But for too many of my colleagues, today doesn’t mark the beginning of the weekend, it marks the end of their IBM career. Fare ye well, one and all.

I don’t want one of these

Coming Soon: A ‘Telephone Tooth’  
Tired of losing your cell phone? Having other people listen in on your conversations? What about all the times you’ve had to turn it off at public events, or leave it behind while swimming? Two British inventors unveiled a prototype of a device Friday that could solve those problems. But there’s a drawback — your dentist would have to install it inside one of your molars.

B’nai Mitzvah news

Our havurah has its first B’nai Mitzvah this weekend; it’s also a doubled B’nai Mitzvah (as Jeffrey’s will be), so we have more than one reason to attend. Planning for Jeffrey’s Bar Mitzvah is moving apace, too. Only 7 months…yikes!!

Shabbat Shalom

No big plans for the weekend other than going to shul; maybe I’ll have a chance to edit the photos I took on my last two trips. Or maybe I’ll just play Simpsons’ Road Rage some more.

So, not only am I playing Road Rage, I’ve started watching The Simpsons, too.

And today at work, I got a note from the Travel Expense Auditors telling me that they’d found a problem with my most recent expense account. I have to admit that I have a lot more respect for those folks than I did on Monday…and, fortunately, the problem appears to be easy to solve (I did something out of profile and forgot to write a note documenting it — so they flagged it, as they should).

But it could be worse. I could be at the wrong end of this conversation and be out $3!