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The name Kohen (or Cohen) is skyrocketing in popularity, but only in red states, while Mira is all over blue states. What's driving the popularity of these traditionally Jewish names? Forward's Benyamin Cohen and Mira Fox have thoughts. Mira: "Does Cohen mean anything else, besides being a priest?" Benyamin: "Sure, it means, 'Hi, I’m a Jew.'"

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The Forward · How two Jewish names — Kohen and Mira — are dividing red and blue statesBaby names reflect America’s political and religious divides — with Jewish names like Kohen and Mira gaining traction in different places.

Opening Day

Today is opening day for the Boston Red Sox. The first game is a little more than four hours away. They are on the road against the Rangers. Game time is 4:05pm Eastern time.

This is the third opening day since my mother passed away and the first since my father passed away. I am missing them both a little extra today.

Here’s hoping my Red Sox tear Texas a new one to cheer me up. After suffering through garbage hockey for nearly a full season, I am not going to take any crap from baseball. I have spoken.

Unrelated note, here’s today’s photo a day thing (day 208 of 365). I hope you’re not getting tired of the toy camera app black and white stuff because I most definitely am not tired of it. I might use black and white exclusively next month. We’ll see. I’ll probably change my mind before then, but it could happen.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54412488042/in/datetaken/

#365 #365Challenge #365Project #Baseball #BostonRedSox #Family #iphoneography #openingDay #photoADay #photoADayChallenge #photoADayProject #photography #RedSox

Flickr208/365By robj_1971

Question for anyone interested...

If someone offered a service focused towards families (maybe?) for hosting open source and other self-hosted services, would you be interested?

I'm thinking it would provide:
* SSO with OIDC support
* your own instances for each app
* managed updates
* 99% uptime

Other features/ideals:
* contribute back to upstream projects
* keep as much of it open source as possible
* if you leave, you get the AWS account with all your data

So...would you do it?

(more background in replies)

Got a call from Dad this morning at 5.30, which is not too awful but it still woke me (for context, I'm usually up before 6 as I start at 6.30, but last night I went to bed late so was planning to sleep in a bit... but I digress)

Anyway, he wasn't feeling well, and given little-bit-scary experience we had a couple of weeks ago, we decided we'd go into hospital. Thankfully a quick visit this time! We got there by 6.30 and he was back home by 10.30 with more medications. We talked on the phone and just now and he's doing better. It's complicated, when you're older, isn't it?

I have some thoughts on ageing and caring and what care looks like and how that could be extrapolated to the community... but it's nearly 21.30 and it has been a long day. I'll post on the weekend.

Meanwhile I was able to take the day out of work with carer's leave and it is those kinds of things that are good about salaried employment. My workplace might be a chaotic mess right now but getting paid time off to care for my family is a plus.