05.06.09
Posted in Life at 10:19 am by Keith
8:10 – keith arrives after dropping off drycleaning and taking the basket back to the car. I hand over my new patient paperwork. I am given additional paperwork to fill out.
8:15 – I hand over the paperwork. I’m told “I’m sorry – I see that you already filled out paperwork, sorry to make you do this twice”. This is indicative of my entire experience at the dentist.
8:20 – a nurse calls a name. Its “James” she mumbles so I think its keith. My apprehension and irritation is building.
8:30 – I’m called back 30 minutes late.
8:40 – I’m shown the chair and told that there’s a massage. Like all dentist chairs I feel like shamu being transported on a truck from sea world san diego to sea world Orlando. I get x-rays.
8:45 – they take me to the wrap around x-ray room. I wonder – why do I have to get wrap around x-rays and sit down x-rays. Shouldn’t just one set be enough? What’s the point? I hit my head on the machine. I’m not happy.
8:57 – the dental hygentist starts to clean my teeth. I think that now that Barack Obama has commited to not torturing any more there should be lots of dental hygentists looking for work.
9:00 – I hate dentists
9:05 – I now hate the numbers “2,3,4,2,3,4” as she pokes me over and over again.
9:25 – She has cleaned my eight front teeth. I ask her what’s she’s doing and why. She explains that she hates me, hates all people, and hates my gums most of all.
9:30 – I let her know that I’ve now been at the dentist for 90 minutes and our appointment is over – or I’ll have to start charging her for my time.
9:40 – the dentist swings by and lets me know that he has a boat payment and would like to replace two of my old fillings (that have been there for a few years but feel fine to me).
9:50 – The schedule me to replace the two fillings in two weeks. I hate dentists.
10:00 - Back to work. This is why I chose this dentist - next to the office.
10:20 - dentist calls. Offers me valium prior to my fillings. I hate dentists.
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03.22.09
Posted in Life at 8:58 pm by Keith
Hmm - so mingus has been having more “hot spots” on his feet lately and has still had loose stools. So I switched to “sensitive skin/sensitive stomache” dog food.
The main ingredient is now salmon instead of chicken. So - if there is a big earthquake maybe I’ll eat the dog food instead of the dogs….
Mingus
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Posted in Vacation at 3:20 pm by Keith
After flying back from Charlotte I bumped into Fr Spitzer on the elevator in the airport parking garage. Jack was sitting on my shoulders and we were pushing at least one suitcase and a stroller full of stuff. For you non-zags, Fr Spitzer is the president of Gonzaga University. Fr Spitzer performed the funeral for a friend of the family last month and I complimented him on doing a great job.
So I asked him - why I never saw him say a mass in the four years I was at Gonzaga?
He mentioned that was probably because I didn’t make it to the 10pm mass in the chapel, the noon mass at St Als, or the 7am mass.
Hmm….
So as Jack and I stepped out of the elevator I told him “I decline to comment at this time based on the rights granted to me by the fifth amendment of the constitution.”
I could hear him laughing as the elevator went up to the next floor.
K
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03.10.09
Posted in Life at 5:30 am by Keith
We gave Jack a haircut today (it was greatly needed). Man he screamed at the barbershop.
Jack Needs a haircut...
Now he looks like daddy
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12.21.08
Posted in Technology at 10:32 pm by Keith
Apparently I’m in a list writing mood. I’ve had some issues today with technology today and it appears to be infecting Betsy. On the plus side - the city of Seattle has managed to keep the power on despite all suggestions that they’d be unable to.
My list of issues:
- My PC has been crashing any time I try to do anything more than right click a mouse.
- My iphone was out of battery this morning even though I turned it off last night.
- Wordpress seems to hate it when I paste embedded map widgets into a post (I had to rewrite the doughnut walk post ten times).
- I installed drupal onto a test domain and embedded my existing photo gallery. This rewrote the permission files that gallery used and corrupted my previous gallery install. So now I’m moving my photo gallery to a friendlier URL (and redoing it). www.hawleys.net/photos
- Betsy was having itunes issues
But - all were resolved to at least satisfactory results. Not too bad given the snow day we’re having…
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