If sick, go to sick bay

Song of the week:
James Blunt - So long Jimmie

Last Thursday, it hit again: the evil Finnish flu. This time, it was so bad, that I actually went to see a doctor, and spent 4 days home and, for the most part, in bed. In my recent series of odd sickness attacks (that might be linked, I'll know that for sure next Monday), this has been the worst so far: stomach sickness that resulted in lots of throwing-up, The Headache From Hell^TM for 2 days straight, a light fever that came and went at its own accord, my throat hurt so much that even drinking tea (to calm down my stomach and to ease the pain in the throat) was close to a no-go; on top of that, my back started going wild on me because of all the lying around I exposed it to, which didn't exactly make things better.
Over the course of Sunday afternoon, the last remainders slowly left into their respective hiding spots, save for the headache, which boldly stayed until Monday afternoon. Just in time for my second date with the doc on Monday, to run some more tests in order to find out what exactly was/is wrong with my body at the moment.

My impression of the Finnish health care system so far: very thorough.
The doc told me he'd like to run "a few more" tests, if I was okay with that. Turns out "a few" relates to 7 additional tests, 4 of which needed blood samples. Results of all the tests should be ready by next Monday, so then I'll hopefully know what's wrong and if it really was just a Finnish flu-strain that wrecked me like this ... which is the result I'm hoping for to be honest!

In other news, I finally got around to getting my Finnish tax card, so I'll finally get paid for the work I'm doing.
Work has been a bit frustrating, mostly because I manage to produce more and weirder errors and bugs than all the others combined, and then some. A lot of them are very hard to reproduce (it seems there are quite a few "random" bugs), so now the senior test engineer starts rolling his eyes whenever I ask him if he could come have a look.

Also, the company is looking to hire people to work in UK; unfortunately, I'm not a senior software developer and/or programmer for linux. Too bad, really...

So much for an update. I'll try to post more regularly from now on, as long as there's stuff to write about.

Ta-taa.