Another Week, Another Parasite / Peru don’t Know Earthquakes
This is the 8th or so “Tummy Ache” I have had since arriving in Peru, hopefully I am just working my way through the local intestinal flora. After spending a week in a parasitology lab staring at fecal samples and reading about intestinal bugs, I feel more comfortable with the pains. Really, cryptosporidia need a home too and I am very warm and moist inside. I can’t blame the little buggers for setting up camp in my intestines. I haven’t gotten too sick yet, a fact that I attribute to all of that creek water my brothers and I drank as kids, which we filtered through an abandoned window screen to purify it. Well, it looks like it primed my immune system pretty well against the worse effects of intestinal parasites.
T
There was an earth quake today, and several itty bitty aftershocks. I was out getting cash for utilities to give to my Peruvian Mother when it hit. Everyone ran panicked out of the building next to me. I didn’t notice anything out of the ordinary, since my angry stomach makes me a bit wobbly anyways, and continued my walk. The next building I walked past was similarly emptying, and everyone was yelling and looking up. I stopped to make sure that they were not watching a roof suicide, since I did not want anyone to land on me. Then I felt it. It was good sized I must say, and lasted a minute or two, but it was not worth the frantic yelling and women crying. I guess I’m just jaded towards weenie ass earthquakes since Californians build up an immunity to earthquakes. Anyways, there was no damage to buildings, no fires, nothing. Just panicked Peruvians all over the place. When I got home I found my Peruvian Mother’s dog very worried, so I solaced it. Then I found the damage… the earth quake knocked over my deodorant. So far the news doesn't report much, but the quake was damn strong in the south. At least the strongest part of the quake missed Lima, so 9 million people are safe. Keep your fingers crossed that yhe folks in the south are O.K.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6948888.stm
I was testing a battery sized automatic thermal sensor yesterday that I will use in an experiment in a week or two. I tracked my body temperature by leaving it in my pocket for 12 hours. Apparently I my leg is a constant 25 C during the day, but jumps to the low 30’s when I sleep. However, sometime before I woke up, my leg wiggled its way out of my blankets, and dropped to about 29 C for an hour. Which explains why my leg felt cold when I woke up.
Now you know.
T
There was an earth quake today, and several itty bitty aftershocks. I was out getting cash for utilities to give to my Peruvian Mother when it hit. Everyone ran panicked out of the building next to me. I didn’t notice anything out of the ordinary, since my angry stomach makes me a bit wobbly anyways, and continued my walk. The next building I walked past was similarly emptying, and everyone was yelling and looking up. I stopped to make sure that they were not watching a roof suicide, since I did not want anyone to land on me. Then I felt it. It was good sized I must say, and lasted a minute or two, but it was not worth the frantic yelling and women crying. I guess I’m just jaded towards weenie ass earthquakes since Californians build up an immunity to earthquakes. Anyways, there was no damage to buildings, no fires, nothing. Just panicked Peruvians all over the place. When I got home I found my Peruvian Mother’s dog very worried, so I solaced it. Then I found the damage… the earth quake knocked over my deodorant. So far the news doesn't report much, but the quake was damn strong in the south. At least the strongest part of the quake missed Lima, so 9 million people are safe. Keep your fingers crossed that yhe folks in the south are O.K.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6948888.stm
I was testing a battery sized automatic thermal sensor yesterday that I will use in an experiment in a week or two. I tracked my body temperature by leaving it in my pocket for 12 hours. Apparently I my leg is a constant 25 C during the day, but jumps to the low 30’s when I sleep. However, sometime before I woke up, my leg wiggled its way out of my blankets, and dropped to about 29 C for an hour. Which explains why my leg felt cold when I woke up.
Now you know.