…and had waited since the last visit to get in.
He x-rayed, agreed, and set the actual appointment for 10th Aug. Meanwhile I still have a sore tooth. And now I have a headache.
Rats.
The air here is wretched, second-hand from somewhere: I haven’t had allergy this bad since Oklahoma or the heart of fire season. I really need my brain.
It’s just one of those days. Grump.
I should go out and sand down the baseboards for my room and varnish them. I haven’t the energy. Grump.
On the other hand, the sun hasn’t gone nova, nothing has hit the planet, and there’s not as much off as could be, on any given day, so I suppose I’d better pick up and get busy.
Take a drive? The HEPA filter in your Prius V ought to put you into purified air for a while. Even a virtual drive: start the ignition, turn on the A/C, close your eyes, and sit there. (But don’t forget your laptop!) A nice un-earthly environment to help you think of other unearthly environs?
However, apropos your list of good things, the number of photons hitting the Earth has been–well–astronomical!
Good notion. It does help in bad air areas; and with forest fires, we do have some things to dodge. The national smokejumper school is right strategically and for good reason placed right off I-90. It’s been better today…
Did I mention the temporary glue on the other bridge, the original problem, gave way?
I called the regular dentist and got in tomorrow at 11 to have it properly glued down. I tell ya, if it ain’t one thing it’s another!
I fully sympathize with the bad air comments. For the last couple of months, Madame Pele has been wafting her vog in a different direction, and my allergies have been on hiatus. Now with hurricane season heating up, the vapors are back! Grrr.
CJ: Oi! Ow! A A bridge over troubled bridges??
Pele: We in Socal have been getting the spinoff from hurricane formation S. of Mexico. Estelle, namesake of a much less stormy aunt, and four other hurricanes and some number of tropical depressions have been dumping humidity on SoCal and trying to make it to Hawaii. I don’t think one has made it yet?
It’s all a rather mythological struggle. no? (I’m put in mind of the Tiki gods honored outside the Tiki Room at Disneyland. I know Pele is amongst them.)
Still, the dew point / humidity crashed this afternoon and my trip to the store was quite comfortable, hot but very dry. The prediction is much cooler for tomorrow.
Currently, we are keeping a hairy eyeball on Darby, which is predicted to be near Hawaii over the weekend. I’m expecting a bit of rain and wind from Darby, but am looking more closely at the tropical depression forming to the east of Estelle. If the hurricanes form up early enough, they generally run out of steam before Hawaii, but this one seems to be conserving its energy.
You have my sympathy. Here on the North Coast, we’ve been getting waves of progressively hotter and more humid weather. Asthma has really ruined the last couple of weeks for me*. It IS very hard to think or move when oxygen is in short supply. I saw my pulmonologist yesterday, and was scolded for not going to the ER (stubborn? me?) and placed on a high dosage steroid dosepak. That will help the asthma a lot!**
Also, there seems to be a “wave” of dental issues going around my friends and family. (I’d grin, but it’d hurt …) Between the Crohn’s and a bad tooth, I see mashed potatoes and oatmeal in my immediate future. And Monday, I’m supposed to have my first corneal replacement.
Yes, getting old isn’t for the faint of heart, but you get to laugh a lot in between giving the Cleveland Clinic LOTS of green.
*One says NOTHING about the local effects of hosting
The Donald Showthe Republican Nat’l Convention.**And the arthritis. 🙂 AND my appetite 🙁
Good luck on your corneal transplant, warriorofworry! My mom has Fuch’s dystrophy and had to have corneal transplants on both eyes over 20 years ago, but she’s done wonderfully well with them — Her visual acuity actually improved.
Thanks, that’s what everybody tells me – easy surgery, takes mere minutes per eye, right as rain the next day. Of course, the more reassurance I get, the more worried I am, LOL! Good luck with your move – you deserve a decent place.
‘The Donald Show’ *snicker*
Oh, would that it were only so….
Like a 50s singing group, Donald and the Trumpettes?
Probably closer in spirit to the Nairobi Trio, from the Ernie Kovacs Show (Dad loved that thing!)
More like “The Truman Show”…in other words, let Trump act out as much as he wants, but sandbox him where his tantrums won’t cause real-world harm (but still be very entertaining for the viewing public…)
Sorry, but I believe bringing real-world politics onto this blog is inappropriate…..whether or not you like Trump or Clinton, this isn’t the place for that discussion.
Yep. Wave of dental issues is coming ashore here too. I got an upper molar with a smoldering infection among its roots that’s been flaring. It’s either try to keep the upper hand and let it smolder or yank the tooth (a root canal). Trying to keep the tooth.
Hope you get your dental woes sorted quickly, C.J.!
Monday, my mom spotted a duplex for rent near her, we went by to see it, I signed the lease Tuesday afternoon, I’m moving next week. The thought of having to move makes me tired, but the duplex has a yard and a big flower bed and a GARAGE! to put the Silver Crayola (Corolla) under a roof and out of the sun and hail. I’d been wanting to move — where I’m at now just had plumbing issue after plumbing issue plus the thundering herd that lives upstairs — I’ll be handing back the keys to this place 1 Aug. I will so love not having anybody living above me any more. I’m having breakables (dishes, objets d’art) packed and moved professionally along with the furniture but there’s so much else I have to schlep over to the other place in my car. However, I’m getting half a dozen of those plastic bins with covers. I load up the bins, put the bins in the car, take them over to the new place, unload them, rinse, repeat. The bins are easy to carry and won’t hold more than I can carry. I used this method during the last move and it worked well. But it’s going to be the pits moving when it’s so hot. I’m off to Wally World here directly to buy shelf paper, etc.
some of the folks over on Shejidan already know that the woman I’ve been courting has been diagnosed with cervical cancer. She’s a whole 42 years old…:( I’ve told her that I am there if she needs me for anything, to watch the kids, get groceries, etc.
