Hi, yeah, wow, where the hell have I been and why silent?
My version of a smile these days.
Not easy to explain, other than problems with my mouth. Been in distracting pain since my visit to the dental clinic down in Los Algodones, Mexico. I also accidentally got a look at myself in a mirror — I thought I’d dumped or hidden them all then but stumbled across one that was angled just right to get a good look at myself, before I could look away.
I’m also eating a slew of pills and one night managed to black out and on my way towards the floor put a deep hole in my head. Woke up with blood everywhere, a freaked out dog (licking my wound) and so forth. I could not remember why I wasn’t in bed.
But let me sum up the actual bad part: Since my Mexican sojourn about a month ago I have a total of six teeth left (an upper front right side cluster, all but one already dead via root canals, but they are hanging in) and will have to wait another five months before I get my set of replacements, at which time the doc will yank the six now remaining and we start over again (post-yank, six months of healing, and so forth); so I’m looking at going on a year before I’ll be able to grin sardonically, as in days of old (minus the theme from Deliverance twanging in the background).
[It’s cheaper to have your remaining teeth yanked and all replaced, than sticking new ones in one by one. The dentist (in Mexico) makes about $2,000 an hour, I figure. In the states, it’s more like $10,000. Think maybe they have an agreement, at least on implants?]
Older, uglier, stupider, occasionally unable to walk without falling down and perforating my melon…
In case you don’t know: Flying your flag upside down is a sign of distress.
…and none of this counts towards the real problem, i.e., the state of the planet for us humans. That there is a handful of you that are curious about my view on how the world really works, what it all means, and so forth, is both encouraging and discouraging.
But more on this to come. I’ve decided that quitting this blog (over a month of silence is close to quitting) would be a form of suicide, which I’m not quite ready for. So please hang in. I’ll try to come up with something within the next few days.
My main problem has been picking a subject. No matter where I look I’m seeing armageddon, and I’d rather not dwell on that. Please forgive the uselessness of this post; I really needed to clear my throat.
Oh, and should you get this on December 25, and believe in that crapola, I hope you get through the day all right.
Allan
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