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I can’t think of anything to write about tonight.

I watched the new Star Trek Strange New Worlds this morning before work. It was good. It was in black and white and they came up with a technobabblish justification for it, which I absolutely loved.

Tomorrow before work I will watch the new episode of Silo. The third season has been good so far, but it must be coming to an end soon, right?

I haven’t watched any of the new episodes of The Walking Dead: Dead City yet. This is season three? I think? I started watching Walking Dead while season three was airing and I have never gone more than a day or two without being up to date… until now. I’m kinda sad about that.

Today is the fourth day since the great teeth extraction of 2026. I have never actually been on a liquid diet, but I’ve been living off protein shakes most of the time. I have decided that tomorrow I will be on a normal diet again. You heard it here first.

Okay, speaking of diet, I think my blood sugar is crashing. I need to go get some protein and then I need to go to sleep. G’night Trekkies.

Random Thoughts

A few random thoughts on this random Wednesday evening.

I believe there are 38 days left until my wife and I see Rush again. Cleveland. The first US city that broke Rush. The city whose response lead to them signing their first real record deal. 38 days to go.

I learned something about life on the third day post-double tooth extractions. Singing hurts. I didn’t have any pain on the day of the procedure. I didn’t have any pain on the day after. I felt a little confident on the third day and tried to record some vocal tracks for the 50 songs in 90 days challenge. Ouch, bro. Ouch. Having said that, they did tell me to expect day four to be the peak of pain and discomfort so maybe I’m just following the plan.

I’m not doing a liquid diet but I am doing a mostly liquid diet. I’m just playing it safe. I bought a chocolate protein shake mix. The label says to mix it with cold water. Its okay with water, but it is 100 times better when mixed with skim milk. Unfortunately, the mix doesn’t really… mix… with milk. Probably 3/4 of it mixes okay but the rest… lets just say that the protein shake is a smidge on the chunky side.

Did I like the third season of House of the Dragon? I was fully on team Black after season two, but in season three the Blacks were kinda dicks and now I don’t know who I’m rooting for. Weird. At least I’ll have time to figure it out before season four comes out… two freakin’ years from now.

We are three episodes in to the new season of Star Trek Strange New Worlds and I am loving it. The first episode was a great time travel story. The second was a great full blown haunted house horror story that was creepy as fuck. The third episode was basically The hangover and featured David Foley from The Kids in the Hall, confirming that Kids and Star Trek are in the same universe… as if there was ever any doubt. Episode four comes out tomorrow and I can’t wait to see what they do next.

Okay… that’s the state of Robert’s world tonight. It’s 8:36pm and this old fart is ready for bed. G’night, all!

We are Running Out of Weekends

Today is August 11th. We only have a few more weekends before Summer comes to an end. We need to come up with fun, summery things to do with those few remaining weekends. I brought this up to my wife and step daughter yesterday and this weekend is probably the last one we have free with my step daughter. Her weekends are booked pretty solid for the rest of the month and then next month she moves to California for school.

What should we do with our last weekend with all three of us? 

I haven’t a clue, but I bet we’ll think of something.

1.5 Fewer

I have dental issues. I’ve had them for as long as I’ve had teeth. I should say that I have dental issues that are the result of having weird, irrational yet somehow also physical problems with Dentists visits. I’m not going to give details but lets just say that my problem isn’t with Dentists themselves, it’s just something in my head that makes dental work really tough for me to deal with. The final word on all of this being that my teeth are a fucking mess.

Weirdly, my wisdom teeth were not a problem. When I was a teenager my dentist said they could probably come out but given my usual difficulties they could also just as well stay in. So they stayed in. Until today. Well… for one of them.

Years ago my family was sitting around the house at abuot 4:00am waiting for a shuttle van to pick us up and take us to the airport for a vacation to San Diego, CA. I was in the dining room having a snack while I waited and one of the upper molars on the left side snapped off at the gum line. There was no pain or anything, just utter embarrassment and shame.

A couple of weeks ago I started having toothaches and they got so bad that I sucked it up and went to a Dentist. I couldn’t tell them exactly where the pain was coming from. It was somewhere on the left side of my head but it seemed to move around. The Dentist felt it was either the broken tooth or the lower left wisdom tooth. She declared that neither were savable and recommended they both come out.

