Second filling done

Blaaah. Doc gave me two needlefuls of the strong stuff right at the start, and my face slid off within minutes this time. The whole operation was over very quickly. My tongue feels like I'm slowly eating pop rocks, which is a little disturbing, but I'm not worried yet. Getting out of the chair, I tried to say "My tongue feels like pop rocks," and actually said "Muh tuh felleh pa ra," to which the doc said "I know" with sympathetic gravity. So I'm guessing it's a known effect, even if he was just humoring me.

Am eating a Dunkin's breakfast now even though I can barely taste it (and need to tilt my head to one side) because I intentionally fasted beforehand this time, avoiding even coffee, since the dental tech last week said that caffeine might make the anesthesia work more slowly. So I'm famished and cotton-headed and just can't wait three more hours!

Never again. One lifetime subscription to Dental Floss of the Month Club for Me, Please.

Hats

I got a new hat, and it's nice. I used my big brain to figure that the giant Burlington Coat Factory store just down the street from my house could probably set me up, and indeed this is probably the nicest hat I've ever gotten myself. A simple black woolen cap, and inexpensive, yet seems in form and function a step above the generic stretchy synthetic things I buy every winter. Hope I can hold onto this one... Well, if I don't, at least I know where to go.

They actually had a rather nice selection of seasonal men's toppers, and I almost got a more expensive fuzzy hat that reminded me of the "It's sable!" Seinfeld episode, but I concluded that it didn't offer adequate ear protection.

Someday I will try to become a regular hat-wearer. Maybe. I'm not certain that I'd be able to make it work, without advertising my dorkiness; my personal observation suggests that it's harder than it looks, especially here in Nurdville USA. Too often I see a younger man with a fedora and my first thought (taking in everything else in his dress and poise) is "aha, obvious SCAdian!" or whatever. That there's a fella who hand-paints his miniatures, if you know what I'm saying. Of the men I know personally, I seem to recall that cnoocy (and maybe temvald??) does the hat thing well, and I'm not sure that anyone else really tries... maybe I'd need to shave first. Hmf.