Brain Salad Surgery

Our overnight temps stayed about freezing.  That's a good thing.  Today's high is predicted to be in the mid to upper 50s (F), and that also a good thing.  Spring is slowly beginning to spring upon us.  Tomorrow forecasters are saying we'll be hitting the low 70s (F) again, but, as often happens during the changing of the seasons, we're going to chill off again.

And, as should have been expected, yesterday was meh day, what with the tooth getting pulled.  That, in itself wasn't bad.  One thing I found interesting was that my dental assistant was a man whose name was Jesse.  That's a first for me.  Other than the dentist, he was the only other male I saw as he led me from the lobby.  

There was an amusing moment in in the lobby while I waited to be escorted back to the extraction room.  The receptionist was on the phone attempting to order pizzas for lunch and there was an issue.  She wanted to place the order for pick-up, however she was going to pay cash rather than put the charge on a credit card.  The pizzeria evidently didn't want to take the order with out payment.  There was an easy solution, of course.

And the extraction went well.  More time was spent numbing me up than in pulling the tooth.  Truthfully, I was expecting it to take much longer, but then my previous extraction experience was with difficult teeth, 4 wisdom teeth and another molar that had cracked in half.  I was going to take a picture of the tooth lying on the tray, but thought that might be a little gross, so here's a pic of my panoramic x-ray.  In a way, I can see an odd connection between it and Emerson, Lake, and Palmer's Brain Salad Surgery album cover.

The X-ray

Brain Salad Surger

In the Orangie news of yesterday, his dementia was in full view as he told reporters we'd won the war and that Iran had sent him a present that was very big and worth a lot of money.  Even Main Stream media is wondering just what this big, bold, beautiful and very expensive present is.  No answer from Orangie's team.  Iran, on the other hand, called this bullshit.  They called Orangie a liar.  You know it's bad when most of the people in the world are taking Iran's word of that of the president of the United States.  

And Democrats flipped two more seats Blue in Florida, of all places.  This should have Republicans shaking in their boots because the Dems didn't win because Republican voters stayed home.  Nope.  The Democrats won because Republican voters themselves voted Blue.  Orangie's own district went Blue.  

On top of that, Orangie's approval rating has dropped to 36%.  I'm betting it's a lot lower.  

Extraction

Depending upon where I looked this morning, the temp was just below, right at, or just above freezing.  Either way you look at it, the temps outside are chilly.  Sunshine is supposed to be abundant today.  These are seasonal temps, just in case you're thinking this is a little cool for Spring.  My furnace is still running, though not nearly as often as in February when the temps were truly cold.

Yesterday I got my workout in.  I'm upping the weight on the Romanian Deadlifts.  For those of you who don't know, in this exercise you bend over at the waist and then stand up.  I'll be doing it with 20 lbs in each hand.  This is a good exercise for the lower back.  That puppy needs to be kept strong to avoid back issues down the road.

Retail was terribly slow yesterday.  One of my fellow specialists called off, so it was just me.  I found out this morning that his older brother died, so I sent him a sympathy note.  Still, yesterday was terribly boring.  I did get a measure for a carpet install.  And I did have to sit for over fifteen minutes listening to a gentleman complain about his daughter-in-law.  His son died 6 years ago, and her money was beginning to run low, so she told him and his wife that she was going to move in with them.  As he talked, I sat and nodded, providing him with the obligatory nods and shakes of the head.  He gave me way too much information.  I have no problem being a friendly ear, however a friendly ear is not going to solve his problems.  That's something he will need to do himself.

I'm getting a molar pulled later this morning.  Woo! Hoo!  It's the one in the back.  The wisdom teeth went long ago.

So, the Supreme Court heard arguments yesterday about voting by mail.  Even though he votes by mail, the Orange Anus hates it.  I vote by mail.  I love it.  The GOP doesn't want ballots received after election day to be counted.  This will disenfranchise many citizens and military personnel living overseas.  This is odd because a large number of the men and women serving in our military tend to voted Republican.  The Republican party doesn't care.  Here in the states, 36.8% of voters over 65 vote by mail.  Again, older voters tend to either be Republican or vote conservatively.  People over a certain age prefer voting by mail, they'd rather drop a ballot into a mailbox than stand for an hour or longer at a polling station.  Taking away that choice or limiting that ability will result in lower conservative and or Republican votes.  The Republican party doesn't care.  They feel it will effect Democrats worse than it will Republicans.  They are terribly wrong.