This morning they both came out. A double extraction. Well… maybe not totally double, maybe a 1.5 extraction. One of them was already mostly gone but the root was still there. Whatever, you dig what I’m saying, right?

It went well. The pain is mild and manageable. There’s a lot of swelling and I’m not terribly interested in trying to eat solid food yet. I’ve had a lot of small protein shakes today to make up for that. Three cheers for the liquid diet, babie.

Anyway, back to work tomorrow. I should work in the office but I will error on the side of caution and work from home. Here’s hoping everything continues to go well and my recovery from dental surgery is quick. The literature they gave me said the discomfort should peak on day four and then you should be back to normal shortly after that. Here’s hoping that all of this shit stops being an issue shortly after Thursday. Fingers crossed.

Tomorrow is Gonna Suck

Tomorrow is teeth extraction day. One wisdom tooth and the root of a molar that broke off 100 years ago.

My stomach has been a mess for a few days now. I can’t eat for eight hours before the procedure. My stomach hurts like a mutha if I go more than two hours without food. All of that on top of the apocalyptic toothache.

Tomorrow is going to suck out loud, but if it doesn’t work… fuck-a-doodle-do.

What Should I Do?

Tomorrow is Sunday. I get my teeth extracted on Monday. What should I do with my last day before parts of me are ripped out of my head?

Should I work on music and record some vocal tracks in the car in the morning? Should I go into Boston with a bunch of cameras and take pictures of stuff? Should I just sleep late like a normal person would?

I’m leaning toward the car music, but we’ll have to wait and see.

The theme today has been upset stomachs, mild nausea, and insane levels of toothache pain. I am so sick of this crap.

Crash

I tried to watch this week’s episode of Silo this morning but the AppleTV app on my Mac crashed twice. Twice. IIt’s working on My iPad now though so sigh of relief. No that I’m remedying that issue, maybe I can remedy the whole toothache thing?

Monday is the Day

My teeth are going under the knife and Monday is the day. I’m losing one of my wisdom teeth and what is left of a molar that broke off years and years ago. Are these teeth the cause of the pain and suffering? Probably? Maybe? We’ll find out. I have had a Dentist and an Oral Surgeon both agree that these two suckers need to go away regardless of whether or not they are the source of the terrible, icky pain… so they are going.

I don’t wanna lose any more teeth. I’m already well below the allotted 32. Whatever, it is happening. I go to the clinic on Monday, take a nap, wake up and have a couple of days eating pudding and mashed potatoes and then hopefully all of this bullshit comes to an end. Here’s hoping.

Awful Day

Yesterday was bad from a toothache perspective, but I was under the impression that things were maybe starting to improve. That ended today, in a big way. The Tylenol I’ve been taking by the fist full decided to stop working at all today. I took three Tylenols at 11:00am and then at about 11:30 the toothache decided to ramp itself up to 11 and it started to roar. It’s now 8:30pm and it hasn’t calmed down at all. Not even a little bit.

Add to that the fact that the antibiotics are making me nauseous. I spent the whole day on the edge of vomiting. Fuck me, today sucked.

I meet with the oral surgeon tomorrow. No idea when they are going to pull the bad teeth. No clue if the teeth they are planning to pull are the cause of the pain. Shit, this sucks.

Ouch

I am so sick of this effing toothache. I can’t even tell you. Five full days of antibiotics with two days still to go. It’s only just now starting to feel a little better, but not enough to make me not be sick of this effing toothache. Seriously. The country is going to run out of Tylenol if this toothache crap doesn’t end soon.

Random thought number one. I haven’t had a good nights sleep in weeks. It is mostly the toothache’s fault. That’s not the point of this random thought though. One of the rules following gastric bypass is that caffiene is no longer allowed. The random thought is that I miss caffiene. 

Random thought number two. Apparently today is national chocolate chip cookie day. My step daughter just went out and bought chocolate chip cookies for the family. My wife has one. My step son has one. My step daughter has one. Post gastric bypass Robbie though… I can’t have sugar. It makes me sick. Am I sad about this? No. Why? Because I have a bunch of sugar free chocolate chip cookies in my sugar free snacks stash. Let’s celebrate!