Polmonite

Julia is ill. She had a viral infection that let her have fever and diarrea since last Thursday. After that she got a polmonite (lung infection). Since yesterday she is having antibiotics. She breaths with difficulty and she is weak. I believe things will be fine, eventually.

We did not have much sleep this Christmas.

Weekend

A quiet weekend. Milo was not feeling well, so we did not do much. We played "The colonists of Katan" or whatever the name is in English, and Milo won, without much help I must say. I've installed eMule and I have downloaded some good music:

Nils Petter Molvaer Er
Magoni e Spinetti - Musica Nuda
Dejohnette, Holland, Metheny, Hancock - Parallel realities

What is difficult to me at this moment is to find input for some new good music. Does anybody knows a good website with music recensions?

OTF rome's visit

In September the coreteam of the operational task force united for a mission in Rome. A great mission, in which we completed 42 goals and placed the start for a new global strategy. The fight against mulslim terrorism is losing pace and interest from the media, and a new enemy will be created to avoid weakening of intelligence services: the fight against the new-age terror. We believe people is looking with increased fear to the development of movements against consumption and capitalism. Meditation, Erya and macrobiotics are frightening the common people. Urgent measures are needed - the OTF will save the world again.

Briefing at: brief

Macedonian dinner - suspended

The Macedonian Dinner did not take place due to personal circumstances.

Macedonian Dinner - the proposal

Macedonian Dinner

The Macedonian Dinner will let the spirit of Alexander the Great flow through the air and fill us with contempt and happiness.

Alexander the Great has been educated by Aristoteles to the greek culture, and enjoyed to have dinners in the greek tradition. The macedonian dinner will follow therefore the ancient tradition of the symposium.

The rules of the symposioum are to be found here.

"The symposium is a collective reunion and at the same time a show, exhibition and fun, in which all the senses come stimulate you. There must be a perfect understanding between the convita, the just mixture, not only of wine and water, but also of persons. Disposition of the places is such that everyone can see everyoneelse. Symposium does never have great dimensions"

Ingredients of symposium: wine, crater, cups; music with the flautist, dance.

There will be a crater, and all the convita will be disposed around it. In the crater the ritual of cutting the wine with water will be executed.


Pindaro writes:

"Come quando tra i convitati sboccia la gioia del simposioMescoliamo un secondo cratere di canti ispirati alle Muse …".

Alexander explored the East, and let the structure of the Symposium change, allowing expecially persian influences. Therefore belly dance is an important component of our Macedonian dinner.

Let's now get to our instructions

• Carlos will be "the King", since he is the host
• Nanni will be the master of cerimony and will take care of the different part of the symposium, and their displacement in time
• Anthonis will take care of the wine, "cut it" if necessary and dispense it
• Giuseppe will take care of the food
• Men will cook. Giuseppe will cook the main dish, entree, dessert will be assigned to volunteers. One of the men will have the privilege of not cooking and providing all the drinks
• Clara will take care of getting the belly dance music
• Enith will invent and propose games
• Loes and Melina wash the dishes
• additional ideas and initiatives are welcome. Especially poetry, theather, dance, music are welcome.

Let's Alexander be with us