Well what do you know friends? I was awakened this morning by a call setting up the next appointment in my seemingly never-ending dentistry saga!

That makes a total of two appointments set for the upcoming weeks (the first was set on Friday for the relatively minor cleaning and filling, while the one this morning was for the oral surgeon to see what it’ll take to remove those nasty little broken off teeth). I just can’t tell you what a relief it is to know that this is actually going to happen!

The thing is, we are talking about me – you know, the “urban hermit” who never leaves his apartment except to stave off starvation or to reduce the stench from accumulated garbage! – actually making multiple trips away from said apartment to, of all things, intentionally allow strange people to jab needles into, and yank things out of…