And to commemorate that anniversary, some had a great idea. ( Why not use the most recognizable icon in Buenos Aires? )

BUENOS AIRES (AFP) - Paleontologists unearthed a flesh-eating dinosaur some 150 million years old in southern Argentina with all its joints in place, the first time such a beast has been dug up so intact, one of the finders told AFP on Friday.

The seven-meter (23-foot) tall, two-legged dinosaur, dubbed the Condorraptor, was found fossilized with parts of its jaw and head showing in rock near the village of Cerro Condor in Patagonia, at a site where paleontologists had been working for five years.

"It is an unprecedented discovery. It is the first time in the world that a carnivorous dinosaur of the Middle Jurassic period has been found fully jointed," said Pablo Puerta, a paleontologist at the Egidio Feruglio museum in the town of Trelew.

Working in the southern province of Chubut, the team led by the German dinosaur specialist Oliver Rauhut uncovered the fossil using a giant crane to shift rock.

Puerta said it will take about a year to fully uncover the dinosaur. It could then go on display at the Trelew museum.

From Yahoo!.

And because I haven't done a proper update in quite a while. :)

How's everyone doing? I'm doing great - vacations can do wonders for people! I was doing pretty well, just playing lazy for two weeks before I had to go back to work and face the fact that, most likely, the place is going to close at the end of the year, when my body played this tiny little dirty trick on me yesterday: I felt like crap. I don't know to put it, because I have no idea what happened to me, but I was dizzy, my whole body ached, I felt feverish and I spent most of the day in bed. Could it be that my 100th attempt to start a diet this year got me sick? LOL

Believe me, I felt horrible. I began to feel ill on Monday night and went to bed early, but couldn't fall asleep because I was cold - fever, obviously; I've lost the count of how many blankets I have in my bed! When I finally fell asleep, I woke up about three times during the night, and ended up getting up at 5 AM because I couldn't sleep anymore. I watched some TV, hoping to get sleepy again, but instead, I began to feel bad again, so once again, back to bed.

That was pretty much my day. I got up for about two hours and chatted with epee_girl, but I had to go back to bed. Last night I was sure I was going to feel even worst today, but guess what? I'm much better :D Oh, I still feel a bit dizzy, and my back still hurts like yesterday, but I'm definitely doing better. I was supposed to go to my sister's house today and pick up some important mail (they are away on vacations) but I prefered not to. Tomorrow I hope to feel even better and then I'll go.

Talking about my sister... As I said before, they left last wednesday on vacations. They went to Buenos Aires for a couple of days and now they're in Córdoba. The province of Córdoba could be considered the bridge to the north of the country, I guess. So, with that in mind, they did something we have been wanting to do for a long time: going to Sumampa, a little town in the province of Santiago del Estero where my dad was born. ( Check the map for some geographical info )

The idea was to try and find copies of my dad's birth certificate, and probably a copy of my grandparents' wedding certificate, anything that could be useful to try and find out where my grandfather came from (we know he was Lithuanian, but that's it). Also, we're trying to see if it's possible to apply for the Lithuanian citizenship. So yesterday, after this more than quick trip to Sumampa (I guess spent about two hours there LOL), my sister called me and told me that she had got copies of our dad's birth certificate and copies ouf our grandfather's death certificate (what's the right name for that in English?). Both things are great for our plans, and even better, my grandfather's certificate even has his mother's name. Now that's more than we expected! Apparently, our surname (or the most similar form in Lithuanian) is quite common and it made very hard to find the right person who could be any sort of relative. But now, with this new info, who knows? :) I'm a genealogy freak, can you tell? LOL

So, after leaving Sumampa in a rush, guess who kept smsing me to tell me he was bored to death? Yep, Santiago, my dear nephew. He was SO bored he had hijacked my sister's phone and kept smsing me things like "HELP! I'M BORED! RESCUE ME!" LOL After three messages I supposed she caught him and he sent me a last message "I can't send any more messsages. Bye" Ouch! LOL

I guess that's about it... I haven't done really much but try and get some rest - the second half of the year is going to be... *shivers*

Allright. I found this once in the paper a long time ago and I intended to type it here, but lost the article. Now I found it in GEO and I had to translate it and post it here (so ignore all the mistakes I surely made :P). It's quite funny if you stop to think about it! :P

( Argentina’s National Ant team, a great team. )