u/FringHalfhead

8 years of yeshiva Hebrew in Brooklyn NY and 3 years of Hebrew in High School. My family is from Estonia / Poland / Ukraine / Russia. I've gone to Ashkenazi shuls my whole life.

Astonishingly, I grew up speaking Sephardic Hebrew because that's what my teachers spoke. I used to hear my grandparents and their generation say things like "Shabbus" and "Sukkus" and it sounded like .... ancient white person. Almost like a caricature of what an old Jewish person from New York should sound like while eating pickled herring. It sounded backwards.

Flash forward 45 years. My 11 year old daughter who goes to yeshiva sounds like me. My 8 year old son, however, sounds like a native. He made me realize that the kindergarten me never really learned the native resh. That resh that's in the back of your throat rather than the American resh which is in the front of your tongue.

I feel stupid asking this, but I think other people must have asked the same question, at least internally. At 56, am I too old to change my resh from the front of the mouth to back of the throat? I've tried it and I feel like an interloper, like I'm doing something that's not for me. I've been speaking Hebrew for an awful long time, and it feels weird to change my accent. Sort of like how it feels speaking with a British accent, except when I'm speaking Hebrew, I'm not trying to be funny.

The problem isn't producing the sound. I know full well how to produce a native resh. It's the weird feeling of changing something I've been doing my entire life differently.

I'm overthinking this by a LOT, right? Is this in the head of other people?

I'm an "old Trek" kind of guy. Finished a Voyager with my kids (first time for them), so I figured it was time for them (and me) to watch Discovery.

Just watched S01x11. To my amazement, I'm loving the series. We witnessed one of the best plot twists I've ever seen on TV. Almost "Sixth Sense" level of epic.

The only criticism I have is that the show feels more like a re-imagination / reboot. Continuity is blatantly poor (e.g. Klingons, 23rd century ship design), but the story telling is good enough for me to suspend my internal criticism.

I've heard S02 is great but S03 and beyond fall off a precipice, but I'm keeping an open mind. I was expecting unwatchable, and so far, got excellent.

Fell in love, and want to replace my phone with a more accurate device.

Looks like the most expensive devices are roughly $500 or more, like the Garmin GPSMAP 67i or Garmin GPSMAP H1i Plus. Big nope.

There's also the mid-tier devices like the eTrex which are expensive but doable, like $150 to $250. I'm willing to splurge since the whole family is into it.

I'd like to get the Garmin 67, but $500 simply too expensive. The eTrex Solar is reasonable and looks good -- guess I'm leaning towards this. But before I make the purchase, I wanted to get input from more experienced veterans. What would your recommendation be? The Garmin 67 is simply overkill, right? If it truly adds value to our hobby, I'll invest in it, but my gut feeling is that it's overkill.

I live in NYC, but as a Scout and avid camper, I also do Geocaching in places with hinky cellphone coverage too.