Not as bad as they say!

Recenlty I've had two wisdom teeth removed, twice... Uhm, rephrasing that: they removed two wisdom teeth last week, and did the other two the day before yesterday. And after all the horrible stories I had heard, last week's were a piece of cake! Okay, there was some swelling, there was some blood coming out of different orifices (well, nose and moth, mostly), but I felt I was quite able to go back to work three days later, as long as I wouldn't laugh, grimace or exert myself.

This week, however, I realised that last week's experience was actually relatively severe: Now I have much less swelling and 24 hours after the surgery, I felt like was ready to go back to work!!! Oh, and only blood coming out of my mouth this time, and not too much of it at that... However, following doctor's orders means I have to apply cooling semi-continously for the first three days, and since there is no freezer available at work, I have to stay at home. The fact that it is pissing it down with rain and that cycling to work would have been terribly unpleasant is only tangentially related to that! (in fact, I had a check-up at the dentist at 9am, so I got soaking wet anyway, twice).

Before all this teethy happiness, we had Lou, Micky and Gerry visiting us two weeks ago. We had a fabulous time, mostly Karaoke-based. Of course karaoke at Mauerpark, but also a proper night in a proper karaoke-bar. Absolutely hilarious: I had never realised that doing karaoke was this much fun!!! It'll be a keeper.

In between, I've been really busy with travelling and work: After Bristol, there was Amsterdam for a conference, Frankfurt for the medical check and an unannounced trip to Brussels to replace my boss at some networking meeting. And of course, in the meantime, other requests and things pile up as well... At least my colleague Marc has returned, so I can dump some things in his lap too...

Regarding Kathmandu: no news yet. Tuesday, I will be doing a Skype interview, hopefully there will be some real news after that!!! Let's wait and see (I am getting impatient: Fedor is being driven up the walls)

Tschüßi,
OJ