Saturday, May 30, 2009
So true, Bobby Mcaaron. I thought about that same thing before, what medieval dentistry was like. Wikipedia gives some good historical accounts. Some of the old iron tools looked like stuff you'd see in torture chambers. Forget xrays, or impacted wisdom tooth. I don't think anyone WANTED to live past their 30's!
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GURPS Dentist
Ja -El, that sounds like suck to me. Tooth pain does not rule. I can not imagine what life would be life if we lived hundreds of years ago and had dental issues. No antibiotics, no anesthesia (ignoring alcohol) and no dentist that you would want to visit. No wonder people were mean back then.
On the up side, eLzar, I found some wheels for you. Bail that Prius machine and roll with this fine machine:
D>M>
On the up side, eLzar, I found some wheels for you. Bail that Prius machine and roll with this fine machine:
D>M>
Friday, May 29, 2009
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Yike Johnny, good luck. Teeth stuff is always the worst. It's easy to let things slide but the 2nd something is messed up in our mouthes, SO much pain and so much hassle. Hopefully the operation isn't too big of a deal. Why the antibiotics BEFORE they take it out? Is there some kind of infection right now?
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
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Major toothache
Fuck... my first molar tooth is killing me... I thought it was remedied in the philippines, the previous doctor diagnosed it as a hairline crack and drilled it to remove the crack line and then filled it up with paste. It was fine for the last month, only a little sensitive, then it just hit me this morning. Its a constant throbbing and if i bite on my tooth its even worse.
Doctor is not available until tomorrow 3pm..... omfg. so it's advil and ice for another 24 hours
eh..! When ur in that much static pain, my mind just doens't feel like doing ANYTHING... except lay in a fetal position in the corner and cry..
Edit: Just got back from the doctors, had an vacant opening, basically have to get the tooth extracted! Have to take antibiotics for 5 days before.
Doctor is not available until tomorrow 3pm..... omfg. so it's advil and ice for another 24 hours
eh..! When ur in that much static pain, my mind just doens't feel like doing ANYTHING... except lay in a fetal position in the corner and cry..
Edit: Just got back from the doctors, had an vacant opening, basically have to get the tooth extracted! Have to take antibiotics for 5 days before.
Monday, May 25, 2009
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Post-Con Wrap-Up/Links
First, a series of links to some of the stuff discussed this con:
Jim Gaffigan - This special is available on the Watch it Now - it's very good! It kept popping into my mind this con - Hot Pockets
The new Band of Brothers "sequel" - The Pacific
Louis CK - Suck a bag of dicks.
ANYWAYS, con was good! Going up Thursday was nice and a good mellow start to the con. Like Mike said, was a good way to get the "hi, how ya doing" part of of the way with everyone catching up and get right into gaming.
I probably played more games than most cons, so that was a plus. On the other hand, Sunday was probably one day too many for me, so next time I'll trim a day on one end.
Good to see everyone, sorry we missed you Johnny!
Jim Gaffigan - This special is available on the Watch it Now - it's very good! It kept popping into my mind this con - Hot Pockets
The new Band of Brothers "sequel" - The Pacific
Louis CK - Suck a bag of dicks.
ANYWAYS, con was good! Going up Thursday was nice and a good mellow start to the con. Like Mike said, was a good way to get the "hi, how ya doing" part of of the way with everyone catching up and get right into gaming.
I probably played more games than most cons, so that was a plus. On the other hand, Sunday was probably one day too many for me, so next time I'll trim a day on one end.
Good to see everyone, sorry we missed you Johnny!
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Another Year, Another Recap
Kublacon is passed yet again, and overall felt it was a good one. Plagued by the standard analysis paralysis of herding 8+ people in one direction was a pain, when things did move, everyone for the most part seemed happy. I got some WWII action in, some good group games, decent sleep in the van cum-quarantine/sanctuary and ate surprisingly healthy for a con - actually for just being me.
Highlights include:
- Sgt. Brichman of Company 1821, The Second Beards
- Imagining how to best use the claimed artifacts from Incan Gold all at once, without getting into specifics, some terms bandied about were: matterhorning, 5-holing, fleshlight, golded can, 2nd beard, poly-orchard, and *ahem* golden anus.
- Finding the front snap-in curtain for the van and creating a total room of privacy and comfort (in the parking structure) that facilitated actually sleeping without fear of basey, saw-logging as I inevitable fall asleep last. I felt refreshed when I wasn't sleeping off a day of Gin and Tonics.
