What I Missed in Just One Week #219 By Hank Silverberg You may have noticed I did not post a blog this past week. My wife and I took a trip of a thousand miles to see family for the first time since the start of the pandemic for Passover. It was good to see them all. We had a celebration of my mother's life, since the pandemic prevented a funeral a year ago, and then we had a huge family Seder that included all of her nine great-grandchildren for the first time. I love this type of event. (Take the bridge and avoid NYC) But I confess the crowds at the service areas on our trip (where we stopped in Maryland and Connecticut) made me a bit nervous. I was wearing a mask, but that darn Omicron variant is still a worry, even though I am fully vaccinated. (If you are not, you are making a mistake.) What surprised me most were all the things that happened in the 72 hours where I was not paying much attention to the news. (I had one or two hours of listening to all-news radio in nea