Dates and numbers count. Ever seen "La parola amore esiste" by Italian director Mimmo Colapresti? No?

Well, my life has gone through various traumatic changes, like any life. We could better name them "turning points". The last two are bound to the date of today: July 23rd

(1) 07 - 23 - 2005
... I'll write about it someday, but not today since I got something else more urgent at the moment

(2) 07 - 23 - 2006
Yesterday I was diagnosed a bad pneumonia (Bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia - BOOP): it is good it is absolutely curable, but it is bad since potentially fatal and, in my case, originated by a very common "Commonly acquired pneumona - CAP" that has not been identified and cured for several months, too many months acutally, till the inevitable final breakdown.

The good news is that I can be cured with a 99% probability to practically fully recover. Well, well well, the even greater news is that today I am quitting smoking, after 20 years of insane numbers of cigarettes a day...