Mon 2008/Apr/14

• Dad was moved out of the Acute Care Unit last Friday, but has not been discharged yet. In the general sense, he is pretty fine now. Some tests still need to be done and he should stay in complete rest, so he won't be discharged before Friday.

• I've been pretty lazy during the last weeks, and specially now because of my dad's situation. I haven't feel in the mood to do much in any front. I suppose it's natural after many months of stressful work. I think that plugging me off of computers and taking a few days away would be optimal, but I don't think I can afford it in the short term.

  To compensate, I started reading an Erich Kästner's book I bought in Dresden and never finished. It's great to realize that I still can read German fluently, even when Kästner is not Goethe and therefore his writing is reachable.

  I also started watching Numb3rs, even when desrt warned me that it's yet another series and there's nothing special about it. Now I agree with him, but I have to say that I like the way they show math as a useful resource everywhere. A few years ago there was a CSI hype in Chile, and a lot of high school graduates started studying forensic sciences as a consequence. I really wish there would be a similar Numb3rs hype and more people started studying maths or computer science but, of course, that's just a dream.

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