• Religiously following my post-wisdom-tooth-surgery care instruction sheet.
  • Driving with an ice pack on my cheek.
  • My scientific opinion: the bacteria in yogurt are good boys and the bacteria that want to grow in my wisdom tooth sockets are bad boys.
  • Eating approximately one gallon of tomato soup (a socket-friendly food).
  • The Guardian story about Paper2017, a trade conference for the paper industry.
    • “You can’t blow your nose into an email. In the end, we are material. We have inputs and outputs. We require physical receptacles. And more of us are on the way.”