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Three Little Things To Notice and Be Grateful For:
- Socks.
- That pickles are cucumbers but taste so different.
- Gabagool.
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The song in my head when I woke up: “A Thousand Years,” by David Hodges
Favorite line from the song in my head when I woke up: I have loved you for a thousand years/I’ll love you for a thousand more — (YOU… yes…. YOU!!!!!!!)
Tooth Cleaning Tunes: My drive to dentist was done to a few songs from John’s Ultimate Chill Song Compendium.
- Kind and Generous, Natalie Merchant
- And So It Goes, Billy Joel
- The Reason, Hoobastank
- Call Me, Shinedown
- She Talks To Angels, Black Crowes
- I Want To Hold Your Hand, The Beatles
- I Will Follow You Into The Dark, Death Cab For Cutie
- No Woman, No Cry, Bob Marley
Something I’m looking forward to today: Boy The Elder and DIL are coming over for dinner.
Something I’m looking forward to in the next seven days: Poker night on Friday.
Something I’m grateful for from yesterday: Tons of vindication with playing the long game as a baseball coach, doing things the right way and letting our actions and results speak for us.
What I’m writing: Yesterday’s two crappy pages involved some journaling.
What I’ve written: More writing from when I was editor of the Faribault Daily News: Where is the police chief?
Top Ten thoughts while sitting in the dentist’s chair getting my teeth cleaned yesterday.
- We have come a long way with a lot of technology … but we haven’t invented a dentist drill whose sound doesn’t make your skin crawl? Someone needs to invent a muffler or something that turns that shrill sound into merry-go-round music.
- Who invented the fork and could it be improved as an instrument to shove food into our mouths?
- The hygienist finished her work and said, “Let me get your goodie bag before you go.” The goodie bag had floss and a toothbrush in it. Dental hygienists are the people who gave pennies and fruit on Halloween. Let’s slow our roll on using “goodie bag” with anything you get at the dentist.
- I wonder how that stain got on the ceiling? Is that … blood?!?!?
- Dr. Giggles was the movie I took now-Wifey Poo to for our third date. Afterward, I asked to kiss her. She said no.
- If that gritty toothpastes dentists use is so good at getting your teeth white, and it is, why isn’t that stuff sold commercially with one of those whirly brushes? Big Dentist controls all.
- They aren’t actually showing Rachel naked … are they? (And this one needs a bit of an explainer. There’s a little TV in the hygienist’s workstation, and an episode of Friends was on. I have only caught bits and pieces of a few episodes of friends but grew up in an era where Jennifer Aniston was haaawt. So in this episode she’s home alone for a night and so starts walking around her apartment naked … and is loving it. But, of course, the hygienist leaned me back in the chair and didn’t adjust the TV so I could, ya know, watch it while her hands were in my mouth. So I’m gonna awesome that, no, we didn’t actually get to see Rachel naked.)
- Should I get a coffee from someplace on the way home to reward myself for this early-morning torture session?
- Who was the first person who got paid to clean people’s teeth? That must have been a really strange conversation … “Hey Grog … this might be an overstep … but can you clean my teeth for me?” “Sure … but it’ll cost you …” And then dental insurance was born.
- Of course I have no cavities, lady. My mouth is a temple.
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