Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

^^^
Bugger.

I wonder if best practices says a dentist should inspect his tools when finished?...
When I send the bill down to old dentist, who subbed me out to someone, I'm going to suggest that for the future.

I know surgeons have to count their bandages and tools.
It's the MRI that gives me the creeps. I get them fairly routinely due to falling apart.
What if it sucked it straight up through top of my head?
that doesn't sound like it would end well

I need to go back to sleep but doesn't look promising.
time for an early cup of coffee
Wagtail, late evening for you?

 

[sodamo]

That had to be upsetting Drew
Sure hope the NC dentist acts responsibly.

 

[daugen]

Thanks David.
Funny, I come from a family of lawyers but would never consider suing a doc if it was an honest mistake.
this probably goes over the line a little.
Wonder if he ever noticed one of his pics was shorter than the others...
I just want them to pay the bill to fix it. Nothing more. Nothing less for sure.

When my Mother got uterine cancer, she was operated on by a prominent local surgeon, unsuccessfully.
Cancer not excised, bad margins, did nothing but spread the problem.
He came to my Father at our home and apologized for not doing the procedure differently.
He did the best he could and made the wrong decision.
My Mother would have died anyway for other reasons I'm quite sure, but can you imagine a doc today coming to your
home to apologize?
I believe my Father and the doctor polished off an entire quart of scotch together and left on good terms.
drink to ease the common pain.

if this was a drunk hurting me in an accident, woe to them. This was a guy trying to help me. He gets some slack.
but clearly should not profit on that procedure if he leaves something inside me. So he will pay the bill. Or his insurance company will.
He would be dumb to put in a claim. These folks make a LOT of money.

 

[ronjhall]

Coffee is done brewing. 30° with cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 34° with chance of early evening snow. Got .40" of rain. Got all the new items installed for security system yesterday. Need todo some cleanup today. Waiting for one more item to show up before doing final setup. Not sure what I will get into today.
Caught this little guy getting a couple minutes of late afternoon sunshine.

Drew, sorry to hear about tooth problems. Hope Dentist takes care of the bill.

Everyone stay safe and well.

Good Morning All.

 

[Helogabals]

Good morning

Still around -10 C (14 F)
As we started to share fuel prices - yesterday here retailers made a little price war. For few hours gas was as low as 5.9 $/gal. Regular price is ~ 6.8 $/gal
Motorists were queuing around petrol stations. IMHO silly, they could have saved maybe 10 $. Keep in mind - average gas tank for EU car is ~ 10 gal. One of my companies van has 80 liters (20 gal), which is considered big for passenger car but normal for commercial van


Other than that - yesterday late evening brought twins to dentist, the same clinic where I am going, just other doc, specialist for kids. One boy had rather deep cavity and just in dentist chair he started to tell that sometimes that tooth already was giving pain... So doc has to go went till nerve, but then instead to kill nerve she used some top-notch bio material for filling, which will turn into dental bone. Sounded like witchcraft, but those are latest discoveries
With other guy was more simple, just one small black spot.
Anyway - that was their first serious experience with dentist
Together for both boys paid little more than 200 $. Money well spent, IMHO. Theoretically could be 0.0, as here kids dental care is included in our "Medicare". But that "free" has some drawbacks - long queues, weak specialists, poorly equipped clinics. So I chose to pay all myself (later I will got 50 % off with my personal income tax reduction, just have to send pic of invoice to our IRS) and have top service by all means.
Kids were behind my back when I was paying and just later I figured that they felt sorry for this expenses they have unnecessarily created by poor dental hygiene, not brushing good enough etc
Gave them both lecture not to waste time if there is pain. Should have scheduled this some "moons ago"
That is what I have done wrong when I was their age. My father passed away early, mother almost has no influence on me - rebel teenager. State were falling - wild '90, there was not decent technologies, neither will, neither money to do proper medical services. So now I have to live with poor decisions I have made that time, when I was their age, ok little older, but the same mental capacities . Have agreed we will not the same mistake with them.

 

[wngsprd]

33, and starry sky. Rain gone after about 2 inches. Looking for 52 in sunshine.

