My family had a scare yesterday when my wife crashed on her mountain
bike, going down a steep trail. She was dizzy afterwards and had no
memory of the accident, and her friends she was riding with ended up
calling for the mountain rescue, who did a great job packaging her
up and getting her to an ambulance. After an ER visit and CT scan,
she was diagnosed with a mild concussion, and has lots of bruises
and scrapes. So she will be fine as long as she takes it easy for a
while, and of course we're thankful as it could have been much
worse. When we moved to Quebec she bought an upgraded helmet (MIPS),
because she knew how much downhill biking there was here. Given that
her injuries are not serious, I'd say the helmet worked. To anyone
riding a bike - don't skimp on the helmet.

Tomasino commented [0] on my last phlog entry [1] - first I'd like
to say thank you for the congrats, and second that I've read your
blog and the efforts you've had to go to to try and get your Italian
citizenship recognized. It must be something in common with all
immigration services. They do that thing where they ignore you for
the longest time, with no communication, and your efforts to contact
them seem to go straight to /dev/null. What helped me dealing with
the Canadian process was Canada's Access to Information and Privacy
Act (ATIP), similar to the Freedom of Information Act in the
US. Every few months I made an online request for my immigration
file, and it helped me stave off some problems since the file had
all the notes that case officers made during processing. I've no
idea if Italy has something similar, but it is worth looking
into. Best of luck!

[0] gopher://sdf.org/0/users/tomasino/phlog/20170916-response-strixy-and-slugmax.txt
[1] gopher://sdf.org/0/users/slugmax/phlog/citizenship-ceremony-immigration