgerton

610s - Medicine and Health

612.3 Gut: The inside story of our body's most underrated organ by Giula Enders

[achos-laazov]

620s - Engineering

620H The Things We Make: The unknown history of invention by Bill Hammack

[achos-laazov]

630s - Agriculture

636.0832Z Funny Farm: My unexpected life with 600 rescue animals by Laurie Zaleski

[achos-laazov]

648 - Home and Family Management

648.8 Organizing for the Rest of Us by Dana K. White

[achos-laazov]

!!!!!

Just submitted my final 2 assignments for grad school!!!!

One more lecture which will really be a celebration and I AM DONE!!!

[standingatsinai]

Heads up: This post is about fertility, pregnancy and birth. If this is a sensitive topic to you, please scroll on.

Frumblr Mums and those that have experienced pregnancy and birth, I have a couple of BIG questions for you:

1. What books and resources relating to pregnancy (including planning and fertility), labor, birth and postpartum Halacha, practices, rituals and beliefs did you use and what did you find useful?

2. Did you or did you not hire a birth and/or postpartum doula and what was your experience in that? If you were to have your experience over again, would you make a different decision in hiring a doula?

If you don’t feel comfortable sharing publicly but have insights to the above that you want to share, you can send me a private dm or ask and I won’t publish it.

Two obligatory notes: The first is that I’m asking this from a professional lens. I’m not pregnant nor do I plan to be anytime soon (very much focused on gerius, shidduchim let alone marriage and motherhood is out of the question for the foreseeable future and not at all on my radar rn). The second is that I, know the Rabbi of my local Shul is obviously going to my best resource but I’m asking here anyway and would be very grateful for any input.

[achos-laazov]

1. I took a childbirth class with a frum lady. It was six sessions with a bunch of other women, and one with just her, me, and my husband. I read every book she recommended (I don't remember all of them, but one might have been Labor of Love – the Jewish one), plus What to Expect While You’re Expecting.

As for halacha, my husband asked our rav for some general guidelines. When it came down to it, though, there was a lot of on-the-spot decision making that I’m really glad my husband has a background in halacha. For example, during delivery for baby #1, my husband was handing me ice chips because there was no one else to do it.

After we had our oldest, I read Taking Charge of Your Fertility and a bunch of other books about birth – Ina Mae’s Guide to Childbirth, Birthing from Within, Pushed, etc.

2. I hired a doula for my first birth (the same women I took classes with) but she ended up at someone else’s birth – she usually books one mother due each week but the woman the week before me went late and the woman the week after me went early so we all ended up delivering the same day.

I did not hire a doula again until baby #6. Baby #5 was a homebirth that ended up unattended (accidentally; pretty sure I posted the story on tumblr when it happened) and my husband was very nervous about that happening again. So we hired a doula for the next one. She diagnosed my son’s oral issues faster than any of the midwives (tongue tie, lip tie, cheek ties) and also came for a postpartum visit. Overall it was a great experience but a little expensive.

We did not hire a doula for the next 2 births as I switched to a different practice that is much closer to me than the original one I was using.

I don’t mind asking more specific questions if you want to dm me.