Monkey On My Back

[liralen]

Finally got past a bit of a barrier about my dental stuff. I'd had a bad experience with a dentist in the spring, and finally got around to finding a new one, and doing all the things that I needed to do to get all my records to a new place that someone I really do trust a great deal recommended. I'd been thinking, nearly all summer about the fact

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[2metaldog]

F: false
E: evidence
A: appearing
R: real

And that's why that is such a powerful emotion and often holds people paralyzed.

[liralen]

Amen, sister!

[rmd]

YAY TF2!

Plus the other stuff, but, yay engineers! (I usually play engineer or pyro)

I'm on steam as rmd1023 if you want to friend me.

[liralen]

Yay! Yay! Yay!!! Engineer really does fit you. And I do love playing pyro. *grins*

I have sent the invitation!! Oh, it is fun to know that you play, too!!

An Instrument of Heaven's Will

[amberley]

Just goes to show how well a project can go when you staff Engineers appropriately.

Have you considered getting Mimi hooked on TF2??

MvM is Mann vs. Machine? Where the author of The Magic Mountain fights the steam drill but dies in the end?

Yay overcoming fears to achieve desired ends!

Re: An Instrument of Heaven's Will

[liralen]

*laughs and laughs* I was thinking that about the staffing... and staffing compatible engineers, too...

I have not considered getting Mimi hooked on TF2. I suspect that she would be as horrified as you might be if I considered getting you hooked on TF2, if not more so as she's mildly phobic of computers... *blinks mildly at that*

Yes! MvM is Mann vs. Machine! But I suspect a mildly different plot... where half a dozen mercenaries with nigh on infinite, if oddly timed, reincarnations go up against thousands of robots; and they all die spectacularly.

And, yes. Yay! Yay! Yay!

Re: An Instrument of Heaven's Will

[liralen]

And, yes, that quote from the I Ching is such that I'm saving it for writing inspiration as well, as it is a mighty fine character concept....

[tagryn]

Yay! to the dentist stuff. I sometimes feel that between my brother and me, I got the better hair while he got the better teeth (I leave to others to decide which of us came out ahead), so I'm well familiar with the chair. Very grateful for modern dental numbing...and, may all our cavities be on the upper teeth.

[liralen]

*laughs* I'd prefer not to have any more cavities... but so it is...

And the dentist has said that I don't need the filling, but do need the crown replacement and really need a better cleaning than the one the dentist I didn't like could have given me. And that is pretty spendy. *sigh* Still... it'll help. So I've scheduled the cleaning and am thinking of when to do the crown.

Yes. I am grateful for numbing abilities...

[tagryn]

Also, I could totally relate to the experience of stressing about having to call about the records transfer. My previous dentist made me VERY stressed out; he had a very peculiar personal manner which made me uncomfortable in a lot of ways. I finally decided, hey, I'm *already* tense because you guys are going to be messing with some organs which have rather sensitive nerve endings in them, I don't need to be worrying too about trying to get along with the dentist (when I'm the one paying for it

[liralen]

Exactly that with the transfer, and that's exactly the problem I had with the first dentist I tried after my dentist had quit the office I was going to... it's that rejection anticipation.

Neat that you are comfortable now! The new dentist I got to see Wednesday does inspire a lot more confidence in me, so I'm going to see how it turns out.

[archangelbeth]

Yay, game! Yay many other things, too. O:> (I am short on sleep this whole week, and my vocabulary for being supportive is... verra smaaaaalll...)

[liralen]

*hugs you happily*

I hope you get some more sleep!! Yes, the gaming has been wonderful, and I'm getting good enough at the mere play to actually see more of the big picture on the overall strategies and stories from the chaos of the games themselves.