If this year was like all other years, the Silver Tongued Cats wouldn’t have met this morning because it’s the first day of Passover and the JCC is closed. But this year, we’re meeting on Zoom, so we met anyway and had a productive and interesting meeting – if anyone would like to visit us, ask me for the link.

And because it is the first day of Passover and we’re home, we went to services at Shir Hadash (on Zoom); there were about 20 families in attendance, and things went reasonably smoothly.

I spent the rest of the day beginning the migration from my old laptop to the new MacBook Air – I’m starting by migrating applications and trying not to bring everything across. I’m also trying to wean myself from Dropbox, since I won’t be able to install it on this machine (I’m over the 3-machine limit for a free account) – so far, I’ve moved iTerm2 and Keyboard Maestro to iCloud Drive, but there’s much more to be done (I’m up to the “M”s in the Applications folder; I haven’t started looking at my data yet).

Good thing I’m not rushing to do this before a vacation!

For the past few years, we’ve been going to friends for Seder (if we’ve been at home). They invite about a dozen people over; there’s good food, good wine, and a 14-page Haggadah with some interesting songs.

Tonight was no exception – except, of course, everyone had to go to their house over Zoom. More wine may have been involved than usual (we decided it was a great opportunity to drink the bottle of Wente Nth Degree Pinot Noir we’d picked up a few years ago), and the singing was less synchronized than it might otherwise have been – but a good time was had by all, and the Passover story was told yet again.

Before the Seder, I finished the first draft of our taxes, so it was a day of liberation in more than one way!