retrofocus ramblings.

In the last 10 minutes on Twitter I found Conan O’Brien and a link to this Muppets‘ video.
The video is awesome and I cannot wait to see what Coco has to say.

Entertaining as always.

Approximately 14 hours from now I have the pleasure of being sedated in a doctor’s office to have my “braces” removed.
This is a great thing.
I probably should have been ‘blogging more about my recent run-in with the American medical system as his ‘blog of my is titled “maninplastic” for that very reason. In the Fall of 2007 I fell and spent 12 weeks wrapped in a plastic shell brace. Therein came the name.

Anyway on January 8, 2010 I had surgery and had these braces affixed to my upper and lower teeth. All of them. These suckers are definitely attached to my teeth and removal includes a trip to la-la land under the careful eye of some well-trained medical professionals.

Although this is slightly a cross-post with my Facebook page, I’ll add this x-ray image of my mouth to liven the page up.

See you without a metal mouth real soon!

peace,
-j.

x-ray image of my jaw with the braces

There’s a rap out there that the “media” is full of bad folks.
Not true. There are some, just like anything else.

And some really good ones too.

I follow this photographer on Twitter.

This was a rough one.

http://blog.chasejarvis.com/blog/2010/02/to-shoot-or-not-to-shoot.html

Already mentioned this on Facebook, but events of the last few hours have not dulled my annoyance at all.
Backing up a few days, Friday morning my now vintage Jeep decided it didn’t want to start. As I’ve been having intermittent starting issues here and there this was not a huge surprise.
Finally having the time to deal with it until Saturday morning I diagnosed the most likely cause, starter solenoid, and began the hunt for the $40 part.
No local parts store was left unchecked.
In the end nobody had it. It would have to be ordered and prepaid to boot. And I would have to come to the store to make payment. Great.
Anyway the guy at the local NAPA store was more helpful. He informed me that if I called back first thing Monday morning that the part could be loaded on the warehouse shuttle and I could likely pick it up Monday afternoon.
Nope, didn’t work that way.
I called this morning at 10-past-9. Different voice informed me that he didn’t have the part, but I could order it and pay over the phone.
This I did.
With any luck I can throw the Jeep back together before the rain and snow invades us Tuesday.
Fingers crossed!

The sky was blue and the sun was shining this afternoon. Had to take a walk around my neighborhood and it just so happens that my neighborhood includes a fancy dancy new outdoor mall which has plenty of nifty things to see. Given that the mall developers and I were basically building our businesses at the same time – I like to take daily walks at lunch to see what’s new on their side of the fence.

Looks like another new eating and drinking place is about to open!