Underpowered? Resort to last resort.

Putting compliments into perspective

• If you invite friends and family to your place and show them your new kitchen that you designed and bought...
• Or if you buy new shoes, would your girlfriend say the color is off, or they could be used in a circus? (Note: I didn't buy any new shoes recently!)
• Would they ever say it is hideous?
• Probably not.
• Always recognize the subjective nature of the opinion or compliment.

Iter by itself

Iter = way, path...

Toooo much orange juice?

New medical equipment shortens waiting rows?

• Every time health minister or director of medical facilities ceremonially puts new medical equipment into use there are always big words of how this will reduce waiting rows for at least three months.
• Funny words, really. Because they say that for last five years patients had to wait for treatment for a year (hearth surgery, cancer treatment...). In other words they will wait for only 10 months from now on.
• Which is illogical, because if the flow of patients is relatively constant (rows data for the last five years...) and you increase the "production" capacities (from 4 machines to 5), the waiting rows should diminish in time.
• But they usually don't because of other deciding factors like doctors willingness to work (use the new tools) and the amount of money used for this kind of treatment (these two are very much correlated).
• On the bright side...patients do usually get better treatment (on new devices). But the bottom line is that in the end it is all about money and how much we are willing to give it to others.
• I will go out and say that only 2% of people actually think about this topic in this way...and most of them are probably making nice profits selling medical equipment to the state.

Muskelfieber

• Is a perfect German word (I hope it is) for muscle ache.
• I'd expect it to be mainly because of yesterdays climbing trip. However:

1. My middle finger hurts from finishing Mcrae Dirt (PC game) in one day (5:30 playing time) - I got ill and angry and had relatively nothing to do.
2. My arms hurt from helping a friend move to a new apartment (carrying five suits on clotheshangers in one hand is really hard.)
3. Well, maybe my hands hurt a little bit because of climbing. But it was worth it. Furthermore, because of climbing I have gotten strong enough to open the jar of pickles all by myself.