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I slept for 18 hours last night — a new personal record, I think. I seem to have caught a bug that is going around. At least I hope it’s a bug, and not the H5N1 that the head of the Veterinary Association, Vida ÄŒadoniÄ? ŠpeliÄ?, decided not to warn me about.
Updates soon now:
UPDATE: The interesting thing about sleeping for 18 hours is that 18 hours of work are waiting for you when you wake up. I’m happy to report that I’m still alive, and that the virus has withdrawn, but I’m still struggling for status quo ante bellum. In the meantime, please note that this story has gotten an important update.
I should be back into the swing of things soon. Thanks to everyone for their well wishes!
UPDATE 2: The better half also got infected. I therefore have to attend to the stipulations set forth in my marriage charter, particularly Article 6, §3: "For richer or for poorer, during moments of projectile vomiting and in good health, etc…" I guess we can call it a week and pick up on Monday.
And, no, I don’t know what the little asterisks at the end of this entry are.
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Vida doesn’t really mean what she says. She is just happy to appear on TV every day, And ad long as the bird flu is around she’ll be smiling. She also said "Gloves and mask is enough to peak up dead bird" which is, by other vets, not true today any more.But don’t worry. I had 50°C fewer on Saturday, I was shaking like a mobile with vibrator, but I am OK today. And I have two birds at home (living in 3 km highly risk area) …
fewer = fever
Vida could be called ÄŒ3Š1?ps. for matej:’fewer’ - a rise of body temperature above the normal, any of various diseases of which fewer is a prominent symptom ‘fever’ - a state of heightened or intense emotional or (sexual) activity, a contagious usually transient enthusiasm ;)
fewer vs fever - michael’s site entertaining & educational, the comments also….;)
Really? Gloves and mask not enough? Who said that? forget about Vida, she did nothing wrong (at least not with the warning), people are crazy enough w/o the pre-emptive warnings.
@Michael: You needn’t worry… Compared with the two firemen who were found NOT to ne infected with the virus after handling the dead birds, you are living in a quarantine
Oh, and…. get well soon!
The problem with the firemen is not that they didn’t get the flu from the birds but if they are sick with a human influenza + have some of the H5N1 strands = that the virus could mutate into something we do not want.
With the power of soul, anything is possible! Jimi rules!!
@Bostjan: oh come on
it was a common cold
Michael, I am sending a box of Puffs tissues over. With aloe. Immediately. Or, well, as imediately as a flock of passenger pigeons can swing over your house. So, if you see any birds tied to a box flying over your house, <b>don’t shoot</b>. They are there for your succor.Get well soon!
That’s what you get for endorsing poultry in the blogosphere, my friend!
Bird Flu has reached BiH, I put something in my blog about it. I hope you don’t have bird flu and you get well soon!
michael, put your hands on the screen. touch the screen! feel the presence of our lord! heal! heal! heal!
there, that should do it. you know, jesus, he knows me, and he knows i’m good.
Oh no, The Glory of Carniola got sick! I’ll make a voodoo ritual for your recovery (just hope nothing goes wrong).
Luka - apparently your voodoo trick didn’t work :)))
Well, never mind the whirlwind of bird-flu, mad cows and all other inconveniences, Vida will look her Barbie best at all times. I bet MM doesn’t look so tip-top with a common cold.
With all due respect, but Vida will look her Barbie-at-45 best… But hey, if Michael used make-up I’m sure he’d look 22
I couldn’t decide on a proper expression. I was thinking Mid-life-crisis-Barbie, but that’s a long gone with Vida. I left it open for other comentators, and bingo … pengovsky nailed it down for me
I blush :)
You see, Michael, we actually don’t need you: 21 comments to a non-existing post …
I hope you get well soon…
I hope you are/will be doing fine soon.
Phew, there’s been an update and you didn’t write suspicious erm…avian…things like "quack, quack, chirp, chirp" or something so that’s quite reassuring, I must say.
