Lunchtime Adventuring

Despite a great deal of work, I've still managed to go out on a couple of lunchtime rambles with commanderteddog in the last couple of weeks. Last week, we combined a visit to the new "Wave Pier" and some kind of pet museum that was next door.


The Natrel-Bot has returned to the placid waters of Natrel-Pond. Quite sensible, really. Everyone knows you get a heatsink bonus when firing weapons while partially submerged.


The Wave Pier. Also know as "Wheelchair Deathramp" and "The Place Where 'No Skateboards' Signs Are Especially Useless".


This is an icon waiting to happen.

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From epi_lj:
There's a meme going around where you're supposed to post a picture of you *RIGHT NOW* (i.e. at the time you see the meme without preparing or otherwise making yourself presentable, doing whatever you were doing).


I'm working from home today. Waiting for a teleconference, in fact.

Good News! Sort of!

Well, the dental surgeon went poking in my mouth today again. Last week, he'd entirely failed to find the weird lump of flesh at the back of my mouth. It is protruding from the jaw bone behind the top rearmost tooth on the left side. If you can picture that. My range of jaw motion is almost back to normal, and there's no pain any more.

This time, I took care give more precise directions. He poked his mirror in and said, "Oh! Look at that. What is that? There's a white..." *mumblemumble* *pokepoke* "There's a hole, or a... Does this hurt?" *Jab, wigglewiggle*

After a few moments of this, he relented. He said he was stumped by the precise nature of the "lump." It has a "hole" in it, and a small hard thing was impacted in it. He suggested it was a tiny salivary stone that was impacted in a minor salivary gland, noting that he'd looked at a major duct before, which is one reason he'd not seen this. It's also possible it was something I'd ingested. The stone(?) crumbled as he removed it. It left behind the lump. With a hole in it. He stuck a probe into it and found nothing. The lump remains.

I go back in a month, to get the lump inspected.