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[Aeson]

I tried the halfling barbarian idea once. I can't remember what happened. I think we only played once. I wanted a chance to climb up on the enemy and stabbity stab stab until dead. Never got the chance. I did have a chance to roleplay a little. I wanted to intimidate an orc prisoner in a cell. I jumped up on the bars, reaching through and yelling let me at em.
A halfling trying to intimidate an orc wasn't enough for the DM. He said the orc didn't understand common. I think it would have made it better. One day I'll give it another go.

 

[Aeson]

Tomorrow I go for a follow-up appointment with the dentist. I've had pain in my jaw when I open my mouth to eat and chew. It's hard to open wide enough to eat even a sandwich. This started a week after. My sister said she had a similar issue, said it was from the novacaine. Is it because a week later the novacaine wore off and this pain from what happened? Is it the injection causing the pain? Is it something else?

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

No clue!

 

[Aeson]

You didn't have a similar problem?

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

You didn't have a similar problem?

No!

The worst part of my recovery is when stuff in my mouth winds up in the little fleshy pocket where my tooth was extracted. Even though I’m trying to chew exclusively on my left side, sometimes, things slide over. Most of the time, it’s not a problem, but if it’s like a shard of ice or some of the crust of toasty bread, it can be unpleasant.

Worse, though, have been the times when one of my daily meds gets caught, and starts to dissolve in my mouth. Generally, pills don’t taste good.

 

[Aeson]

The problem I have besides the jaw pain is sometimes if I'm eating something like chips or crackers it might jab the spot. It's not real bad but I can sometimes taste a small amount of blood. So far no pills stick around but I have had things like small seeds hang around. Usually a swish of whatever I'm drinking will clear it out.

Tonight I had difficulty eating what I had taken for lunch. I stopped at QT and bought a bag of chips. I was eating them slow and mostly one at a time. That worked out. Also I had small snack bag of these oatmeal cookies. They're for pack lunches. I was eating those one at a time. Little nickle sized cookies. Doing things this way allowed me to savor what I was eating more.

 

[Aeson]

Q: What do you call guests that over stay their welcome?
A: Children.

I get really bored at work sometimes. lol
I told my mom once after making a bad joke; I know I'm not as funny as I think I am. THAT got a laugh out of her.

 

[Aeson]

The dentist thinks the pain is from muscle soreness. His advice was to stretch the muscles out as often as possible and take Motrin as needed. Open wide like I'm yawning. That won't be problem tonight. Eating some of the things I have avoided should help to. I've been awake all day because the roof was being replaced. The roofers are cleaning up now. I hope to get a few hours before work.

 

[Mad_Jack]

No progress on getting the car on the road (or off the road, as the case may be, since it's sitting in the street right now), but since there was nothing more I could do with the vehicle I took the time to finish drilling out the hole in the basement wall to replace the leaking pipe.
I had a plan, and my old man screwed it up. But fortunately not to a serious degree this time. I told him, while I was working on the car, that the next step in the process of taking off the old, leaking pipe was to cut one hose clamp that was stuck, and then to pull out the old coupling without damaging the end of the pipe. I was going to use my Dremel, but the old man decided to cut the hose clamp with his diamond bit on his grinder. I ended up losing an inch of good pipe because he went right through the hose clamp and halfway through the pipe. Inside the house, he cut off the leaky pipe near the wall as ordered, but somehow managed to lose the metal coupling with the two attached hoseclamps that was on the pipe in the process.

He also cost me another $130 because I had bought a large concrete hole bit for the drill, and the old man's human-black-hole powers struck again - It was nowhere to be found today, despite my having seen it literally two days ago in the exact place where it's been sitting for the past several weeks.
Had to buy a new one.

But I currently have water in the house for the first time in six months although I'm cautiously watching to see if my handiwork holds.