OK, this has nothing to do with Michael’s post. It’s just a common patriotic appeal.There’s a poll going on on Italy’s "La Repubblica" webpage, on the most beautiful woman on the Olimpics. Vote for Tina Maze, so we will at least win something
http://www.repubblica.it/speciale/2006/olimpiadi/sondaggio/atlete.htmlp.s. you vote by marking the photo and then clicking VOTA at the end of the page
Ooops. I’ve missed this announcement. Glad to hear you’re on the road to recovery Michael! You’re pretty much in the clear as long as you didn’t have any roasted swans for dinner recently
With all due respetc to Tina Maze’s tender age - I voted for Kari Traa (everybody scream: Heya, Norge!), with Chemmy Alcot comming close second
What caught my eye (and consequentially my vote) was Kari in leather jacket with killer sunglasess. In the words of Austin Powers: Oh, behave!
With apologies to pengovsky and to luka, I’m not voting on that limited site. In their infinite wisdom, the Italians left off Anne Abernathy, Grandma Luge. Forget the tender age issue. Here’s a woman in her ealry fifties who’s still stoking! If she acts and looks like this in 2005, she must have untouchable in her 20’s. Come on now guys, here’s who you should be handing out wolf tickets to.
Pengovsky, you’re a traitor. The guillotine is waiting for you.
Yeah Darko, really great picture. What did we see?
@Luka: I’m single (again) so I don’t mind
I just hope Kari is there to drop the blade 
Luka,Imagination is the key to that picture. What you seemed to see was an older woman sitting on a luge preparing to rip down a wall of ice at 70 mph. With a sideways glance between the space and time continuum, what you may have seen was a voluptuous and athletic vivacious woman trapped in the body of a soon-to-be member of AARP. Well, at least that’s what I saw. Just another example of the Cruelty of God. Youth is wasted on the Young.
Michael, it’s "status quod ante bellum".
Get well soon!
Shame on you, Aurokuror, to kick a man when he’s down (not to mention when his wife - who no doubt fell ill while bridging the fjords of projectile vomit and I-don’t-even-want-to-think-of-what-else our poor MM had to offer - is sick as well.) Your grammar might also fail when you are in the grips of the gripe. Tsk Tsk.
Are you sure it’s quod? I’ve never heard that construction before.
You got it right, Michael, don’t bother, it’s "status quo ante bellum".
Well, if I’m wrong than my 4 year study of latin was completely wasted. I’m sure it’s quod.
Of course in classical latin. I don’t know what the middle ages did to the sentence. Classical authors use "quod".
K… also infected? Oooh, take good care of her and try to avoid infecting the rest of the family. Best wishes to you all.
Now, I could be wrong here (I often am…) but I thought that "status quo" would be used to indicate that things are remaining in (or in Michael’s case, returning to) the state or condition in which they previously were, but "status quod" would indicate more a case of leaving things as they were -but only temporarily - for example, until an investigation has been completed. I always took it to mean not so much a factual and permanent status, but more of a state hoped to come about. But these interpretations could come from modern legal use vs. classical latin.Holy CRAP we need a new topic….
According to my little black book of latin proverbs and sentences it is "status quo ante…" meaning "as before". "Quod" seems to reffer to an object. E.g.: "Quod cito fit, fito perit" - meaining "easy come, easy go"
That’s right, Pengovsky. "Quo" (or "quae" if it’s femmenine) is used in a reference to a noun, while "quod" is a substantivated pronoun. So, it’s "status quo ante" (but a hypothetical verbal syntagm would be "quod antes erat"). So Michael got it right.(Two years and three exams of Latin actually DID serve something.)
I’m tickled by the "smart" Google ads on this page. They begin with the best-case scenario:"Choose Tylenol for Colds"Just in case, that’s followed by a link about…"Bird Flu Prevention"If you’ve already ignored that advice, the next link offers a…"Cure for Avian/Bird Flu"If that doesn’t work, you can spend your remaining days on…"N95, N100 Respirators. Approved respirators supplied by a leading US manufacturer"
^^ BTW, the ads are different each time you view the page.
"I’m tickled by the "smart" Google ads on this page." Google can be (un)predictable sometimes:Go to US version of google and search for word ‘failure’. Be attentive to the first search returned.
matej, that’s not called unpredictability, it’s called google bombing.
OMG, Carniola is at the very bottom of the si.blogs list. Has this ever happend before?