Joe,I’m so sorry to hear that. One of my best friends in Houston went through that a few years back and she is now cancer free after surgery and chemo (IIRC). It’s good you’ll have her back for life stuff. Hoping for the best for you guys.
So sorry your beloved is suffering the scourge of our age. We hope things work out for you and the “family.”
Ah, Joe, so sorry to hear this! OTOH, she’s young and the med/surgical has gotten so much better. I’m a survivor, so I know from experience that hope helps healing, as does the love of friends! One doubts not that you will help out. Please send her our good wishes.
Indeed — best wishes to your lady friend, and hopes for her speedy recovery.
I’ve been told that if it’s caught early enough (and I don’t know how early this was caught), they can do the treatments with a laser and maybe minimal chemo. Regardless, I’ve let her know that I’m available to help with chores, kids, etc., especially on those days when she’s not feeling well.
oh, and I’m sorry…..
Many, many heartfelt thanks to all of you for your good wishes for her and her family…….
So very sorry she’s having to go through this. Treatment, however, has come so far in the last decade…if they’re confident, and they seem to be, it’s very hopeful she’ll be rid of it longterm. You being there has to be a great help and comfort. Hugs. Many hugs.
Joe, I hope she does OK and things will work out for everyone, her, the kids, you, her family. 42 seems a lot younger than it used to though. :-/ So maybe she’ll do OK. Minimal, targeted chemo coupled with laser surgery sounds better than the older, “clobber the whole body with chemo.” You have a good relationship with her kids, and that could be key for them getting through this with their mom.
I got some good news from her today. The tests came back as “Stage 0”, meaning not cancer, but pre-cancerous. The hope that her doctor has is that the cells will naturally shed and take care of themselves. She has to have a test every 6 months, and when she has 3 consecutive good tests, she’ll have been considered cleared.
I told her how relieved and happy I am to hear that news. I’m sure she’s even more so….
Oh, excellent! Be sure she keeps that schedule, but it sounds as if she is experiencing something many people have and never know happened.
I’m sure she’ll keep it, but not much I can do….yet. I’m working on the part where she tells me when she’s got appointments….that’s something she has to want to do, and it involves a lot of trust on her part. I don’t want her to feel as though she’s being controlled, either.
I’m just glad she’s got a much brighter picture than we thought she had.
Yeah, dental woes do seem to be going around. When I went for my regular cleaning at the beginning of the month they found a couple of spots that needed attention (one of them had begun to twinge when I flossed, the other was news to me). Today was the day that I had to go back and get drilled on. The good news is that the cavity that was in a tooth that already has a crown on it was fixable without his having to pull the crown. Novacaine has worn off now, so I hope to be good to go for a few more years.
Hope they can get your dental issues sorted soon.
@WOL Best Wishes on your forthcoming move!
Joe, Praying for the best.
Yes, indeed.
IMNSHO, and this is not a neo-Luddite rant, stuff like this is what we get when we 1) use “natural” molecules in applications and concentrations we didn’t evolve with and 2) cook up new molecules nature has never seen before and release them into the environment without knowing their long-term effects. Fat chance we’ll ever get laws to replace good judgement and require extensive testing first.
In college I was a member of the American Chemical Society and received its Chemical and Engineering News biweekly. I noticed its obituary column reported a lot of members dieing in their 40’s and 50’s, not their Biblical “three score and ten”. I had little remorse adapting to a career in computing.
Remember Rachel Carson?
I’m confused by this…..I don’t know if you’re responding to my post about my friend, or CJ’s post about dental work…..if it’s about my friend, I’m not sure that it’s relevant to her situation, she’s not a chemist…..sorry, I just don’t understand where you’re coming from…
I was responding to your situation, but I’m an Aspie, so can be hard to “read”. Sorry. My mind has always had a tendency to skip ahead faster than I can speak or write, touching down only occasionally, either not explaining the connections I see or going into excruciating detail.
I beg to differ though. No Americans are free of threat from our own use of chemicals. Have you heard the latest? Talcum powder! 😮 And there’s Shak on TV hawking Gold Bond. So when we accept “Better things for better living through Chemistry” and allow there to be insufficient testing, what are we? Innocent? Complicit? I’m an Aspie, I can’t say what neurotypical people might think. I can say I’m glad to have left Chemistry behind, and wish I hadn’t done many of the things I did as a student.
We have an EPA. And who tells it what it can and cannot enforce, and controls its budget?
To deliberately misquote verse 17 of the Tao Te Ching: “We did it to ourselves.”
Organic chemists in -particular are subject to this kind of thing. But safety measures should be a lot better than they were 40 years ago, when I was working as an electronics assembler and had things like TCE at my work station, or washed parts in boiling acetone.
Well, checkout the hazards for the malononitrile. It’s so “active” it’s got to be teratogenic! But great for doing syntheses.
A very entertaining blog is Derek Lowe’s ‘In The Pipeline’; he discusses the process of discovering new drugs (rather like making sausage, don’t ask) among other chemistry issues. One of the subheadings is called ‘Things I Won’t Work With’, another is titled ‘Things I’m Glad I Don’t Do’. His tongue in cheek descriptions of some fairly nasty chemical compounds, their reactions, and how they are made are funny stuff, as long as you have good running shoes.
http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/