Day 82 of my 47th year

I got up in the morning, fed Leia, took her to kindergarten, and went to work. An ordinary day overall.

At work I kept dealing with project matters and various meetings. In the evening I met up with Masha and we went to an unusual event dedicated to Rosh Hashanah. It turned out to be less of a real performance and more of a paid “happening”: one performer — more of a toastmaster than an actor — came onstage, introduced himself lazily, briefly shared childhood holiday memories, recalled one celebration in Tushino in 1994 that he spent under a table, asked us to help move some tables, spread a tablecloth, and then had us place glasses and bottles of inexpensive Austrian white wine on it. After that he started immersing us in his memories of Uncle Sergey, had everyone read toasts in turn, handed out red noses, and people drank wine while Masha and I had water. Overall it was not bad, but that was thanks to the decent audience rather than the performer. Still, charging 6,000 rubles per person for a sad toastmaster, not very funny contests, and a vague story is a genius business plan. Even so, the evening did not leave a bad impression, so I will not complain. Let us say we celebrated the Jewish New Year.

After the show we walked to the metro. Outside it strangely smelled like summer. We rode the metro to Krasnye Vorota and returned home by car, picking up some salads for a late dinner on the way. I also built an SFI library in PHP. Now I need to test it on the data they still have not given me...