Toadfish Monastery

Visited my orthodontist. Found out everything's fine, he tweaked my retainer a bit, told me to make an appointment for next summer.

And told me he wanted me to get my wisdom teeth yanked before I go to college. That's gonna be fun.

Do it NOW or wait until the beginning of next summer. My Goddess-daughter had hers done 2 weeks before school started, and she was still on soft foods (just the luck of the draw, 2 dry sockets for no particular reason) when she moved into the dorm.

Don't tempt the fates. (Her VERY competent oral surgeon, also her uncle, said she just did it to make him look bad.)

I will echo Chatty's comment-- do it NOW, SOONEST, if not actually yesterday...

I had to have an oral surgeon, because of the placement of a nerve and one tooth (and they had to saw them into little slices, and remove them one slice at a time, too....)

I actually had to be put under, and I woke up nauseated to beat the band.... immediately threw up as soon as I was awake.  (they were prepared for that, it's apparently common...)

But, I was miserable for 2 weeks after, and they made a numbness in my lip that took 6 months to go away... the ortho surgeon called it nerve trauma.

The LAST thing you want for your first 2 weeks is to be worrying about misery-- it's gonna be MORE than hectic enough as it is... !

Get in your TARDIS and go back and do it yesterday!

Quote from: Alpaca on July 16, 2008, 03:27:31 AM
Visited my orthodontist. Found out everything's fine, he tweaked my retainer a bit,.

an orthodontist tweaked my retainer a bit once. I recall Jeeves was not best pleased and proceeded to land the chap with a haymaker square on the bonce.

Had an appointment with the man who was on sabbatical from the NHS. He is not on sabatical from Harley Street    What's more, I didn't have to navigate territory hostile to the sick and disabled. I just went straight in the front door. I am still completely exhausted but not traumatised as well.

More on this in the Health Threads. Later. After SLEEP. Or more accurately, after MORE sleep.

Wisdom teeth yanked.

The pond was looking rather murky with the algae , it was clogging up the pump , I couldn't see the fish and it didn't smell very good .
So I drained the pond ( 6 hours to do so) before a biomass developed and used the nutrient rich water to fertilize the gardens .

I have a UV water purifier , but have yet to find all the hardware to make the connections .

The pond is crystal clear now and the koi seem to be okay after the trauma i put them through , they scoot away when i get near them , however my neighbour saw them congregated in the shallow edge of the pond and the fish didn't move when approached ,they allowed him to "pet" them ... odd , I figure .

Out of summer session classes and back here! Yay!

Found my migraine tablets.

(behind head of bed on floor; torch needed; magnifying glass needed; all rooms searched before I had the brainwave)

~ The Watson of Sherlock

Yesterday, I finally had the server of the non-for-profit I work for moved from a shared account to a new decent server. We started on Friday night and a glitch prevented it from working until yesterday. I spent some time securing ports and incoming connections which now seem to be working.

Now I'm crossing my fingers that everything is fine.

Had my big end-of-the-everything piano recital. Lotsa fun.

Discovered that loose bits of chewed-up salad can bear a frightening resemblance to loose flaps of tissue when hanging out in the back by the wisdom-tooth-holes. That was a fun tooth-brushing session.

I had a bit of a rough day yesterday, I have finally got the wardrobes and shelves that I need in my little house at my mothers place, and spent most of yesterday unpacking things from my move 6 months ago, it was a bit emotional to say the least. Especially since I don't have room for everything I wish I had room for and all ready have thrown/given away a lot of things. The things I have left is the kind I wanted too keep for one reason or another now a lot of them has to go too.

returned to work after holiday.... why oh why oh why oh why

Went to IKEA to buy wardrobe doors amongst other things...

This past Sunday and Monday, my wife and I did something new and IMO significant: bike camping!

We rode about 20 km from our house to our local provincial park, camped, frolicked in the woods and on the beach, and then headed home in the afternoon.  No cars were involved at all, and my knees are only a little sore today.

Lessons learned for next time:

- get racks and panniers.  My old Boy Scout external frame pack is good for hiking, but not so good for biking.

- get a lighter tent.