About nothing

It's been the fun week here in Pokhara! When you have a fever and diarrhea, not much goes on except for bowel movements. Now that I've been out of the toilet limbo for a couple days, I have some time to write as well.

The fever came on the second day after dining on a shady chicken burger at a fairly reasonable looking place in the center of the city. Actually it was more the the salad dressing than the actual burger but who really knows. All I can say really is that I've had enough of being sick. Next time I get ill, it better be six months from now or later. First couple of days were just basic hiding from the world under the blankets and running to the separated toilet every 5 minutes with the mandatory locking of the door every time. After that things started to get better, but I made the grave mistake of lusting after something greasy and salty and so went to have breakfast. Turns out that when your just coming out of diarrhea, last thing you should eat is bacon and hash brown potatoes. Well actually this wasn't all that new information for me but I just couldn't help myself. And so I banished myself to few more days of bed rest after which things have started to get better.



When your in the recovery process you have lots of time to read which is fast becoming one of my favorite hobbies (Thanks Sas!). After reading the Bill Bryson book A Short History of Nearly Everything, I kinda got stuck on the science thing and so the next couple of books have been also about the subject. Last one finished was one by David Bodanis entitled E=mc2 - a biography of the equation and it was written so that it's very readable and contains funny facts the same way the Bryson book does. Will not go too much into detail here but just want to let you know that energy and mass actually are the same thing in different forms! Read the book and learn more. After that I took a big leap of fate and decided to tackle Stephen Hawkins and his book A Brief History of Time. They guy wouldn't be that much of a challenge but the book... Even though its been written for the general audience, it is definitely more harder to follow than the previous reads. It's clearly not meant to be as funny but still is very informative and interesting (If you can understand it that is...)

Thats all for now. No real adds in the photo section at this point hopefully lot more to come soon!

More pictures at:
http://picasaweb.google.com/timo.laaksonen/