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So, the UN is appointing a head of aliens relations. (*)

Mazlan Othman of Malaysia, director of the UNOOSA is now the appointed space ambassador for alien affairs. The UNOOSA? The UN Office for Outer Space Affairs, duh.

I have only one gripe about this: I saw V. I know that the one welcoming the lizards is a Swede. He even speaks Swedish.

* So, this seems to have been a 100% fabricated piece of "news". Sunday Times seems to be the culprit, making up news out of thin air. UNOOSA still exists and Othman is its head, but there's no "space ambassador".

The proper way to greet aliens is still in Swedish.

Update: This piece of news has now risen to The Onion. How cool is that? "News" propagating from The Onion, that I've heard of, preferably by way of Chinese authorities. But "real news" achieving "unreal news" status, that's new to me. Maybe that ask the people thing is always based on real news, I just don't read the Onion enough to know.

Wrath, clenched teeth

Eight or nine months have passed since I quit smoking, and about three since I started working out. Since the beginning of June I've been working out or trying to do real physical labor more or less every day. The only exceptions I have allowed myself have been days when I've been in too much pain to do anything. Along with my neighbor, friend type dude, Patrik, I had decided to sign up for an event this past weekend, a piece of new highway being taken into use and they were holding a competition event before letting the cars on. Runners, cyclists, inliners, wheelchairs and roller skiers.

And what do you know, I come down with a freaking cold. My frustration made me very irritable the whole weekend. By Monday, I was getting all itchy just because I hadn't been working out for 5 whole days.

Patrik found another event next weekend, right on election day. So now I'm dead set on doing that. Nothing's gonna stop me this time. Did a few kilometers earlier this evening - cold, almost dark, stormy and rainy. Ick.

Damn it felt good afterwards. Soon it'll be even colder and darker, and then I'll kick on the sauna before I head out. Hah, take that, darkness.