This country steals my social life.
I love living in Israel. It has successfully killed any chance of me having a non work-related social life.
Take Yom Haatzamaut. I am invited to an extremely not tech BBQ. It is hosted in someone's backyard in Jerusalem. I am off the radar. I start making small talk with the guy tending grill. Just to be social and nice. Turns out that he is finishing his doctorate in Computer Science in Haifa, and has launched an extremely cool service that allows people to design electronic circuit boards using C and not having to physically map out all the AND, XOR, and NAND gates by hand. (Full blog post to come, of course....) We speak for over a half hour about the possibilities of the product and the market that he wants to enter.All I wanted was a hamburger.Seriously though, it is kinda awesome. Everywhere I turn, people are doing things. They have ideas, and they get shit done. Good shit.I am impressed.