This morning first thing I had another visit to the dentist, following last week’s clean and check-up. I left last week with the impression that the dentist today would be repairing a couple of small fillings on two upper teeth. But when I was reclined in the chair, he started poking around the lower teeth and saying he was going to do two new fillings there on some grooves worn into the teeth near the gumline. This was a surprise to me, as I hadn’t had any impression of that last week.
I said I thought we were doing the top teeth, and he said yes, but he wanted to do the two lower teeth first. Being in the vulnerable position of being in the dentist chair I got a bit flustered as I was processing this unexpected news. The dentist agreed to do the upper teeth as I’d expected and then see how I felt about the lower teeth. This gave me enough breathing space to think it through and realise it was probably a good idea and give the go ahead.
The good part was all of the fillings were very shallow and I didn’t need any anaesthesia at all. He did drill a little, but somehow managed to do it without any pain at all, so that was great. I really hate the anaesthesia as it takes about 5 hours to wear off for me and is very annoying. But anyway, the new dentist seems very good like the old retired one, so that’s good. And because of the confusion over the teeth, he only charged me for three teeth instead of four.
My wife had taken Scully to work because of my dentist appointment, so I had some totally free time when I got home and took advantage to go on a 5k run. Fortunately it was a cool morning and a bit less humid than on the weekend, and I actually managed a decent time.
Then I went to pick up Scully from my wife’s work. We walked back via the pub at Crows Nest, where we stopped for lunch. I had a chicken schnitzel. They’ve changed the lunch menu – the schnitzel used to come with a choice of gravy/sauce, and I used to like both the peppercorn and the mushroom sauces. But now it doesn’t come with any. The schnitzel is till good but I missed the sauce with it.
At home, I had to pack up some more Magic: the Gathering cards. The same buyer as yesterday closed a deal for all of my Ice Age set cards. This was the first large set that came out after I started playing, and I got a lot of those cards, and the buyer wanted all of them. None of them are worth very much individually, but… when I’d done inventorying them there were over 4000 cards! I’d hoped to get them into the mail before 4pm, but it was almost 5pm by the time I’d actually packaged them up. So they’ll have to go into the mail tomorrow morning. It’s a very hefty package too… Checking the weight of Magic cards online shows about 1.8 grams per card, so this package is going to be around 8 kg with the box and all.
Tonight I had three more classes on the “Codes of Honour” topic. The flow is coming together a bit more now, after last night’s class was a bit choppy. It’s unfortunate the Tuesday kids always get the “experimental” version of the class, which then gets refined over the next few days.
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