Archive for the 'Medical Issues' Category



A Time to Bake

Published on November 18, 2008

Several posts now have been about the current financial problems.  The result of all this reading is, well, that I don’t really want to read about it for a while.  Worrying is unlikely to help.  Not much else I can do about it. Worked last night, the evening shift, because someone was out ill, then […]


dentist and denture stuff

Published on November 7, 2008

Ok, guys, here it goes.   A nice tell-all. Went in for the first appointment to start the process rolling to fix my teeth; removal of the remaining teeth on the bottom and replacing them with a full lower denture.   I should have married a richer man.   Much richer.  Preliminary x-rays, consult, etc, about $400.  Lower denture is $1450, post-insertion […]


18 months anniversary

Published on September 26, 2008

I started smoking when I was 13, thinking it would impress other kids on how grown up I was.   (I used my lunch money to buy them)  (or I swiped some of my mother’s cigarettes, on the sly)  See already how mature I was?   In those days, just about everyone smoked.  My parents did, their […]