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Adventures in dentistry, and a helpful hint (seriously)
The helpful hint, first. Maybe you folks all knew this, but I didn't: keeping your eyes open wide suppresses a significant part of the gag reflex! When you have to deal with something like dental X-ray films pressing against sensitive soft tissues, it genuinely does help to keep your eyes held open rather than flinching and closing them. I never ( Read more... ) -
Weight Watchers, week 37
Hopefully my last skip week for a bit, but dentist this week, and still adjusting to medication changes, and there's no point. It's yo-yo-ing.
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World of Warcraft/Battle.Net sigh
There's some more preview info up about the new stuff coming for Battle.Net, and...I'll quote.
Battle.net's social networking and communication capabilities will be some of the service's biggest new features. This new social backbone for the entire service will seamlessly integrate friends lists, matchmaking, messaging, and more. Text and voice ( Read more... ) -
Turning now to happier matters
New glasses! They're in. Soon's I can hook up with a ride-which is in the works as I type-I can go pick them up. Yay!
I neglected my vision needs, along with so much else, in my pre-outing years of isolation and sickness. I am now very much looking forward to seeing the world clearly again.
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Bowing out of RPG Net for good
I served out my suspension without particular complaint-as I said last week, I broke a rule and know I did, and don't object to them enforcing their rules. I object a lot to this exchange in the Trouble Tickets thread about it:
Eric Brennan: "In addition, it's pretty clear that given Cericonversion's "Waah, I'm packing up my crap and leaving" post ( Read more... ) -
Scattered health notes
Another Friday, another testosterone shot. Various things delayed it until mid-afternoon, and wow did I have a ugly midday crash. Not as bad as last week's, but not good at all. By evening I was back on track. I still don't want the stuff, but I can't at all deny the very real benefits in energy and mood ( Read more... ) -
City of Heroes rainy day fun
"Ceri, it's a dreary rainy day in Seattle. What do you do for fun on a February afternoon like this?"
"Why, I kill neo-Nazis with kung fu!"
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Thinking through and around WoW problems
I had a really productive exchange with a friend this morning ( Read more... )
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