- Gin and Tonics!
- Finishing my 3 year quest to have cheesebread served with my salad bar at Sizzler. I have asked for the past 2 years for the bread that is advertised, and verified with my server, to be delivered to my table. I never received it until this year, almost as we were finished eating and ready to leave.
- The sketchy knife stabbing old man and grandson behind us at Sizzler. So weird.
- Expereincing the joy of Jon's friend Matt as he purchased a crap-load of BB stuff, watched our game, and then talked about playing and painting it all while asking rules questions. It made me feel warm inside.
- 2 games of Combat Commander! 1 game of Up Front! 1 game of Blood Bowl!
- Only purchased one game related item all con: the mosquito expansion for Hive! I play it at work all the time and was really, really hoping it would be at Kubla, and it was! All the other games I looked at and salivated over I knew I would never play with myself or anyone else for a good number of years, so why blow good food and diaper money on them? It was quite liberating.
- Coffee in the mornings looking at my Raid on St. Nazaire game while watching the convention slowly wake up.
- Tricking myself into thinking that gaming people are the normal people in the world, and that conventions simply are the standard. Then the 4th wall is shattered when I see stewardesses and business people that have the misfortune of staying at our hotel for a night, surface. I am then reminded of the world outside the bubble that is Kubla and am mildly saddened.
- FYI, when I tried to pay for parking using one of the machines, it said I owed $91.00 to park! Eek! Then I remembered there was a parking validation machine on the convention floor somewhere and saught it out. It said parking would be $6.00 a day, and I thought 'cool'! Then I validated my ticket and went back to the machine to pay and ended up paying $6.00 for the WHOLE CON! Small favors, no?
Highlights include:
- Sgt. Brichman of Company 1821, The Second Beards
- Imagining how to best use the claimed artifacts from Incan Gold all at once, without getting into specifics, some terms bandied about were: matterhorning, 5-holing, fleshlight, golded can, 2nd beard, poly-orchard, and *ahem* golden anus.
- Finding the front snap-in curtain for the van and creating a total room of privacy and comfort (in the parking structure) that facilitated actually sleeping without fear of basey, saw-logging as I inevitable fall asleep last. I felt refreshed when I wasn't sleeping off a day of Gin and Tonics.
- Gin and Tonics!
- Finishing my 3 year quest to have cheesebread served with my salad bar at Sizzler. I have asked for the past 2 years for the bread that is advertised, and verified with my server, to be delivered to my table. I never received it until this year, almost as we were finished eating and ready to leave.
- The sketchy knife stabbing old man and grandson behind us at Sizzler. So weird.
- Expereincing the joy of Jon's friend Matt as he purchased a crap-load of BB stuff, watched our game, and then talked about playing and painting it all while asking rules questions. It made me feel warm inside.
- 2 games of Combat Commander! 1 game of Up Front! 1 game of Blood Bowl!
- Only purchased one game related item all con: the mosquito expansion for Hive! I play it at work all the time and was really, really hoping it would be at Kubla, and it was! All the other games I looked at and salivated over I knew I would never play with myself or anyone else for a good number of years, so why blow good food and diaper money on them? It was quite liberating.
- Coffee in the mornings looking at my Raid on St. Nazaire game while watching the convention slowly wake up.
- Tricking myself into thinking that gaming people are the normal people in the world, and that conventions simply are the standard. Then the 4th wall is shattered when I see stewardesses and business people that have the misfortune of staying at our hotel for a night, surface. I am then reminded of the world outside the bubble that is Kubla and am mildly saddened.
- FYI, when I tried to pay for parking using one of the machines, it said I owed $91.00 to park! Eek! Then I remembered there was a parking validation machine on the convention floor somewhere and saught it out. It said parking would be $6.00 a day, and I thought 'cool'! Then I validated my ticket and went back to the machine to pay and ended up paying $6.00 for the WHOLE CON! Small favors, no?
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Friday, May 22, 2009
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Play by Play...
Our rooms are on the third floor on the east side, facing the atrium and separated by one room. While the room is not close to the elevators, it is near the stairs and seems like a good place. Unfortunately, some trees obstruct the view into the atrium and some of the light light in the early part of the day.
The Con has not started yet; however, yesterday afternoon, there was a one day convention for PriceWaterHouseCooper. Or as Rude put it, aren't those the guys that hand out the big checks for some sweepstakes bullshit. Brilliant. Appearently they are giving away $1 million dollars that may only be redeemed at the cafe on the attrium level and only when one uses those huge sized checks as for remmitance.
