Bulk Up!

I have not gone to the gym since forever. I just don't have the time nor the "energy" to do some serious workout and maybe pump iron. I still jog but it has not been regular because every time I am all set to jog, it rains. Oh well.

My son has been regularly working out. But it looks like he is a hardgainer - a person who can't add bulk no matter what. I guess my son's diet is erratic since I don't cook for him during weekdays. He lives in an apartment with two other guys and only comes home on weekends. I saw him reading an article about meal replacement meals and such last weekend. He even told me that his friend read some noxycut reviews and is seriously considering taking the diet pill with a "difference". It claims to change fat to muscle, just like that! Oh come on!

Yes Doctor!

The dermatologist's secretary is a good friend of mine. We have not seen each other for almost three years. She said I look fine, complexion included. However she noticed that my eyelids cannot defy gravity at its maximum level (this is one great way if saying I have folds of extra skin on my eyelids) and that there are now traces of "darkness" around my eyes.

Being the secretary of an esteemed dermatologist, my friend feels that she has earned the right to diagnose my "affliction". She said that I have to consider blepharoplasty (eye bag removal and eyelid surgery) for no amount of gravity-defying eye cream and not even the best eye cream for dark circles can do wonders for my about-to-be-droopy eyes. I stared at my friend and that was when I noticed that she dang had the double eyelid surgery.

Well, I think I'll ask D1 about the procedure. I wonder how much it would cost.

What bit you?

Ethan's allergy is acting up again. It is not your ordinary food or dust mite allergy that commonly leads to asthma. It is a different kind of allergy called papular urticaria. It is a skin disorder where papules develop because of hypersensitivity reaction to insect bites. Ethan has been diagnosed with this dilemma since 2006 and for almost four years the first incidence was not repeated until our Coron, Palawan trip. I have no idea what bit Ethan in Palawan but whatever that was brought about the recurrence of the allergy. The allergy was not evident for some time after mid May but it hit again mid June. It was back to the dermatologist for Ethan and back to that tiring cream application and plastic-wrapping thingy for the bites.

We were at the dermatologist's clinic the other day for Ethan's check up. Seated with us in the waiting room were two teens with faces filled with red and angry acne. Ethan looked at the two and asked them"What bit you?" Was I glad when the doctor called Ethan's name.

Short Line, Long Wait!

Everything is digital. Stores, schools, health care facilities, organizations and companies are using digital technology for a better and faster processing of whatever it is they want to process.

What irks me though is there are still some grocery stores that insist on punching in the code of each item on a cash register. I was in a hurry to buy some items the other day and was forced to stop by the grocery store near Ethan's school. As luck would have it the 6 cashier counters all had a short line of customers. I looked at the carts of the customers in line and noticed that their carts were not brimming with items. I thought the wait will be short based on the grocery items of the customers in line. I was so wrong. It took forever! The cashiers do not have scanners in their counters. They have to manually do the encoding and fast as they were they would have been faster if only they had even an ls2208 scanner. This type of scanner is less than 7,000 PHP. Surely the owner of the grocery store could afford to buy six of this.

Now I know why few chose to shop at that grocery store.

VGA CAbles: Not Guilty

I had to rearrange the basement yesterday. I have an architectural job in the offing and there is an urgent need for me to clear the cobwebs that have gathered under my drafting table. It is not that I have not been doing any architectural works of late it's just that the work that I've been doing were interior decorating-related and those kind of job does not entail me going full-time drafting.

The basement is actually clean and in order. The one that is not is my part of the basement where my drafting table is. I unhinged the table and tried to move the drafting surface. It won't budge. It was stuck at about 45 degrees and how the heck can I draft and draw at that angle? I probed under and at the sides of the table and lo and behold, my son's 20 feet vga cables were hooked under the drafting table. I gathered the cables and set it on one side. Little did I know that I accidentally disturbed its connection to the modem. Crap! I don't want to go through the motions of reconnecting the thingy as it would take me forever to run the cables along the baseboard. As far as I know, I am not guilty.