Second car

 New car.  My old car (model 2012) is working perfectly and passed the annual test for the year 2024. But my wife was not satisfied and I had to buy her a new model 2024. Spent the day receiving the car near Ashdod and driving back home. The car is full of electronics, and it will take time to get used to it. I'll keep driving the old car, till I sell it. 

Backup computer

 
After the crash of my two computers, I researched which model was the best for Autocad. It appears that i7 is the fastest and most suitable because Autoad does not use multiple cores. I bought the Lenovo Tiny model for 1000 shekel. This chip is twenty years old yet apparently the best suited for my needs. Let's see if it is true. Computers are becoming cheap, I paid 10000 shekels for my first (20000 sh in current money).   

Life

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

77

 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.