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Kindly, if you don't have something constructive to say, please skip this post.

My baby half sister who isn't Jewish is in the wind, and last I knew, was deep into meth and is very probably dead. It's been many years since anyone's heard from her, and I think I held out hope for a long time that she'd somehow find her way back, but I feel like when I ask myself honestly, I know that the truth is that won't happen.

How can we mourn when we can't know, and when there is no yahrzeit we'll ever know?

Hey all,

So I'm moving to my next phase - I've discussed it with my rabbis and a few other trusted people and I'm looking to go to rabbinical school next. I have time to study because I happen to need to finish my bachelor's degree, but this works out in the scheme of things.

I'm debating whether or not to go for learning Hebrew first (I know how to read phonetically and know a handful of words), or to go for chanting lessons?

It's most important that I know chanting sooner so I can begin doing that for lay leadership credit, so my guess is that, but I'd love to know if I'm missing any reasons I'd need Hebrew first.

FTR, my school wants modern Hebrew for my entrance tests, so actually knowing what I'm reading is secondary considering it's not all a 1:1 translation.

Thanks for your thoughts!

Hey all,

We are rolling out WHfB and one of the things that's different so far is that Windows locks immediately after screen timeout now, and that timeout seems to be around 2 minutes. Our screen lock time is set universally for 5 minutes, so I'm unsure where the different setting is.

Any ideas of what settings I could look at to try to sort this?

Thanks!

I am swapping a chain for my first time and it seems like my chain might now be slightly too long (KMC 9 spd chain vs Shimano original). It seems like the RD is much too close to the cassette now, so although it runs ok forward, it hangs up and goes dangly and slack when backpedaling.

The other day I was riding and for the first time, I'm not sure what I hit but it was hard - I got a nasty shock coming up the bike which then went straight up into my wrist. Something's definitely off with it, so I have a splint on it for now, and I'm not planning to ride for a little bit. Putting normal riding pressure on it doesn't feel very good at all.

The bike is a 2007 Trek 1500 (Aluminum frame), so I'm very restricted on tire size - currently on 25s, and 28s sometimes fit, though it seems to be debated how well they actually do, so I'm not sure tires are much of an option here.

I'm curious about what else I can do going forward to help reduce some of the risk of that happening again, and absorb more of the impact in the future. I already have Fizzik Tempo 3mm bar tape which is in good shape if a little old (not a lot of riding since I rewrapped so it's not worn). I'm looking at the gel underpads Fizzik and others sell as an additional layer, too. If anyone has any opinions on these I'd appreciate it. I'm also open to new bar tape since I'd likely need it anyway if there's something measurably better than the current stuff.

Besides tires, bar tape and underpadding, different gloves, or a flat out new bike, what else can I do?

I'm open to some carbon bars as well, but considering the combined prices for the upgrade, I'm getting into the territory of just getting a good quality used bike that already has carbon bars. Thanks for the thoughts!

I posted here a few days ago asking about a waxed chain and folks were worried about my chain being too old and having worn out the drivetrain. Well, I got lucky, my LBS must've been doing chain changes because I'm well under the .75 marker. Not sure exactly what it is, I decided I'll get a proper pin style one so I can do more close monitoring, but feeling good.

To make things a little bit better still, I managed to re-true my wheels after a small slide on a metal plate into a border rock after the rain last week.

I have an older Trek 1500 from 2007, and I've always used traditional lubes of varying types, but it leaves such a mess so I want to switch to wax. (Yes, I know it'll flake like hell the first ride.) I'm not sure if my chain has ever been chained and I figure I have somewhere around 6-10,000 miles on her (best educated guess only), so I figured I'd pick up a new chain and go with that.

I have an ultrasonic cleaner and Muc-off cleaner concentrate, plus a spray chain cleaner I plan to use for a quick initial blast - is that good enough for an initial clean? Any other advice besides cleaning out the rest of the groupset and taking the time to do some basic maintenance on the parts? Groupset is 105 components with an Ultegra RD (this bike came that way).

Edit: I did take it regularly for maintenance at my LBS, so it's very possible the chain was changed without me knowing, I'm just assuming because I don't recall getting charged for a new chain. I haven't ridden much in years bc I had some jerk try to run me over and I got scared off the bike for a while because I didn't have any good trail options locally. That said, the last year of riding I did get a lot more miles on it than usual - around 3k based on quick math, so it's definitely due if anything.

I wonder if it would be helpful to have a post guide for the future? We've had posts on choosing a denomination, etc., but it seems like nobody ever posts which denomination they're looking at, or even asking which one would be good for them. Lots of people don't set a flair. This is all stuff that would be helpful, IMO.

(And yes, I'd be happy to write one if we think we would like one!)