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By the time I got back from the oral surgeon, I was awake, and I thought "ooh, it's worn off totally this time". No such luck! Within an hour or two I was zonked out and didn't get up until half an hour ago. No dinner for me... which isn't good, since I didn't have breakfast or lunch either.

I didn't realize that the difference was that the first few times I had oral surgery with a general, I was living 10 minutes from the surgeon. This meant that I arrived home still groggy, and went right to bed. I never experienced the brief wake-up period. According to my diary, wisdom tooth #2 came out in Feb '02, but I don't remember it much. It seems I was also ill at the time :)

I wanted a pretty basic model--no wireless, but a couple of shortcut keys would be good. Soon found one, $14.99. Had a poke at the sample model and the keys seemed OK, so there we go.

One problem: it has an odd layout. it seems to be some kind of US/Euro hybrid. It has a backslash key in the normal American place, on the right. Since the Enter is double-height, it cuts off the right shift key. I've seen that before, though, so the keyboard can have a double height enter without having a tiny backspace key. Fine. But then there's ANOTHER key marked backslash/pipe, between z and left shift (cutting off that shift key, too)--where a British keyboard would have it (IIRC, our backslash key is where the Brits have their # key), which would allow for a 102 key layout (or whatever it is when you add on the Windows keys). it doesn't do anything with my Linux US layout, though.There's also a Euro sign printed on the 5 key (as well as 5 and %).

Main complaint so far: the Caps Lock key seems to be a tiny bit larger than my old one, so I keep hitting it when I mean to hit A. And the keys require a harder strike than my old one (possibly also because it's new). I'm downstairs right now as I'm used to this keyboard and can type faster on it. ;-)

front lip still disgustingly swollen, and I can't use my front teeth, so I can't eat anything that requires too much chewing. Pasta's about as hard as I can get. My grandma got bagels and lox this morning. How cruel can you get?!

I'm now on my 3rd glass of piña colada mix (homemade--the secret ingredient is some vanilla Haagen-Dazs. Not enough to make it a milkshake, just enough to make it creamy. And it's just the mix, because I don't think alcohol and codeine is a good combination.)