ט״ו באב ה׳תשס״ח (Saturday 16 August 2008)

Year Four in Review

ט״ו באב ה׳תשס״ח (Saturday 16 August 2008)

Four years is kind of a long time, about 15% of my life, or the length of a generation in high school or university, or the amount of time it takes for a professional sports team to win a championship, start sucking, and then get good again (not the Redskins), or the term of a [...]

the cost of things: checks

ה׳ באב ה׳תשס״ח (Wednesday 6 August 2008)

the cost to deposit a Bank Leumi check drawn from my employer’s Bank Leumi account into my own Bank Leumi account at a central Bank Leumi branch – NIS 5.50 the cost to deposit the same check using a machine inside the branch – NIS 1.65 the cost to get a teller to take my [...]