Trip around the world I've just read about couple that took a round-the-world trip. It took them 1,5 years and 11 000$ for each person. They resigned and didn't work during travelling, only studed a bit. After trip they had got enough money for year of rest. Really I envy them a little. When I collected a rather large sum of money I spent it for purchase of real property for me and my family and for studing. Maybe one day I will be able do something like that - just say my job "good by" and go around the world. I'd like to see North and South America, Canada, take a long trip across the Europe and have a journey in the most wild places in Russia like Altay, Kamchatka, Chukotka.

Having a cold Suddenly it became cool outside and now I have the flu. Sometimes I like to be ill with something simple like a common cold, as it's a way to spend time in a bed without doing something. You can watch films, read books and nobody, even your own conscience, don't tell you to wake up and to do business. It's like a mini-vacation. But these days I have to work, so it is not easy to force my brain work and make progress in even simplest issues. I'm looking forward for weekend.

Knowledge will save the world Yesterday I had a meeting with an interesting person: an organizer of enlightening project, which started some years ago as a group in a social network. Now it incorporates 200 volunteers and tens of thousands followers in three social networks. Young Russian scientists tell about space research, neurobiology, mathematics, engineering and so on. Last year they conducted 170 lectures in many cities, made a lot of videos and published some books. I hope I join them as a project manager because I like this project and I was said they needed that skills.

Impoliteness I meet the opinion that Russians is not polite, that we tell in English roughly, too straight. It may be so, but it is not because the national traits, it's because the language. Some polite expressions in Russia sound impolitely after literal translation into English. For example "Do I open the window?" is polite enough in Russian, but it is not appropriate in English. And if I say in Russian "Would you mind opening the window?" literally it sounds too much polite, even old-fashioned. It's really mportant to know rules of polite speech in another languages not to be confused. But, to be honest, in this case it maybe also something from national traits - we used to express more straight.

Flashes in the sun My friends in Facebook write about headache they suffer these days. The news says it's because the sun puts out flashes. They impact on magnetic fields and in that way on blood density. And people with not good blood vessels have troubles like enourmous headache. It's really uncomfotably to be depend on the sun activities. No chance to change or avoid that. Maybe someday somebody wll invent something like a little device to protect from magnetic influence.

Accept the reality This moment I'm reviewing my life's plan. I'm crossing out or correcting some dreams and ideas. It is not easy to accept the restrictions of life. Threre are three disabled persons in my family and this is the fact. So it's unlikely that some day I can have completed "travelling for three months through America" or "have the expierence of living in another country". Ok, there are a lot of another interesting items but nevertheless it's a little sad.

If not now than when? It's my first attempt to write a diary in English. I do not claim a great aim. Suppose it would be enough good if I write something every day. May be three or four sentences about my life, my thoughts an senses or about any trffles. So, that's enough for the first time)