Rant #3,795: Happy New Year ... and Baseball Too

The keyboard I told you about yesterday won't get here until later this week or into next week, so I am just going to have to manage.

In the meantime, I got a brainstorm on Monday night, which I thought could help me out of this jam, to a certain extent.

Why not hook up the non-Apple generic keyboard i have to the extender and see if it will work?

Well, I tried it yesterday morning, and it worked!

So I have two keyboards hooked up to the computer, and it allows me to keep everything together without unplugging anything, and I don't have to copy the letter "p" and some other characters to do my work.

And all of this is happening right before Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar, which begins at sunset today and ends roughly 24 hours later on Thursday 

By fasting, one shows allegiance and worthiness to God, and for about the 58th straight year or so--maybe more--I will be fasting during this holiday.

Fasting is difficult, but it has a purpose--spiritually, mentally, physically and emotionally, and I always feel better in all of those ways when I complete the fast, which I will be doing at my sister's house with her family and my family.

I hope that God writes in his book that I have been a good person, and that he allows me to demonstrate what a good person I am for another year.

And Max Fried, who is Jewish, started the playoffs on Tuesday for the Yankees against the Red Sox.

I read that while with the Braves, he pitched in a playoff game on Yom Kippur, and actually won the game--

While he fasted!

I don't know if I could ever do that, and let's remember that a pitcher like Sandy Koufax did take off for the holidays.

You are not supposed to do anything during the holidays but pray and fast, but somehow, baseball has always worked into the High Holy Days for myself and my family.

As a kid, when my friends and i came home from services, we always watched the World Series, which was on at the time, conveniently for us Jewish kids, in the late afternoon.

Whatever the case, I don't plan on pitching when I begin my fast today--

But I will be rooting for the Yankees to help me get through the fast.

Wins make fasting easier.

And if what I read is correct, Israel is very soon to bask in the knowledge that it has won this horrid war, and will get its hostages back and know that it did the right thing after it was brutally attacked--

No matter what many in this bizarro world would have you believe.

Have a great holiday, an easy fast, and I will be back on Friday.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!