Is this me or a double?

This morning I went to the clinic to have my blood pressure and weight measured formally (as if I don't do this on my own, but they need it for their records). One is advised to wait about ten minutes to allow the bp and pulse to settle down, and during this period, the nurse said that she watches a series on Netflix called 'Designated survivor' and that there is an actor there who looks almost exactly like me.

After having my bp measured (it was fine), I went home to look for this actor who appears on the left. In most of the pictures, the resemblance is amazing, so my wife decided to send this picture to our children, and captioned it as "Daddy when he had longer hair". Our daughter immediately wrote back that it isn't me, but when we asked her who it was, she replied "An AI version of Daddy"! I can tell that it's not me but it's hard to put my finger on what exactly is different. The nose isn't right and the hair on my forehead isn't so pointed.

Well, it's the actor Timothy Busfield, who is slightly less than a year younger than me, so our appearances match throughout the years. I remember seeing him in the series "thirtysomething", although I saw this only rarely. He had red hair then so there was less of a resemblance. He also appeared now and then in 'The West Wing' as Danny Concannon, the boyfriend of press secretary and then Chief of Staff C.J. Cregg. I liked his character but I never thought that we looked the same. 

Now that his and my hair is white, the resemblance is remarkable.

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Houthi shrapnel

During the past few days, the air raid sirens have sounded, warning against ballistic missiles sent from Yemen by the Houthis. One was at 11:30 pm (I was fast asleep), one at 4 am (ditto), one at 7:50 pm and one at 8 am. Every time we hear the sirens, we go into our security room - our bedroom - and wait ten minutes. Of course, this isn't a problem during the night.

All of the missiles have been shot down outside of Israel's borders. The last missile was shot down over Jordan, and although this isn't particularly close to where I live (maybe 50 km to the border), shrapnel from either the ballistic missile or from the interceptor landed on my kibbutz, 200 metres from my house in a 'green' area. A day later, more debris was discovered also about 200 metres from my house, albeit in a different direction, but also in a green area.

So that ten minutes of waiting can be very important! Fortunately that shrapnel landed where it did no damage, but those pieces could easily have landed on a house had they fallen 20 metres westward of where they fell.

27/03/25, 13:54: Two missiles were launched today; the alarms went off at 13:09, just as I was sitting down to eat lunch. My wife was out of the house at the time, although not far away, and she saw the interceptor missiles. No damage done to the best of my knowledge.

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