Alright. Let’s call it late September. Anyway what do I care – in a couple of days I’ll be on a plane, playing SuperMario, eating what is technically a microwave dinner, and resisting the charms of the chubby aeroplane-shaped table clock (with blinking lights in 2 colours! only $ 49.95!) in the duty free magazine in the seat pocket in front of me.

Those of you who encountered the previous incarnation of this website may remember that what greeted you on arrival was a diabolically slow-loading animation of a depraved (and happy – let’s not forget insanely happy) tub of yoghurt, rocking energetically back and forth, shaking its fists in the air. These days the spirit lives on, and hey! I could try and learn Flash, or even revisit the GifBuilder thing, but really… no.

And now, if you will, gaze upon the toothy maniacal grin of our new RagingYoghurt mascot. Salivate at the thought of the creamy pink spurting out its head. Hold the gaze of its wild googly eye. Study, in particular, the sturdy bones of its jolly roger pose.

Are they not strong limbs? Do you not quake in your boots at their solidness? Do they not remind you of the wisdom tooth that this very afternoon was wrenched from the tenacious grip of my upper jaw bone?

Surely there is no better way to start the week than showing up at your dentist for a quickie to make sure everything’s all right before heading off into the mild blue yonder, and then having the nice lady tell you that your right upper wisdom tooth is coming in too far down and aggravating the exposed fleshy gum of your lower jaw every time you bite, and your two options are having the cusps filed down (but they’ll just keep growing down anyway), or the whole tooth extracted. Oh and by the way, when you get back from overseas you’ll probably need surgery to remove that other wisdom tooth that’s just begun poking its head? side? root?? through your lower gum.

Oh the vigourous tugging that ensued. Slippery little sucker needed several attempts with two types of pincer-tweezer-plier implements before one of them finally grabbed hold. Oh the strange creaky noises that I heard from the inside of my head.

It was pretty cool.

And it’s gonna be wonderful.

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before i had a “blog”, i used to write a sporadically updated letter on the front page of my website. this is one of them. i am consolidating it into these archives, because i can.