I've been busy for the past few days, and not at my best. I had a "crown lengthening" two weeks ago, which basically means lengthening the amount of tooth above the gum line by cutting away gum tissue and (in my case, at least) shaving away some bone. The surgical site was protected for two ( Read more... )

A quick update on my mouth rehab, though it borders on TMI: About two weeks ago I had 30 new crowns installed, after fussing with a mouthful of temps for most of a month, one of which had a bad habit of coming loose while I was doing something innocuous, like chewing a chicken leg. That ( Read more... )

• Bob Halloran wrote to remind me that dual-booting Windows and Linux on a single hard drive is easy-but you have to install Windows first. When you install Linux it will see the Windows partition and configure grub so that grub will allow you to choose either OS when the ( Read more... )