Friday, September 12, 2008

"Me and Armini" and the Walkup


Is it worthwhile to examine the ultimate fate of her home with the lop-sided landscaping partially shaded by an ivy-encrusted, infested Wild Cherry? Slow to be dealt its due, the tree has been raining its galled leaves and caterpillar lacework onto the slab concrete of a walkup framed by sad, mown-over stubs of varigated grass. The residence
hasn't seen any sustained improvements to the exterior since they bought the place twelve years ago, since their habits have been to move somewhere else when the bones of the house have suffered a thorough beating by the frustrated foreign bodies damned and (dis)lodged together (again).

In the dim light of evening, she notices the boxwoods, which over the years becoming diseased and dispatched by degrees, leave their blanched brains
beyond the reach of a solar light source staked somewhat haphazardly in the groundcover. There, the detailed feeds upon and feebly penetrates the shade zone. Wire grass, convolvulus and iris splittings grapple with the ivy planted underneath two winestained Japanese maples.
One thriving, one stunted, they complete a cultivated assymetry of the inhabitants themselves.

4 comments:

Σφιγξ said...

Actually, the one that is keeping me up at night is next Monday, September 22. The subject matter below will prolly give you an idea:

I had a presentation today that I somewhat wrecked toward the end...I hold the five cups of coffee and three brownies for breakfast responsible. Caffeine and chocolate together synergize my 5 am wake-up, along with Lulu grabbing a cashmere sweater from a drawer, and dragging it across my bed and floor.)

I was explaining that a missense mutation of the recombination activation gene RAG-1 does not/sporatically trigger(s) V(D)J recombination to fashion site-specific T cell receptors and immunoglobulins (bound on the membranes of B cells). As a result, lymphocytes identify only a few antigens, which allow opportunistic infections to thrive.

A trait of Omenn's severe combined immunodeficiency is hypereosinophilia with elevated serum IgE and low/absent IgA, IgM, IgG. Eosinophils can be induced to degranulate (scattering histamine and the attendant inflammation) by IgE antibodies by binding to Fc receptors. The mechanism is not really known, why IgE can drive up the eosinophil count or vice-versa. Anyway, I shuttered to a pause when I was asked to correlate the IgE and eosinophils since I implied that one drives up the other... So it goes.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=imm.section.1722

Σφιγξ said...

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00011-023-01690-7

Σφιγξ said...

Since that rashy episode in 2020, I doubled my K2D3 supplementation, and I have made a habit of getting more sunlight, with no relapse of symptoms. Recall, one could not exit the house to take a walk without a mask and marked suspicion. Madness.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1658387617300936

I read the number that comes to mind upon waking, and this one has "without gain" and "bowed" in it.

https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/16265/jewish/Chapter-44.htm


Late December and January is the time for the puzzler to take an inventory, and pass along the completed work; after receiving the new works for winter. I will have to clear my dining table and find the organizational bins for this one, which came to me, unbidden:


https://www.thepuzzlecollections.com/product/ravensburger-colin-thompson-bizarre-town-5000-piece-puzzle/

I am sitting in bed reading the texts.

Σφιγξ said...

https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/16325/jewish/Chapter-104.htm