Notes of an old refiner

Dima writes about the "Tulparcoin": he says do not touch it, not a coin, not a cent, and do not let the neighbours tell me about it. I said: I have no money to touch. He answered: that is exactly the point, Ded.

I am more interested in the plan for the visit. The boy was born on the 9th of June, and in the photographs he looks like Dima at the same age, which means like a small angry engineer. They arrive on the 12th of December, by the Almaty plane and a car through the border (still no airport, I will never stop saying it). We will have a baby in the flat, in the same room where Dima slept as a child. I need to buy a new mattress and to remove the old heater. Also to remember how to hold a baby: I held Dima in 1994 and he was lighter than a bag of cement, but just as loud.