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Root canal

January 9, 2007 | 1 comment

Apparently my New Years resolution isn’t going that well, but I guess most people don’t get that far either.

I got a much needed root canal on my broken molar yesterday. It hurt like a bitch, but I got some nitrous oxide (to keep me from going berserk when they pulled a needle on me) so I didn’t really care. It got me out of work for a day too. And thanks to my lovely Vicadin prescription, I can get out of doing too much for a while.

Laughing gas sure lives up to its name, though. It didn’t take long to kick in, and it was much, much better than any of the drugs I used to do. In fact, if I had access to it back then, I wouldn’t have ever done anything else. Everything felt all “floopy”, I kept fading in and out of cohesive thought, and everything was funny. I felt like my mind was running a kilometer a minute, but in hindsight I don’t think it was running at all, it was barely taking a leisurely stroll.

For some reason everythign reminded me of the old game Blaster Master. Now I have to go download myself an emulator.

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All I want for X-Mas is my back left molar

December 13, 2006 | No comments

Our Kwanzaa party at work was Sunday. I had a fun, though due to the fact that I moved to working overnight again, I didn’t get to help plan it after all. I won a $50 Visa gift card, which is going to buy people X-Mas gifts.

My bottom left molar, which needed a root canal thanks to my wisdom tooth growing into it, fell apart. I was eating a piece of cornbread Monday and it seemed crunchier than it was supposed to be. A little bit later I was running my tongue over my teeth because it felt like something was caught in them, and I noticed my tooth was sharp. It turned out that a quarter of the damn thing just fell off, and I didn’t even notice! Probably not good, but I have a dentist appointment coming up pretty soon.

Our on-demand TV has just restarted several of HBO’s shows, and I am surprised by the quality of their programming. Six Feet Under is my favorite show so far, but Curb Your Enthusiasm is funny as hell too, and (despite the fact that I am a guy) I also love Sex and the City. Not the best of their shows, but you should still watch it if you haven’t before. I can’t wait for The Sopranos to start from episode 1 in January. I hear it is the best show ever.

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Like pulling teeth.

December 7, 2004 | No comments

I finally took the time to sit down and write an entry, but due to a TxP plugin that I hadn’t tested, it was lost in the cyber-ether. Ugh.

Got my wisdom teeth pulled yesterday. It was kinda cool. Due to my belonephobia, the doc gave me a Xanax so the needle wouldn’t freak me out. And it didn’t, I don’t think. I only remember like ten minutes of the entire day because I was so drugged though. It doesn’t really hurt, but it was annoying when I tried to eat pizza this morning, and had to use tweezers to pull crust out of holes where my teeth used to be.

We hired a new graveyard shift guy, so hopefully I will be getting a normal (?) schedule now. Though I must say I am coming to distrust anyone who applies to work my shift — there is something wrong with them!

I turned $2 into $150 thanks to the generosity of the State Lottery Commission, so I have a good chunk of my Christmas shopping done. Tomorrow I get my fat-ass-thirty-two-hours-of-time-and-a-half paycheck so I can do the other half.

Got my brakes fixed. My car stops now. And the peasants rejoice.

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