We managed to pick up a shit load of beer, wine and booze for the event, although, we only have one bottle of tonic, so those wishing for Gin and Tonic may want to pick up some more. We do have Jack and Gin and apparently DaveDefeat has a rather large bottle of Brandy he picked up for $9.99. Yum Yum... Gotta love poor student alcohol.
Our Refrigerator is marginal at best. We have not checked out the other room, but at least for drinking sake, there is an ice machine right down the hall. We managed to make a makeshift drink cooler in the sink and drink quite a bit of beer last night.
On the gaming front, jr0n, Rude and I played a basic level game of Pandemic. We managed to win without too much difficulty. Rude seemed to like the game and expressed interest in playing again. The three of us also played a Rio Grande card game whose name escapes me. The game was fun and jr0n handily lost as he flouted his rules mastery over our heads. As is typically with the group, Rude started with militia offensive and forced the game down the Militia path. Violence wins again. Myke Hunt was not able to participate in our gaming adventures due to an evening graduation honor function.
Food land yes! We hit up In N' Out. Yes! We also made a trip to El Torito. Yeah, it worked out fine. Typical El Torito fare. We had to roll ourselves out the door we were so stuffed. That place is a total glutton's paradise.
We also spend a good deal of time watching, commenting on, reading out loud and even influencing on Myke's grading of his archaeology class final exams. There were some quite atrocious answers that were worth a chortle or two. The best part of course was not the grading so much as Rude, jr0n and me grading, but the renaming of one of Myke's students to Cunt Lips or Georgia O'c-lips. Time's up play last year lives on in memory. We should definately play again this year.
Also, DaveDefeat and Ian arrived at 4:30am but are so fueled up on Caffeine, they have still not slept yet. This sounds like a train wreck of sleeping waiting to happen.
I had to get up at 5:30am this morning to make it back to work today. Boo... I am at work until hopefully about 3pm. Should be back at Boobla Khan around 4-4:30pm is my guess.
D>M>, signing out for now.
The Con has not started yet; however, yesterday afternoon, there was a one day convention for PriceWaterHouseCooper. Or as Rude put it, aren't those the guys that hand out the big checks for some sweepstakes bullshit. Brilliant. Appearently they are giving away $1 million dollars that may only be redeemed at the cafe on the attrium level and only when one uses those huge sized checks as for remmitance.
We managed to pick up a shit load of beer, wine and booze for the event, although, we only have one bottle of tonic, so those wishing for Gin and Tonic may want to pick up some more. We do have Jack and Gin and apparently DaveDefeat has a rather large bottle of Brandy he picked up for $9.99. Yum Yum... Gotta love poor student alcohol.
Our Refrigerator is marginal at best. We have not checked out the other room, but at least for drinking sake, there is an ice machine right down the hall. We managed to make a makeshift drink cooler in the sink and drink quite a bit of beer last night.
On the gaming front, jr0n, Rude and I played a basic level game of Pandemic. We managed to win without too much difficulty. Rude seemed to like the game and expressed interest in playing again. The three of us also played a Rio Grande card game whose name escapes me. The game was fun and jr0n handily lost as he flouted his rules mastery over our heads. As is typically with the group, Rude started with militia offensive and forced the game down the Militia path. Violence wins again. Myke Hunt was not able to participate in our gaming adventures due to an evening graduation honor function.
Food land yes! We hit up In N' Out. Yes! We also made a trip to El Torito. Yeah, it worked out fine. Typical El Torito fare. We had to roll ourselves out the door we were so stuffed. That place is a total glutton's paradise.
We also spend a good deal of time watching, commenting on, reading out loud and even influencing on Myke's grading of his archaeology class final exams. There were some quite atrocious answers that were worth a chortle or two. The best part of course was not the grading so much as Rude, jr0n and me grading, but the renaming of one of Myke's students to Cunt Lips or Georgia O'c-lips. Time's up play last year lives on in memory. We should definately play again this year.
Also, DaveDefeat and Ian arrived at 4:30am but are so fueled up on Caffeine, they have still not slept yet. This sounds like a train wreck of sleeping waiting to happen.
I had to get up at 5:30am this morning to make it back to work today. Boo... I am at work until hopefully about 3pm. Should be back at Boobla Khan around 4-4:30pm is my guess.
D>M>, signing out for now.
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