Things learned from this Yom Kippur

• Fasting and stomach viruses don't go together.  The effects are unpredictable and unpleasant, and the affliction was worse than I've ever experienced.  The virus didn't become apparent until after the fast is over, or I suppose I would have been officially exempted.  As it was, I was one of the stupid stoic guys who held on to the pew during Ne'ilah thinking that it was normal to be this dizzy.
• Heated political debate at the break-fast: from which I draw the following conclusion: arguments break out among Norwegians when they've had too much to drink.  Arguments break out among Jews when they've had too little to eat. 
• After you've repeated Ashamnu and the Al Chet prayers often enough, it does tend to have the intended effect.  You don't feel much worthy.  The rabbi told a story attributed to a Chasidic rabbi (don't ask me whom) in which he said he came to heaven and was asked why he didn't accomplish more; the rabbi said he wasn't smart enough, didn't have enough money, etc., and then the question was: well, then, why were you so arrogant? 
• My Hebrew is getting better, which kind of surprises me.