Alexander's

The typical Austrian male has many peculiarities. Most of these stem from the early days of childhood, when it was still considered fun to play tricks on each other.[^1] One of the more gruesome ones is called feuchtes Fuzzi.[^2]

For this especially abhorrent technique one person licks his pinky and then tries to insert the still dripping wet, but ideally ice cold finger into the ear of his unsuspecting victim.

But enough of the totally unrelated excursus about my culture, let's jump right into the story.

For the last week or so Christof has been sick at home. This weakened him so much, that when he picked up his toothbrush this morning, he strained his back quite badly. Yet, being the honor student he is, he bravely soldiered on to university to do some light studying -- only so one of his friends, that already missed him dearly, could sneak up from behind and shake him a bit.

A classic greeting ritual amongst adolescent males in Austria and also great for the back!

Nonetheless upon returning home his back pain was so grievous, that he could hardly stand straight. Moved by his sheer unbearable suffering I decided to offer him one of my precious Japanese hot spring bathing salts. It clearly helped a lot -- in fact so much, that after only fifteen minutes of soaking in the hot water, he could return to his game of World of Warcraft instead of just lying around whimpering from the constant pain.

And whenever Christof plays Georg likes to watch. Both of them silently staring at the flickering screen is one of the most peaceful scenes I know. The monotone clicking sound of the mouse only adds to the serenity.

But today Georg got bored fast -- most likely because Christof decided to play a character Georg doesn't like -- and so he decided to do the only sensible thing in this situation.

I will end this entry with two words for you to meditate over:

primal scream

[^1]: Ok let's be fair here it's always fun to play tricks, but most of my practical jokes have matured a bit over the last few years. [^2]: This is somewhat hard to translate. A Fuzzi is an especially dainty person that makes much ado about nothing and feucht means wet. So basically it's an expression for wet obnoxious person, but the onomatopoetics also play an important role.