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Having a reasonably good week. Mostly Mom has been ok. She freaked out the other day for no discernible reason, but I guess she's over it now. My mood pretty much depends on hers; if she's pissed off, I take the brunt and can't seem to shake it, so I'm glad she's been mostly ok.
Health-wise, had some dental work done this week. Despite 4x per year cleanings for the last five years, I finally needed another gum scaling procedure done. Had part one on Monday, and part two on Thursday. Was sorta fun to see my hygienist twice -- we always chat a lot (probably too much to get stuff done quickly) and she was very complimentary about my weight loss. The procedure was pretty easy: they've gone fairly high-tech, with some topical gum-numbing agent, and an ultrasonic device that gets plaque off and sprays in antiseptic solution under the gums. Nasty tasting, but no pain really. I'm on antibiotics for two weeks (six days to go, sigh) and then in six weeks I see the perio guy so he can tell me what the next step is. I hate gum disease. Expensive and scary!
Also health-wise, I was reviewing my 101 in 1001 days list today. Managed to cross off a TON of stuff in the Lose Weight / Get Fit / No Pain / Look Better category, including get diabetes under good control, eat breakfast every day, cut back on Diet Coke, keep up with meds, eat better and make late night snacks healthful, etc. It's 1001 days on November 1, so I have a bit more to go — maybe I can get more done by then. I didn't really expect to make so much progress in this area, frankly, as when I've tried to do this before I usually make progress in the finance section and little else. This time I'm trying to hit all my categories.
Managed to get a bunch of other random stuff done this week: loads upon loads of laundry, moved some more stuff around, got rid of some more of my own stuff, did some work at work, like that. Also had some fun: dinner with Patrick one night (Swedish meatballs from IKEA and "Revenge"), picked up a few Redbox titles ("The Texas Killing Fields" and "Drive") this weekend, set up my Roku so was able to watch a few other things there, and went out with Stephen on Friday to see the Pompeii exhibit before it left the Museum of Science. Very interesting and moving. Of course the human toll was terrible, but also of course I was saddest about the dog. Very cool to see delicate glass jars, etc., that managed to survive, especially after watching the video that animated what happened the day the volcano exploded. The scariest part of the exhibit was the last room, where they showed all the active volcanoes all over the world. Yikes! We are, of course, reasonably safe here in New England.
More images from photogs other than me here, and some cool videos here.
So that's my week. What'd you do? Anything cool?
Health-wise, had some dental work done this week. Despite 4x per year cleanings for the last five years, I finally needed another gum scaling procedure done. Had part one on Monday, and part two on Thursday. Was sorta fun to see my hygienist twice -- we always chat a lot (probably too much to get stuff done quickly) and she was very complimentary about my weight loss. The procedure was pretty easy: they've gone fairly high-tech, with some topical gum-numbing agent, and an ultrasonic device that gets plaque off and sprays in antiseptic solution under the gums. Nasty tasting, but no pain really. I'm on antibiotics for two weeks (six days to go, sigh) and then in six weeks I see the perio guy so he can tell me what the next step is. I hate gum disease. Expensive and scary!
Also health-wise, I was reviewing my 101 in 1001 days list today. Managed to cross off a TON of stuff in the Lose Weight / Get Fit / No Pain / Look Better category, including get diabetes under good control, eat breakfast every day, cut back on Diet Coke, keep up with meds, eat better and make late night snacks healthful, etc. It's 1001 days on November 1, so I have a bit more to go — maybe I can get more done by then. I didn't really expect to make so much progress in this area, frankly, as when I've tried to do this before I usually make progress in the finance section and little else. This time I'm trying to hit all my categories.
Managed to get a bunch of other random stuff done this week: loads upon loads of laundry, moved some more stuff around, got rid of some more of my own stuff, did some work at work, like that. Also had some fun: dinner with Patrick one night (Swedish meatballs from IKEA and "Revenge"), picked up a few Redbox titles ("The Texas Killing Fields" and "Drive") this weekend, set up my Roku so was able to watch a few other things there, and went out with Stephen on Friday to see the Pompeii exhibit before it left the Museum of Science. Very interesting and moving. Of course the human toll was terrible, but also of course I was saddest about the dog. Very cool to see delicate glass jars, etc., that managed to survive, especially after watching the video that animated what happened the day the volcano exploded. The scariest part of the exhibit was the last room, where they showed all the active volcanoes all over the world. Yikes! We are, of course, reasonably safe here in New England.
More images from photogs other than me here, and some cool videos here.
So that's my week. What'd you do? Anything cool?
