May 30, 2006
May 24, 2006
(two point) five year plan
it occurs to me that one of those things that I intended to write about and never got around to was the result of my trip to the orthodontist in early April.
To get my teeth all correctly aligned and functioning turned out to be a three-part project; two of which I was expecting, and one that I wasn't.
The first was to pull five teeth; three wisdom, one molar, and one bicuspid (not six as I'd previously thought; I was looking at two halves of one tooth). That went... okay - I escaped nerve damage and infection, lost a bunch of weight, and have awesome/awful stories to tell about the small talk that was had between the hygienist and oral surgeon as they went about the whole process (I was conscious and on Valium.)
The second is braces. They're going to be painful and awkward. There may be headgear involved, and timeframe on that appears to be in the region of two to two and a half years. Given that my jaws are apparently very well constructed, I wouldn't be surprised if they took longer.
The third, and unexpected one, is that I need jaw surgery, to move my jaws back into alignment. It shouldn't require breaking them, but I haven't seen the maxillofacial surgeon yet and don't know if that prognosis'll change. That'll happen about a year after I get the braces in, and takes about two and a half months to recover from.
and that's what I get to look forward to.
May 15, 2006
what the kids are doing with their hands
rock-paper-scissors? old and busted.
cat-tinfoil-microwave? move on over.
Cowboy-Ninja-Bear is where it's now, apparently, at. The dude includes a nine-option variant, but that's just stupid.
May 14, 2006
May 11, 2006
no-crunch diet, day 7
Boost drinks (which I've been consuming when I've been away from home)
have this really weird aftertaste of creamed corn.
the worst part is that I've been drinking the "Mocha" flavor.
it's about as bad as you think.
May 06, 2006
novel thought
not necessarily a new one, but one about novels.
William Gibson, for all his "father of cyberpunk" cred, really, really likes exploring the interface between art and technology.
...I wonder how he feels about CSS.
May 05, 2006
good / bad / ugly
the good news: I have "jaws like cement"
the bad news: I had six teeth pulled yesterday. All of them had to be broken in the socket and removed piece by piece.
the ugly: I sneezed and it looks like someone got shot in our driveway.
___
I'm not going anywhere for the next few days.
Sorry, Spence. Have a safe trip and a good night.
May 03, 2006
test
just checking something out.
there will be more of these random posts that come and go; I'm testing things out, using the "throw it against the wall and see if it sticks" method.
incidentally, it's a great way to test the doneness of pasta.
anyway:
May 01, 2006
inadvertent hilarity
April 29, 2006
wow.
that was a lot of drinking.
a lot a lot.
jesus.
also, I'm still amused that nobody told Dave about Gary.
I understand the rationale, and I appreciate that you care, but holy crap it was hi-larious to watch Dave piece things together (especially since we were playing Never Have I Ever)
also: I wrote a bunch of stuff in a post below about things that are exciting. If you want to know about them, ask me in person, because sometimes, it's better to leave stories off the internets.
April 23, 2006
posterity:
it's sort of strange to remember that the blog is more for and about me than it is about any real audience, and resultantly, I occasionally will throw down posts that are more markers for memories than intended for any real outside consumption.
I guess on the one hand, they're a peek inside my (mess of a) head, but at the same time, they're wildly incomplete, and I'm unlikely to flesh them out.
there'll be a couple backdated posts popping up here and there, but nothing too major; but if you find yourself poking through the archives and seeing a post you don't remember as being there, that's probably why.
April 17, 2006
filler.
I haven't written about anything lately, and the last two weeks have been packed full of exciting happenings, so here's an outline of what's coming, depending on how procrastinatory I feel.
things to talk about:
- last EA meeting
- production week
- tube fights
- day-of
- five things you didn't know about control
- post-fair radio
- safety meeting #1
- cleanup
- safety meeting #2
- staff dinner
- post-staff dinner happenings
- hanging with bock and andy
- birthday
- jess'
- dinner
- awards
- board games
- pancakes
April 11, 2006
whirlwind tour
there's a lot to write about, in terms of fair, and post-fair, and one certain post-fair happening, and news on the orthodontic front.
it'll come later.
birthday plans: I don't know what to do. so far, I've been invited to play board games with Jess and co, but Awards Night is also that night, and I'm not huge on taking a large posse to a house party that's not mine.
I propose a simple dinner at the Great Wall Mongolian BBQ on Broadway, before (or ideally between) drinking.
thoughts?
April 04, 2006
by the numbers:
2 hours to production week
3 days until fair
7 days until orthodontist consult
10 days until birthday (I'm thinking dinner before E7A Awards - suggestions?)
18 days until first exam
22 days until last exam
24 days until joblessness
30 days until wisdom teeth out
April 01, 2006
last night was absurd.
what started out as the intention to play manhunt and then go to liver training before going to Tim's to sleep (and then wake up and go to MexiCali) turned into the following:
- Some sort of Engineering beer garden, in which I played a low of XvSF against Alex from SUS
- Liver Training, where I paid for things, but then my money was no good, and so I got loaded on free good beer.
- I don't know what it is with me and the 29 year old guys, but I accidentally sort of almost picked one up. But then it got weird, and Tim stepped in as a Federal Air Marshal (he enforces no-fly lists) but that didn't work out too well, and he ended up coming to the party Patricia said I needed to wingman for her at, where I also ran into:
- Jack, who was drunk-tired and falling asleep on Ollie's couch, nose-cast and all
- Duck, who was approximately the same as the last time I'd seen him.
- Meg from the Bay Optical, whom I didn't recognize right away, but both of us were aware that we knew each other from somewhere, and so there was that mildly awkward sort of staredown until she said "nice glasses" and it all clicked.
I felt sort of bad when I told her that she had picked the frames I was wearing, but I'd gotten a hugely better deal elsewhere ($423+tax down to $300 all-in) and so that was a-OK with her. Bizarre, I know.
got back to Tim's at 3:30, after catching the last N22 and walking from Dunbar and 41st, and promptly fell asleep.
ye gods, guys are ridiculous.
March 28, 2006
Pt
got my first platinum card offer in the mail today.
while I realize that it's the first of many and it's successors will undoubtedly plague my mailbox and torment my shredder, the first one should be a little bit special.
so I opened it before shredding it.
whee!
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