Tuesday 26 October 1999
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Pic of the day: 3-step-filter ionizing air cleaner. Brand stinking new. See text below. ... Since you're all curious about me, me, me: Yes, I saw another doctor today, and he saw me too. Or at least listened with his stethoscope. Of course, right then I breathed as freely as I haven't done for months. Waiting outside a doctor's office for half an hour or more may stress some people, but not me. Not when the alternative is work. I enjoyed the inactivity with a vengeance. This doctor was only interested in microbes, and I guess that is reasonable since it started with an obvious infection. My subtle hints about allergies were politely but effectively ignored. I gave two blood tests; luckily I did not ruin the shirt, which is a nice one. The cotton gauze was bled through, but it stopped on the tape without seeping into the shirt. Yay! Good timing. So if the blood tests come back negative (and I guess they will), it's time to inquire into the nature and causes elsewhere. In the mean time, I have bought an air cleanser, as advised by Kristi and Joe. I got a light, portable unit for $180. That's with ionizer but without humidifier. I also have a stand-alone ionizer which I've activated near my computer corner. Watch out, dust motes: The hour of your demise is drawing near! For the last time you have danced in the sunbeams, weaving your glittering path through time and space like the galaxies in the gleam of Creation. The Great Attractor is coming...Technical Note: The Great Attractor is a large scale cosmological structure whose gravity is drawing our galaxy and those of our cosmic neighborhood towards it at a speed larger than the expansion of the universe. Which means that eventually our galaxy will be there, whatever it is. Probably a cosmic wall, a high-density area of galaxies and black holes. It won't be in our lifetime, though ... or that of our solar system. ... Today I just stopped by my favorite clothes store, Løkka. They had cleared one of the windows, a sign that new clothes had arrived and would soon be on display. I snuck in, and you should have seen those shirts! Wow! They were so absolutely adorable! There were some black and dark gray, of course, but also a brown striped in silk-like material, very soft and light. I did not look at the price, which is probably just as well. (And no, I did not buy it without looking at the price, either. It is still there.) While I was there, an old friend (or at least acquaintance) from Smith's Friends came in. (The pietists, you know.) He told me that another old friend of mine was dead. Now, that one was a literally old friend, in his early seventies. Still, the world will be slightly colder and poorer without him. He was a good man, remarkably so.There is an expression in the Bible, to consider oneself dead to sin but alive to God. You may have noticed how many christians (at times including me) are very alive to sin, and stare at it in horrid fascination; barely able to notice God, let alone our fellow humans. Luckily some people outgrow this, or perhaps they bypass it entirely. This old friend was one of those, who made people feel loved and respected rather than suspected. May all christians (and then some) learn this while we're still here. |