Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Still Home I'm still feeling out of it this morning after the wisdom tooth came out.  Actually, I am surprised at this.  As the evening progressed, yesterday, I was feeling gradually a bit better, and when I went to bed I was feeling better than I do now.  I have a headache and feel somewhat nauseous, which I would have thought the vicodin would have fixed up somewhat.  I also have a cough!  I've emailed my boss to tell him I won't be coming in this morning, but if I am feeling better by noon I should be in this afternoon.  I hope that is the case. 6/20/2006 3:30:12 PM UTC      Comments [0]Trackback Ouch! Wisdom Tooth Out... I'm not sure it is of great interest to anyone, but this morning I had a wisdom tooth taken out.  Yeah, great news I am sure. Anyway, my jaw aches slightly, I am a little woozy from the vicondin, can't eat anything (but can drink cool fluids), but otherwise I am fine.  In the morning I expect I'll go to work (I took this afternoon off). Here's a photo of the former site of the lower right wisdom tooth: I know this is a little gross, but I can't help myself.  Anyway, the dark splotch behind the tooth above is the site of my former wisdom tooth. They warned me that the roots of this tooth were rather close to the nerve that serves to provide sensation to the lower right lip and the procedure could damage it, but after the numbing wore off I had all my sensation back no problem.  6/20/2006 5:35:21 AM UTC      Comments [0]Trackback My Man in Afghanistan I just got word from an old Army buddy of mine that he is going to Afghanistan for a year!  Wow!  Some of us are just lucky, I guess, except that in his case it seems that he has been working towards this for many years.  He and I joined the Army pretty much at the same time way back in 1976, and ended up in the same unit in the 9th Infantry Division at Fort Lewis, Washington, for our first assignments.  We didn't know each other before the Army, and our occupational specialties pretty much kept us from rubbing shoulders much while on duty, but we developed a decent friendship off-duty during the year or two we were in the same unit.  He was a good egg, and I greatly enjoyed spending time with him.  After I was reassigned to a different unit, and was eventually transferred to another post, we lost contact.  It was only about three or four years ago that we happened to come back into contact, with him on the East coast and me on the West.  What was surprising to me was that while not remaining on active duty in the Army (I had gotten out for good in 1983), he had nevertheless gotten into and stayed in some sort of Reserve duty from shortly after he got his honorable discharge from active service.  In fact, he kept at it long enough that just last year he ended up graduating from the US Army Sergeant Major Academy!  He is still a reservist, of course, but spends more time on active duty than he does in reserve.  And to top things off he is just about to fly to Afghanistan!  My old buddy the Sergeant Major!  I've suggested to him that he blog while he is in the 'Stan, and if he does I will add him to my BlogRoll. 6/20/2006 5:15:30 AM UTC      Comments [0]Trackback

Friday, June 09, 2006

And now... I've blogged before.  In fact, I have three other blogs: Cyberherbalist - my general blog MikeDeveloper - my technical blog KD7UST - my Ham Radio blog But I do believe that I will roll Cyberherbalist and KD7UST into one.  This one. 6/9/2006 5:30:40 AM UTC      Comments [0]Trackback

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