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.  

Molar

 The forecasters lied, the temps did not rise above freezing yesterday.  They didn't say they were wrong, but they are predicting that we will crack the 32 degree mark today.  I'm debating whether I should hold my breath or not.  

Today is the last of my 4 day mini-vacation.  While I enjoyed it, I will also admit to looking forward to going back to work tomorrow.  I'm not one to sit around, however with the temps as cold as they've been, that's how I spent the time.  Sure, I worked on the book, and watched TV, but I get bored quickly.  Besides, it's slow at work and I can get my 7500 daily steps in.

I'm almost halfway through the final draft of The Body in History.  I haven't reached that point where I'm ready to be done with it, but I know that it's approaching.  I know this because I'm already starting to think about the next on.  The title is already set, so I suppose that will give everybody a clue as to what it will probably be about.  I like it.  The Body in 4/4 Time is snazzy, eh?

Yesterday was one of those days where things sort of got accomplished... sort of.  I did get a bike ride in.  I was pleased with that.  I made a Shrimp Lo Mein for dinner and it was tasty.  Otherwise, it was pretty much the same old, same old.  If the weather was warmer, I'd take Howie for a walk.  But 27 (F) is just too cold.  He did lose a tooth in a rather amusing way.  We were playing fetch with a ball and he dropped it on the floor in front of me, look down at it, and then this tooth fell out of his mouth.  It's a molar.

And, of course, the Orange Anus gets sentenced today.  He went to the Supreme Court to try and get it thrown out and they rejected his plea.  I was more interested in the way the justices voted and, as I expected, the decision was close with the Alito, Brown, Kavanaugh, and Gorsuch being the cultists in the group.  If you didn't know they were going to vote this way, I've got some land in Florida you might be interested in buying.  

I was surprised to see that a lot of Americans view Biden's term unfavorably.  He has accomplished a lot, I do believe, however, that it is his age that gets in the way when it comes to people understanding what he's done.  My biggest problem with him is that he refused to accept that he was a caretaker president.  He is old, and unfortunately, his team did an excellent job of hiding his shortcomings.  Had he done like Lyndon B. Johnson and announced that he was not going to try for a second term, I'm fairly certain we would not be in out current situation.  This is a terrible way to learn from his mistake.