Monday 3 April 2006

Pic of the day: Filling the empty gap.

Organic matters

My pious old friend, who helped me prepare for the move, returned yesterday and took with him the electric organ I had promised him. I hadn't used it for playing for several years, it's just served as a table for me after I had covered all the other tables in the Chaos Node with stacks of stuff (mostly magazines). I had yogurt boxes there, and music CDs, and the small stereo, and sometimes candles. Now it is gone, and I have moved some boxes in from the hallway to fill the gaping hole in the corner of the room. I'm pretty sure I've had it for at least 25 years. Oh well, one less thing to move! We already threw away the accordion before the move; it has not really been playable for some years. (Immigrants came and took it away from the garbage station at once.) If only I can continue like this, my earthly belongings should be down to an acceptable level within a few years. I have to consolidate my computers first for that to happen, though. More about that in the near future, I hope.

As usual my friend borrowed some scientific magazines and talked about the things that belong to the kingdom of Heaven. Incidentally, he agreed with me that there is no immediate reward for resisting temptation. So it isn't just me!

Because of the visit and for other reasons that I can't remember, I did not take any walks outdoors yesterday. Perhaps I was still a little tired from the long walk on Saturday? Anyway, when I woke up this morning, my right foot hurt so bad I yelped just putting on a sock. It felt and looked as if I had a splinter, although I could not see one. I could see the purple spot of inflammation around it, though. The strange thing is that it was higher up than the part of the foot that is in contact with the floor; not that I walk on floor that has splinters anyway, not to mention that it is almost completely covered with carpets. But even though it couldn't possibly be a splinter, it certainly acted like a splinter. I decided to take the day off, since I have a lot of walking at work as well as on my way to and from work. I wanted to give the body a chance to deal with the foreign object without pressure so it could heal quickly. (That, and I didn't want a blood poisoning from putting pressure on an infection.)

While I was languishing at home (playing The Sims 2), the grandmother of the house-owner came and started to tidy up the basement. She told me that her grandson would arrive on Wednesday. She also confided that his doctorate work had succeeded; not that I had expected anything less. This is supposedly a good thing not only for him, it also somehow increases my chance to continue to rent here. I wouldn't mind that!