Had a dental hygienist appointment this morning. I was all braced for kindergarten teacher-style admonishments, but none came. The cleaning was maybe the easiest I can remember. I guess the prescription toothpaste and the day guard (which I actually use about one day in four as a night guard, shhh, don't tell) have paid off. I don't feel like I can ( Read more... )

The water heater saga continues. I went down there to empty the bucket and saw a jet of water, like maybe the size of one shaft from a shower head, shooting out from the side of the drain valve, with enough force to reach the wall. Gah. I contained the leak as best I could, ran upstairs for the last shower and shave I may have for a couple days, ( Read more... )

Holy Toledo. A lot of stuff happened in the past few weeks, much of it already forgotten. Any one of them warrants a post of its own, but I'm not interested in boring the tens of people who read this, so here's an assortment of bite-sized bits ( Read more... )

I had any number of things I wanted to do, some of them were even constructive and stuff. But the out-like-a-lion snowstorm made me all cocoony, so I just hung out and drank really strong beer. The reviews in the link are crap. This is really strong beer. That's all that matters ( Read more... )

I have now gone to the dentist twice in two days. Well, that's kind of inevitable when you haven't been to the dentist in seven or eight years. I kept thinking I was going to get dental insurance again, just about any day now, but employers kept declining to hire me permanently, and it just kind of dragged on and on. Things had advanced to a ( Read more... )