by CJ | Aug 28, 2016 | Journal
I laid out because of the dental work, but I’ll tell you, I had a moment in the garden that machine pretty well paid for itself. One of those nasty things that happens to you as you get older is that where YOU think you’ve lifted your feet to is not where...
by CJ | Aug 24, 2016 | Journal
I’ve gotten by on Advil, no problems. I can have hot coffee today, and I can help Jane shove furniture around (prep for the garage sale.) The next appointment is in 3 weeks, to get the stitches out. Then close upon that, a deep cleaning (scaling) on 1/4 of my...
by CJ | Aug 23, 2016 | Journal
Extraction and bone graft…3 stitches. The pain was minimal, really. The cuff for the blood pressure monitor hurt worse than the extraction. Bone graft (they pour bone powder in and stitch it up) no pain. Waiting at the pharmacy while a driver with no...
by CJ | Aug 22, 2016 | Journal
Some of you who were at Shejicon may have remarked that I was moving a little slowly, a little uncertainly—in point of fact the years of sitting at a keyboard have taken a heavy toll since we gave up figure skating: just years and years of not-walking,...
by CJ | Aug 22, 2016 | Journal
Some of you who were at Shejicon may have remarked that I was moving a little slowly, a little uncertainly—in point of fact the years of sitting at a keyboard have taken a heavy toll since we gave up figure skating: just years and years of not-walking,...
by CJ | Aug 20, 2016 | Journal
Mine, currently: spaghetti and meatballs, and I’m really particular about the meatballs. But buy them frozen from Costco…being lazy. I often use Classico tomato sauce—again, since cooking is what I do in 20 minutes after work…from a jar....
by CJ | Aug 20, 2016 | Journal
Mine, currently: spaghetti and meatballs, and I’m really particular about the meatballs. But buy them frozen from Costco…being lazy. I often use Classico tomato sauce—again, since cooking is what I do in 20 minutes after work…from a jar....
by CJ | Aug 19, 2016 | Journal
Nuff disasters. How do you like your eggs? Let’s have some silliness. Mine…if scrambled, I want them whisked once around a hot pan and served. I hate hotel eggs. If fried, over very easy, or an institution from my childhood, ‘basted.’ This is...
by CJ | Aug 18, 2016 | Journal
Jane wasn’t feeling well, think she picked up a bug. And…she went to close down her 50% complete novel file (as I think: I hesitate to ask) and the program simply showed asterisks as a file name. Three months of delicate edits…and gone. Whole file,...
by CJ | Aug 18, 2016 | Journal
Jane wasn’t feeling well, think she picked up a bug. And…she went to close down her 50% complete novel file (as I think: I hesitate to ask) and the program simply showed asterisks as a file name. Three months of delicate edits…and gone. Whole file,...
by CJ | Aug 15, 2016 | Journal
Today they sealed the work just done. But I feared a full set of x-rays would find more problems, and they have. Another bridge, this one needing the anchor tooth extracted next Tuesday, with a bone graft, three month wait for that to heal and ultimately an implant,...
by CJ | Aug 13, 2016 | Journal
It’s not, in my opinion, necessary, but it is over the long haul—a chimney starting to have loose bricks at the top is going to admit water, which in our climate means ice, which expands joints, etc. So the scaffolding will stay up until Tuesday, giving...
