Seattle is buried in a foot of snow for the first time in over a decade.

Funny note – in French – : Olivier n’a plus de cuisine jaune et bleue, c’est pour ça que vous avez pris des m&m’s de cette couleur???

On another note, I was discussing Chanukah as the sham, (not sham) holiday that it is, that being, one which has very little religious bearing on Judaism, while still retaining divine significance to the American economy. However, what is lacks religiously, it more than makes up for in an application to present economic and resource-scarce problems. How do we get a now severely declining supply of oil to last us until some global biological epidemic takes over? If we can take the last drops of oil in our lamps and put them towards better long-term sustainable strategies, we might just make it out of the temple.

I encourage everyone to be wise in their resource allocation, and miserly whenever possible. Chappy Chanukah!

One more thing. My mother, grandmother and mother-in-law would certainly agree that Rösti ain’t latkes. I love Rösti, but nah, not like my mother’s latkes.