so time passes... what i planned to do obviously did not happen.  and now on my last trip which was to new jersey, my car gave out completely and as the mechanic put it i "granaded" the motor and the car is shot.  it is in some field type garage in central pennsylvania and i am in the market for a new vehicle.
i put 150000 miles on it in 11 years and most of it was actually driving with yossi or should i say, for  yossi.  there is a sense of driving miss daisy in what i do, except that he is not an elderly jewish lady  with a somewhat younger chauffeur, but he is a young jewish man with an elderly driving mother.  sometimes i wonder, if in this activity i am accomplishing the essence of my life: to be a servant to some obscure dignitary from a related but different star system.