118 The Big Count (Num 1)

I'm so tempted to follow the title with a AH AH Ahhhhhh *thundering* ala Sesame Street.
But I won't.
:p

Well the last day of my holidays today. Until the next lot anyway.
Amazing weather and another day with our amazing friends.
Boxing Day generally is the signal to stop eating too much food.
But we ate way, way too much today.
And what a spread it was.
As only a buffet can be.
Incredible.
Oo, nearly forgot that I made a scallop laksa for Donna last night.
A bit spicy, and not what I originally intended. But I thought it rocked.
Donna smiled as she ate it and said it was nice.
I'll take that any day.
Yeah!!

Numbers 1
I enjoy the anticipation that comes starting a new book.
This is the fourth time for those maths challenged souls out there in blogland.
New expectations.
Is it really going to go as I remember?
What will the new stuff include?
I hope it's not dull.
Is this when such and such happened?
(Insert some example of a vague memory to do with the particular book here instead of "such and such" which I can't believe I used.)

Aaaah Numbers. I often refer to it as the "flick through" book.
So many names.
How the heck do you pronounce Zurishaddai or Ammihud or Ammishaddai?

So 2 years after coming out of Egypt God commands a census.
This isn't going to take a day or two.
It probably isn't going to take a week or two either.
Just organising so many people into clans and their father's houses must have taken ages.
Then there's the recording.
Then the counting.
Just writing down over 600 000 names!!!
Just imagine the RSI for the poor little scribes.
So this was important.
A big deal.
Everything needs a start so people know what's happened before.
This was the start so to speak.
The start of a nation.
It wasn't just to keep genealogist happy.
Something history changing was about to begin.
So try not to just flick through this stuff.
It means so much more.