Life

 Dancing the Charleston. The genre that best agrees with me is English music of the twenties. 

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 The A...Tower is being sued because its restaurant (650 sq.m.) has no permit. I took the job for what was told was "nothing" but soon discovered that it was a full "garmoshka". A lot of work. It happened that my two working computers failed (electricity cuts of the storm) and I had no computer. I took one to Igor the comp repairman, who said he repaired it and sold me a current regulator. Since it was not working, took the other one to ONLINE repair lab and he reinstalled the whole machine. The problem was that now I had no Autocad program, so I downloaded it once more. Now my problem was that I had no Hebrew fonts, bought a set from SAF for 100 shekels but I am still waiting for it. At 5 PM I downloaded a set from a suspicious free site, and I am starting to work. This stressful week depressed me to the point that I was starting to walk like a decrepit old man. Now, after everything works once again, I am almost my old 77 y.o. self. The whole week without being able to work and in general, the wars in Gaza and in Lebanon (and Yemen) give me no joy. The new grandkid, Ivry (Evrey?) makes me happy. Statistically, I am not at the end of my life, I have 11 years more to live. 

Willing myself to work

 

It is a cold and dark winter day outside. Everything is well, I passed the annual car test, money is dripping in, TASE is rising nicely, the war(s) are being fought and in the last three days there were no rocket alarm in this town. Yet I am not working as I should. I have nothing else to do, but have little interest in current projects. Soon I shall start withthe Shtulim project.  The internet tip of the day:

 JUST DO IT

Don’t waste time. Instead of waiting around, willing yourself to feel motivated, what if you just went ahead and started doing the work you know you need to do? Sometimes jumping in and tackling what needs to be done is the best way to get focused and excited about the project at hand.

INTEL CONFIRMS 25 BILLION FAB IN iSRAEL

 INTEL has one fab in Kiryat Gat, Israel, and it is satisfied with its reliability. 17% of its employees are currently in reserve duty while Israel is being bombarded from Gaza, Lebanon and Yemen (!). Yet Israel has not missed even one date. INTEL has confirmed the ampliation of the existing fab by 10 billions (in construction) and 15 billions additional in 2025. 

On the other hand, its competitors in the USA are having difficulties in building production  facilities. From Zero Hedge:

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. revealed its mass production schedule was postponed from late 2024 until 2025 due to a shortage of skilled workers. 

"We are working on improving this by sending skilled technical workers from Taiwan to the US," Liu said on a conference call after earnings in July. 

Besides a shortage of workers, Bloomberg noted, "US environmental permit issues and the Biden administration's slowness in delivering financial support have been plaguing domestic chip projects."

Also, chipmaker ASML Holding NV recently warned that lawmakers in Washington, DC, do not estimate the complexity of building new factories.

"People don't seem to realize that when we start building those fabs across the globe now and are everywhere, that skill has been refined over the last couple of decades in only a few places on the planet — predominantly in Taiwan and in Korea and a bit in China.

"Getting access to the requisite skills and skilled workers to keep the construction plan on time is a challenge," Peter Wennink, chief executive officer of ASML, said earlier this year. 

Gaza Winter WAR

Gaza underground tunnels. ZAHAL is fighting.

New Times

Since the early 2000s, hard-core cultural Marxist progressives have seized control over the U.S. education system at all levels. As a result, young Americans are emerging from high schools and universities with values unlike anything we have ever seen.

The new American values are built around a division of humanity into two classes: oppressor and oppressed. “Oppressors,” young Americans now believe, are evil and must be punished. “Oppressed” are pure and must be empowered. The United States is the chief oppressor. Its social and economic orders must be radically transformed to expiate its sins.  (From Caroline Glick).

The market dismisses the Gaza War

We are in the third month of the Gaza War, and TASE levels have reached and surpassed its pre-war heights. My impression is that the investors feared more the civil disorders of the "Democracy" protests (of course, it had nothing to do with democracy, it was organized by Ehud Barak and the intelligence services, to overthrow "Bibi" Netaniyahu without a democratic election) than the current war against HAMAS.  In fact, the US$ returned to 3.6 shekels, where has not been for a long time. Israel is cheap again and we are prospering.  The leaders of HAMAS (pic) are still fighting.