Month: January 2006

That’s a virus infection too

Maxim’s temperature didn’t go down, so we went to see Dr.Simos. He checked the kid thoroughly and said that Maxim’s throat is soar. He seems to have some sort of virus infection – nothing serious though.

Maxim was prescribed a couple of sirups that should easy up his throat and help fight the temperature. It is expected that by Wednesday he should be fully OK.

By the way – to those of you who trust only in “natural” ways of healing I have to say “Reconsider!”. I was once again amazed by the wonders of technology and progress today, when a sample was quickly taken from Maxim’s throat and analyzed with a bunch of chemicals, giving a rather precise result within 10 minutes – what was and what wasn’t there and what is the best way to fix it.

Amen to the technology!

P.S.: Oh, and the front upper teeth are coming too. We can almost see them.

Backposting record

Usually I blog every day. I write at least one post a day. But sometimes I am either too busy or too lazy to do so. When this happens I make either written or mental notes of a post that I want to write. Just to remember. And when I get out of my busy schedule or my lazyness, I write the actual text and backpost it (set the posting date to the day and time when I originally had the idea).

Normally, I get into my blogging mood pretty fast – one or two days, which is about five posts worth of blogging. I try to make the blogging vacations as short as possible, because it is very difficult to get back.

I was back from my blogging vacations yesterday, but I had so many posts postponed that I couldn’t bother. Today I said – “Enough!” and forced my sorry bottom to write everything down before my head would explode into tiny pieces.

Ladies and gentlemen – we have a backposting record! 15 posts were just backdated. Out of these 15 posts I had written notes of only 4. That means I had 11 posts in my head!

(the sound of standing ovations … Thank you! Thank you!)

I’ll try to never ever do it again, because it almosts hurts.

Three gender race

Olga was watching one of those cheap sci-fi space movies on TV. It took me only about twenty seconds of looking at before I started joking about it – immitating voices, using quotes from other movies, and doing all sorts of other fooling around.

When I satisfied myself with all the mind crap that I could produce, I took a two minute break by thinking seriously about space stuff. The choice of topic this time was – other races.

In just under two minutes I managed to come up with a three gender choice – Triorids. Sounds cool, doesn’t it? Well, in this race, they would have your regular Male and Female, and they would also have a Catalyzer.

The thing is that a Triorid Male cannot have sex with Triorid Female. Their genitals just doesn’t match. So they need a Catalyzer. It’s like a converter. It connects to both Male and Female and helps them to have proper sex.

There are good and bad things about Catalyzers. The good thing is that they are more normalized. If you think of Males as plus, and Females as minuses (you can safely reverse, if that’ll change your attitude), than you Catalyzes would be about zero – somewhere in between. They also help a mating couple to stay together by finding compromises in conflicts and complimenting both other sides all the time.

The bad thing is that Catalyzers have the character, soul, and spirit of their own. They live their own lives. In turms of sex, that means that if Male Triorid wants to have sex, he has to convince not only a Female, but a Catalyzer too. Even if both Male and Female want to have sex, they still have to make Catalyzer agree.

I’m writing this idea down, because it occupied the whole two minutes of my two minute break, but I liked it enough to want to think it over next time.

Now I am back to my usual crap of impersonating cheap movie characters and using qutoes from other films…