I got an infection in one of my teeth 3 days ago. The agony slowly built to an incredulous crescendo today, so much so that I had to try and find a dentist to help me....... on Christmas Eve...........

I ended up at the local dentistry hospital where student dentists practice on you, but you don't have to pay. They decided it would be a good idea to let a student practice an extraction.

So, I now have a huge, profusely bleeding hole in my mouth, which is only marginally less painful than the infected tooth. I can't wait to try and eat my Christmas dinner tomorrow, before I go back to work........ And people wonder why I hate Christmas. It usually reserves something really cool for me like this every year.

And to top it all off, my Christmas present, a super duper new widescreen monitor, didn't arrive. So it's gonna be new year before THAT arrives.

Merry Christmas BoXXi....................... NOT!!!!