Well…man, getting out of bed this morning was a process that started at 6:04 but took until 7:53 to complete…and I must have ground my teeth since on of the lower ones on the damaged side hurt like crazy…as this goes on, I have less and less hope that the surgery is going to be successful…I can drink hot coffee without pain so I guess that’s something…even had to take an ibuprofen a few minutes ago to get out ahead of the pain that I can feel coming back…damn…had an okay day yesterday but didn’t get much done but buy bad food that I am still feeling guilty about….and there is no room left in the freezer for anything so I won’t be buying any protein for a couple of weeks…but I had such problems eating yesterday that I don’t even want to try today…but I will since I do need fuel…but I’m not sure about getting on the bike today….damn, I think depression is coming in again….crap, crap, crap….not much to do today…just going to wait for the snow storm to start…toss some bread out for the squirrels and fill the bird feeder….I have been pretty successful in not taking days off the bike and having some discipline and I am going to try to keep up that stream…I do remember times when I let things go and just enjoyed the day but that seems a long time ago….more later…
Damn, my teeth hurt…
Well…okay, I probably should say that my gums hurt but they do….can’t chew on that side at all and it took almost a half hour to eat a small burger and some onion rings and it is supposed to be healing, not getting worse….and when I brushed my teeth after dinner if felt like I brushed them in acid it hurt so much….oh, well…I did go out and buy a bunch of bad for me food at DD today but it was so cheap I couldn’t pass it up…I mean 42 ozs of smoked sausage for 2.99? Or 2 pounds of chicken nuggets for 3 bucks…and the same for the o-rings…2 pounds for 3 bucks and then a pound of ball park beef hot dogs for 99cents? Yeah…that’s about a years worth of bad food but if filled the freezer and it’s nice to have easy food to make so I don’t have to cook…I did get two rides in today so I guess that’s something…the new episode of “Picard” is out today so that will be on the agenda for tonight along with “1923”….it looks like I’m skipping getting the cheap chicken tomorrow since there is no room in the freezer for anything else….and I still have to put the smoked sausage in….it looks like it is going to bomb us with snow tomorrow afternoon and night with the possibility of 6+ inches and high winds…damn, I want this winter over….
We need more trains…
Well…I think this may be a political one…or it has a political component to it…one of the things that has struck me since I started watching a lot of British tv is the fact that they have such a cool rail network…I mean you can get on the underground in mid London and changing only one train, you can be in the North of Scotland later that same day…and you don’t need a car for any of it…and every town in the whole country is less than 5 miles from a rail station…now, I think it would be really cool if I could walk the 4 blocks down to the railroad tracks and jump on a train to GR or anywhere else in Michigan or the country…as it stands now, I’d have to drive an 80 mile round trip to GR to get on the train to anywhere and it really only stops a few places and shares the rails with freight that always takes precedent to passenger trains….and on the continent of Europe, you can get on a train that goes over 200 miles per hour and gets you places faster than the total time it takes to fly the same route…why can’t we have that here? I would love to be able to take a train around the country without having a reservation…you just show up at the station and get on the next train that comes through…and there are many trains every day no the one every couple of weeks…I think the US just doesn’t have the political will for mass transit and that sucks…wouldn’t it be cool to be able to get on a train downtown and go to Traverse City for the day? Or Detroit…where you could see a Tigers of Red Wings game and then just ride home instead of driving 3 hours…that would be cool…oh, well…
March 2nd
Well…damn, the dull ache that my dental instructions predicted has happened and my teeth are throbbing…and it started when I brushed my teeth last night…or it appeared that it did so I took an ibuprofen a few minutes ago and hope it works soon…I guess I was hoping that the pain was not going to come since it didn’t Tuesday right after the surgery…crap….and now there is a winter storm warning in my lower banner and that just sucks…winter is supposed to be done…or getting done…I guess buying the last bag of melting salt was a good idea…I was going to go out to get some cheap chicken tomorrow but then I remembered how big of a pain it was to thaw them so I could portion it into smaller bags….so, even though it’s cheap, it’s too much work…I wonder if I could just let it thaw in the fridge and then re-freeze it? It’s only 5 bucks so I guess I could experiment…we’ll see…I did have a busy day yesterday but today will be easier…think I’m going to go out to DD to get some onion rings and some thin sliced turkey for snacks but I’m not sure when…going to only do one ride today since I’m not feeling it right now and it’s getting late…woke up at 6:23 this morning but rolled over and stayed in bed til 7:14 and that never happens….not much to do today…just going to ease into the day since I’m pretty worn out…I still can’t let go and just do nothing for a day but I think I’m going to try soon….more later…
Another day…
Well…it’s been another day where I got a lot done but I am looking forward to it being done…started with the grocery runs where I had to hit 4 stores but I did get 27 packs of flower and veggie seeds for around 3 bucks at Menards along with some more salt for the walks and potting soil for starting the veggie seeds…and the salt looks like it may be needed with another storm that is coming in with ice Friday night….so I’ll need to get out to save a lot in the morning Friday since they have chicken leg quarters on sale for 47 cents a pound in a 10 pound bag…after Menards, I headed to Aldis to get the normal Aldis stuff, and then to Meijers where I forgot to buy milk but luckily I started out on Sternberg road and coming back I had to go right by the other Meijers so I stopped there for a quick in and out…then back here for two rides and to watch Man U win their FA cup match…then I made dinner and can almost eat without pain…at least the sensitivity to hot and cold is lessening as I heal…but the places where they stitched me hurt some today and it feels weird to have the extra stitch material floating around in there…all in all, a good day that is going to end with watching the new episode of “The Mandolorian” tonight….
