Journal mcgrew's Journal: -- Sorry, no journal today 10
I must have been wasted last night.
I'd told Amy I'd pick her phone up at the Sprint store, but she called in the morning, asking if Connor could drop her off and I'd take her to get her phone after my dentist appointment.
The dentist said he's going to pull all my teeth out. It seems I have advanced periodontal disease with signifigant bone loss, and am going to have to get dentures. Damn.
I discovered I wasn't out of pot; someone had gotten me high last week and given me enough for a bowlful, and it had been in my pocket all this time. Scary. We picked up her new phone and went to my house, drank a beer while I took a toke or two and watched The Big Bang Theory. Then we went to Felber's and had a couple more beers, then took a half pint of her rotgut whiskey and two forty ounce beers home and put a Cheech and Chong movie on, and finished the bowl.
That's the last thing I remember. She called this morning and said Connor had come by and got her, but I don't remember seeing him at all. You can't write what you can't remember! So there's no journal today, sorry.
I have to stop drinking whiskey. Especially with Amy.
She texted me in the morning asking how I felt; I'd woke up at 3:30 AM, so I guess I must have passed out pretty early. I put Big Bang on, and it was The Cushion Saturation, the episode with Leonard's mother.
The actress who played Leonard's mother is a dead ringer for Tammy. It sort of startled me; it was Tammy, only with a brain. She even dressed like Tammy does. Tammy looks like Leonard's mother and acts like Sheldon's mother. Now if I can get a girlfriend that looks like Sheldon's sister with Sheldon's mother's brain and Penny's personality...
Tammy called after I got to work, and I ignored it. She left a message; I only listened to half of it. Since she's gone over to the dark side, I have no wish to speak to her at all.
I went home for lunch, and there's a thing they do on WYMG, the local old rock radio station, called "You Tunes". You email them a list of three songs, and if they play them you get a free lunch at Sonic. I was startled to hear Erin's name. The three tunes were Nights in White Satin, which startled me more since I quoted its ending lines in the last journal, followed by Saturday Night's All Right For Fighting. Oops; Bar Wars. I think somebody must have clued her to these journals, and she obviously clued Ms Lady; Erin's the one who had introduced me to her. Damn. Maybe it was a coincidence; my life's full of unbelievable coincidences, and unbelievable non-coincidences as well. be glad you're not me. But at any rate, I stopped trying to call Ms Lady; the last time I tried was last week, and she hasn't called me. Apparently, that's done.
It's a damned shame, Ms Lady has a wonderful personality.
The third song was Paradise by the Dashboard Light.
Erin's You Tunes made me think of Ms lady, and the last journal, and now I have the blues. Odd. I can't figure out why.
I'd probably have a really interesting journal if I could remember last night. Especially since I found Amy's panties in the bathroom this morning. I wonder what went on? But at any rate, no journal today. Sorry.
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Yeah, I've wondered before if any one of your friends might happen upon your journals.. maybe should use pseudonyms from now one?
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Maybe... when it was the Paxil Diaries, a lot of the people that were in the stories didn't even recognize themselves, even though it was their names. Back then they were tickled pink to find that it was them, but maybe that's because they were all potsmoking musicians and nerds who loved the (extremely limited) fame.
I do use pseudonyms if I'm sure the person doesn't want to be recognized, or even if I think they might not want to be. Unless they piss me off; I'd named Harley "Pedro" in the earlier journals
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Why did you let it get to that stage?
I couldn't afford treatment when it was first diagnosed. I use a Crest Spinbrush and Listerine, but gum disease is a bitch that's hard to control, let alone get rid of. The greatest danger to your teeth isn't cavities, but gum disease. More important than your toothbrush is flossing and using Listerine. When you brush, brush your gums as well (I learned all this too late).
And haven't they come up with anything better than dentures yet
They have implants, but they are WAY
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Well all the best! Sometimes I wish I could fast forward to couple of generations in the future, where things like eyes, teeth, heart etc should be easy enough replacements and wouldn't affect your life. I was actually curious about your case cause I know a guy who smashed some teeth completely when he fell in his bath tub. But he easily got them restored and it looked like new. If you're going for a cheaper alternative try to find out if it can be undone later, like if you want to plumb for the expensive o
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If you're going for a cheaper alternative try to find out if it can be undone later
I did that when I got my eye implant, asking the surgeon if I could replace a monofocal lens later. The answer was "no" so I spent the extra money.
Implants are about $1k each, there's no way I could afford $30k for teeth.
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Don't know if you've considered it but India is great for medical tourism. You can get the same job done there for much less. I know someone who went there for some knee replacement or something (can't remember what it was exactly). The major cost would be the ticket....
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I'd have trouble paying a speeding ticket, much less a ticket to India.
Be Afraid When... (Score:2)
The day they start setting up Slashdot accounts so they can reply to the journals, then you might want to be afraid. In the meantime, I will give credit to your friend Erin - that was a fairly unique way of saying "yeah, I've seen these" - or it might be coincidence... and I might have a winning lottery ticket. Regarding the teeth - you might want to consider implants - more expensive but then you don't have the whole denture thing going.
If you make it out to the SF Bay Area - speak up - will happily pr
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I'm guessing coincidence; Tammy wanted to get back with me, and threatened to find out who Ms lady was and screw it up for me. My best guess is that's what happened, since it was only a couple of days after the threat that Ms Lady stopped taking my calls. Erin surely wouldn't have expected me to hear the YouTunes, as it's on noon on weekdays and she knows I work, and it was a couple of weeks after Tammy's threats.
I'm now refuse to speak to Tammy. So I'm now not talking to either Tam (Tami got on my shitlist