Good morning. ☕☕☕
16 January 2026
I went to the dentist yesterday to have my two front teeth worked on. A couple of weeks late if all I wanted for Christmas were my two front teeth 😆. Nothing dramatic—just fillings. My wife and I both carry dental insurance, so I walked out with my wallet still intact.
While I was in the chair, the dentist insisted on nitrous oxide because my blood pressure was running a little high. First time I’ve ever used it. I don’t know why I always said no before—probably some macho notion that I needed to “tough it out.” If I were truly that tough, I guess I would’ve said, “Skip the nitrous, skip the anesthetic, and hand me the drill” 😂.
One thing that always gets me in a dentist’s office is the sound of the drill. It hits the same spine‑tingling frequency as fingernails on a chalkboard 😱. My hearing aids seem specially engineered to pick up and amplify every annoying noise. I meant to turn them off before we started, but forgot. C’est la vie.
Not so long ago, I would’ve slipped away from work for the appointment and headed straight back afterward. Now? I declared a personal holiday and took a nap in my recliner. That’s the problem with being able to do what you want when you want—you actually can.
I recently poured a new driveway, and there’s a chunk of concrete from the old one sitting along the path to the mailbox. It’s not large, and I don’t need to move it, but every time I pass it, instead of tossing it into the brush, I tell myself I’ll get to it later. I have time to do or not to do—that is the question.
“Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what the hell happened.” — Jennifer Yane
“Blessed are they who hold lively conversations with the helplessly mute, for they shall be called dentists.” — Ann Landers
“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” — Albert Einstein
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