Yesterday's rain and wife going to friend's for yoga Christmas party gave me some free time inside. What to do? After regular morning chores, decided to watch a 007 movie I didn't think I'd ever seen but had recorded...Moonraker...with one of least favorite James Bonds (Connery will always be #1.) Got about halfway through and decided I needed to roast coffee, since I had sent nearly all my recent roasts to the yoga ladies for Christmas. Then needed to check on something outside, and ended up taking a 35 degree rainy hike. The forest is so different in the rain or snow. Just finished the movie this morning.

Friday already?

 

[Buppies]

Hard to believe wngsprd Friday already time is flying

sorry about tooth trouble Drew

Lots of ice yesterday mainly in trees 1.48 inches of liquid no power loss. Cold air from my original forecast delayed until end of next week but with highs in 20s lows single digit will wake you up

Tractor still sleeping

Prayers for all our Country

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, the low temperature is 31 and going to a high of 32°F. Wind ESE 15 gusting to 23 mph. Snow today will amount to a couple of inches they say. We got 6" from the storm, I will plow that when I get back from town. I will turn the back blade around from this ) to this ( and cut it right down to the gravel. The only place I wont do that is where I plow across the well line. There I will only use the V plow.

I had 5 gigs of music on a 8 gig stick in the Jeep and when I quit using the Jeep on longish trips (157 miles) I stripped the music off that stick, the Dodge doesn't have such an option.
Now I find that the International I am driving has a usb port for music on the radio, so last evening I spent about an hour reloading the stick. Maybe I will stuff the stick into the computer today and listen to some of it.

Drew, good luck getting NC dentist to pony up the 1500. You may have to sue him for it. I do hope that you kept the evidence.

Town and dump run today and I had better get another 5 gallons of ethanol free high test fuel for the genny. I keep the genny full and 15 gallons on hand over winter, then use that up cutting grass in summer. What I don't use up in summer gets put into the Dodge in fall. That way I always have fresh fuel in winter for the genny.

Have a safe day all

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
It’s 40 and going to stay there all day. It’s still raining, total Is about 1.5” and the Davis and Tempest actually agree on that. Supposed to taper off later this afternoon.

Yesterday we decided that the sloppy freezing rain and snow would keep people home, so we made a Costco run. Traffic was light, but more shoppers than we expected, still not crowded, but we expected empty. I put things away and did some organizing in the shop, spent way too long watching Colin Furze build a tunnel from his workshop to his house on YouTube.
That’s what happens when no one calls with something for me to fix. Almost forgot to get the trash and recycling down to the street, not a pleasant task in the weather at the time. I kept delaying, thinking it would improve. When I remembered I didn’t do it it was no less miserable than the rest of the day, but now it was dark as well.

Today I’ve got to decide what will go in the crockpot for the boys this evening, as you can’t play music on an empty stomach. That may involve a trip to the grocery store.

First outing is grandson’s nursery school Christmas program this morning.
If nothing better comes up, I really should tidy up my desk in the shop and the music room, both of which sorely need it.

 

[KilroyJC]

Good Morning!

God has given us another chance to get it right (or at least not screw up too badly).

it is 26 degrees F colder this morning than it was this time yesterday — but it is DRY! So hopefully our delivery goes well later.

All nine hens decided that they were going to sleep out on the roosting bar in the covered run instead of the coop. I hope they enjoyed waking up in 25F weather! I haven’t gone out and checked then yet, but i can hear some screaming because they want their morning birdseed, and I have to reload pellets in the feeders.

I did some spot-checking on this year’s firewood with a moisture meter and I am coming in anywhere between 9% and 15% moisture, so that is good news (if you can trust the Horrible Fright meter. . .)

Sitting in the sink are another two dozen hard boiled eggs, waiting to be shelled and pickled. I need to find a good “sweet” pickle recipe for eggs since MrsKilroyJC does NOT do spicy. . . She starts sweating when I wave a bottle of Frank’s in the same room as her. . .

have a wonderful, safe, and happy Friday everyone!