The FBI needs to be cleansed..
Well…you know I’ve written about the NY FBI office being a hotbed of trumpism before but the rot in the FBI goes much deeper than that and it needs to be cleansed of every damn one of them…especially since the arrest of the former chief of counterintelligence McGonigal who laundered money for and worked directly with Oleg Derispaska, who worked for Putin and who was key in rudy’s pushing all of the lies about Ukraine and the Biden’s and who did everything he could to stall the investigation into idiot boy’s connection to the Russians…then came January 6th and the FBI’s top officials were warned that a large percentage of the agents across the FBI were sympathetic to the attackers who trashed the capital so any investigation would be tainted from the beginning…and this taint continued into the government trying to get the stolen documents back from idiot boy when the FBI, instead of following the rules, sought ask trump “pretty please” return the documents instead of getting a search warrant and these same agents did everything they could to slow down the investigation into the theft and in July of last year, these agents wanted to shut the investigation down…look, any agent the shows such slanted favoritism since they are sympathetic to the cult of trump should be fired and right now…anyone who helps people who tried to overthrow the government should not only be fired, but should be prosecuted since they were part of the plot….geez..
March 1st
Well…I forgot about the second day rule applies to my teeth…they hurt this morning but not too bad so I can live with it but I really thought I’d avoided the pain…so I guess I can take an ibuprofen before I do the grocery runs to help with that…darn…slept all the way through til 6:23 but feel like I slept for a minute or so I’m so worn out…could be fallout from the surgery so I may just take a day off today and take it easy…I think part of the pain is from grinding my teeth like I always do at night but it’s still better than before the dental work…didn’t get a lot done but the bike rides yesterday but I don’t see them happening today with how I feel right now….didn’t take any allergy meds last night and I should have…my head is plugged up and I have a headache so I know my nightly routine is still effective and I need to continue it…haven’t driven my car in a week since I skipped getting the paper Sunday so the hla’s will probably be pretty loud today…need to hit Menards this morning to see if I can get some cheap flower and veggie seeds…I planted some perennials last year but I know I’m going to need to fill the back of the house with more flowers this year…and I want to plant some different veggies other than the tomatoes, peppers, and cukes I do every year…not much to do today…pretty worn out and I think I’ll need to take it easy later…and Man U plays so that will be the perfect couch tv for later….more later…
I don’t take this for granted…
Well…after getting up this morning to almost no pain even with having my mouth torn apart yesterday, I was really hoping it would make it easier to eat…it has been painful for the past year with the huge sensitivity to heat, cold, and pressure…it was so bad that I was never eating hot or cold food… only eating tepid stuff and even the acid from oranges sent me into screaming pain even though it was at room temperature…so today when I had hot soup for lunch and was able to eat it without tilting my head to the right to keep the food off the left side of my mouth…and I damn near broke into tears…never thought I’d ever be able to eat without pain again….my jaw is still pretty sore from the stress they put on it yesterday and I can’t open it all the way but I know that’s just temporary until the strain heals…one thing I’m sure of is that I don’t take this for granted…and I am going to relish every pain free day if they continue…you just don’t know what this has done for my quality of life….
It really does look lik fox news is in trouble…
Well…with the release of testimony from all of the execs and on air personalities in the civil defamation suits that Dominion Voting Systems, all I can say is wow, fox news is in trouble….and the suit is for 1.6 billion dollars and I wonder if there can be punitive damage levied if they win their suit? It is clear from the testimony that fox knew that they were lying about Dominion when they constantly pushed the idea that their software switched votes to Joe Biden from the idiot trump, but they kept on doing it even after Dominion sent a cease and desist letter to them after the election and it is also clear that fox was panicking that they were losing viewers to newsmax and oan and they had to do something to bring the maga idiots back into the fox bubble…so they picked Dominion and Smartmatic as their targets of made up conspiracies and hammered it on every show for a month…and Smartmatic has an even larger suit of 2.7 billion dollars against them for the same lies…could we see fox nees bankrupted if they lose these suits? Probably not but it will put a big dent in them…and will maybe change their lying propagandic behavior…we’ll see…geez..
February 28th
Well…damn, this is weird…after all of the cutting and scraping and grinding on my teeth yesterday, my mouth barely hurts at all today…just some stiffness in the jaw hinge but that is about it…and the bleeding has completely stopped so I guess I’m on the way to healing…if it continues to feel like this, I won’t even need to take anything for it today…fingers crossed…I am still removing the protective cement they put in to keep the cold and heat from hurting but most of it is out and the rest of it will eventually fall out….it still does hurt a bit when I put pressure on it biting down but I can live with that….so, it looks like I can start to get back to normal today….still feel cold today, though, so I have the heating pad in my lap just to try to get warm and I’m not sure what that is about…probably should take it easy today but I need to get two rides in anyway so I may take the afternoon off and watch some soccer…I was so worn out last night that I slept through til 6:23 this morning but I’m still pretty tired and it will take a while to get moving….I was planning on today being a recovery day so I’ll have to see if the mouth continues to improve before I decide what to do ….more later…