Whellp, today I visited my dentist. What you say? Yes, it's true. After a hiatus of 12 years TdC goes to the dentist. The man was nice enough. He hums while he works, which is both comforting and disturbing, and after an x-ray and some pottering about in my mouth with sharp pointed whiny, whirry and sucky things as he removed 12 years of plaque, he sent me on my way!

No cavities, breakages or any nasty things! Come back in a year, he tells me, and I'll have a look at that wisdom...

Went for the first proper little ride of the year yesterday! The average temperature here in Holland went over 10C briefly, allowing me to overcome my natural aversion to riding in the cold so I went outside on the bike.

As I already knew that my condition would be shit for not biking since....ohh the end of September last year or thereabouts I had decided to take it easy and just see what happened. Sadly partially due to the nice weather, and partially due to me being enthusiastic...

as I now have an exploding head due to a wisdom tooth coming through. well, it's not as much the tooth that is hurting but more my gum, which appears to have exploded to let the vile thing out into the open.

anyway, I am up for a dentistry appointment on march 5th at 09:15! wish me luck :/

In a spew of unadulterated glee, I've bought my computer upgrade of the last two years -which will hopefully last well into the coming two (I wish)

After some final questions, in which fellow Freddies played an invaluable part (as usual) I've done and gone got the following, Jimbo:

• Antec Sonata Plus (550W, 3x 3,5", Black⁄Silver)
• Asus GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB DDR3 (PCI-e, 2x DVI) EN8800GTS⁄HTDP⁄512M
• GigaByte GA-P35C-DS3R, P35 (ATX, DDR2⁄DDR3, Sound,

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Lateral movement. Why is it so hard for certain people to get through their heads that changing lanes without signaling is breaking the law? Not to mention bloody damned irritating to drivers overtaking at the time (aka me). Ooh, is that car I've nearly overtaken just swerving slightly in the wind, or is he just about to pull out in front of me?

Also, it seems that people in large SUV's and expensive station wagons who do it especially. Why is that? Does your hugely expensive gas-guzzler...