2008 — 24 September: Wednesday
It's 01:30 or so. I've just finished watching the fascinating "Storyville" documentary on the many events of 1968. Not, in many ways, the best year on the planet. Time to select tonight's picture of Christa, then sleep before it's time to get up again!
Christa about to take her parents sight-seeing in 1982
Over the years, I learned to recognise many of the non-verbal looks I'd get from Christa from time to time. This one says "Lucky you — you get to stay home while I entertain the oldies!"
G'night.
Well...
... at least it's not (yet) raining! It's 09:04 and time for breakfast (hearty or otherwise) before my next date with dental destiny. Good grief, now the FBI is to investigate whether senior officials in leading financial institutions deliberately misled US regulators. (I didn't realise they had regulators after such a long period of Bush bliss.) And Nicole Kidman attributes her pregnancy (in part) to a swim in a fertility pool. That must be Scientology for you, I guess.
It's now 10:58 and your toothy correspondent is delightfully numb. The problem has been diagnosed as a developing abscess in the root of the tooth that Dr Fang reworked a few days ago. He has taken out the filling, and dressed it temporarily with an antiseptic compound. Plus I have seven days of antibiotics and a return bout in four weeks to root fill. Deep unjoy. But two amazingly rapid, low-dosage X-rays1 and application of a "local" suggested this is indeed the cause of all the current "discomfort" so it's better to fix it, obviously. Can you imagine? The elderly aunt to whose funeral I'm going tomorrow pulled all her own teeth out, one by one, over the years.
West Winging it... dept.
Aaron Sorkin is a class act as a writer. Maureen Dowd called him to "conjure up" a meeting where Barack Obama seeks advice from President Jed Bartlet. Wonderful stuff. Here's a snippet:
BARTLET: I'm supporting McCain.
OBAMA: Why?
BARTLET: He's promised to eradicate evil and that was always on my "to do" list.
OBAMA: O.K. —
BARTLET: And he's surrounded himself, I think, with the best possible team to get us out of an economic crisis. Why, Sarah Palin just said Fannie Mae and
Freddie Mac had "gotten too big and too expensive to the taxpayers." Can you spot the error in that statement?
Every bit as sharp as the wonderful "Yes, Minister".
See you in a couple of days!
TTFN