Mikael Fernstrom

>So… I’m due for the final and ultimate root canal job. This time with a specialist in Ennis! I was up there during the week for examination, and he sure has the right gadgets, but IMHO that’s what I’d expect. While he explained the procedure fairly straight, I’ve decided I’ll need some extra sedative to actually go through with this. I’m picking them up tomorrow morning. Annette has agreed to drive me there, and Mona has agreed to support me. They both suspect that post-surgery, I’ll ask them to stop at every pub between Ennis and Limerick for a pint, as sedatives, they tell me, has this effect on me. Let’s see…

>I went up to Ennis today to see the specialist who’d sort out my root canal problem. After examination, and yeee this guy had the widgets, we agreed that next Tuesday, I’ll take my sedatives and he’ll drill through my jaw for 2 hours. If we’re lucky, it’ll work. If not, I won’t be able to talk about it.

>I have the most amazing neighbour, Donal. He’s a mechanical engineer, making prototypes for all and everybody. I gave him a drawing yesterday afternoon and today he called in with the finished design, in triplicate! Top quality, exactly to spec, just fantastic…

>After all the troubles with air travel through the UK in the past week or so, I think we may have discovered the ultimate plot. It is suspected that the Queen of England, Elisabeth the II, is in fact an Arab in hiding! The name Elisabeth (or Elizabeth) is in fact the English form of the Hebrew name, El Isheva. So, our best advice to MI5,6 and whatever numbers they are using nowadays is – go arrrest the Queen. She might not be whom you think she is…

>From tonight, my wife will be sleeping with Darth Vader – to-be. Me. After being diagnosed with 25% sleep apnoea, I finally received my magical machine today that hopefully will force air down my nostrils while the rest of my body has forgotten how to breath, while sleeping. Either it works, and I’ll be very happy, or it doesn’t and I’ll have to start a new research programme into cyber-remedies for sleep apnoea.

>For the last few weeks, we’ve been hearing what sounds like a distant gunshot when we’re sitting in our garden. It goes BANG every 70 seconds. From my subjective judgement, it might be anything from 350 to 1000 meters away, in the direction of Castleconnell. We don’t have a clue what the hell it is. Even the most ambitious hunter would not be able to afford that many clay pidgeons. If anybody has an idea what it is, please let me know.

>It’s interesting to have a holiday, This morning, I had an appointment with my dentist. An hour later, we had completed stage one of a serious root-canal project. Yikes. I had my lunch, trying to avoid to eat my own lips and tongue, while the anesthetic was wearing off.
Later today, I continued the project re-making our kitchen (with the help of Mona and Annette). After standing on a ladder for hours, I’ve discovered hundreds of neglected muscles…. But, the kitchen looks nice 😉

>This is a film, mixed reality with animation, from 1974 (may translate as ThunderBlob). Way back, I only saw it once. Still, I remembered the main story, characters and theme music. I’ve been trying, for years, to get a copy and finally Ulrika and Paul managed to get me a DVD with this fantastic film. The main forces behind it was Per Åhlin and Beppe Wolgers.

>Over the past few days, the weather in Limerick has been – VERY WARM. Today we had + 30C. I know that many people would doubt this, but it is true. Sun has been shining, blue sky, too hot… If this is the start of Global Warming, I don’t want to see it through.

>Last night I completed the first stage of a sleep study, trying to figure out if I suffer from sleep apnoea. Just before going to bed, I put on all the sensors of a Viasys data logger.
This morning, in the Regional Hospital in Limerick, I got the print-outs. I snored 1405 times last night.
I guess this looks like a problem.