(Hmmm, there's now an "embed media" link up above this box... be afraid. :) )
Generally it's been a whole lotta nothing going on this week, except for a dentist appointment on Wednesday that ended up taking 3 shots of novocaine by the time she finally nailed down the rogue nerve that's not really supposed to be connected to that tooth. (Now I think about it, that's about how things went the other four times I've had that tooth worked on these last couple of decades...) Much amusement with my human dribble-glass impressions until about 8:30 that night. Still, as long as I've put off starting with Root Canal #2 for now by getting that filling done, I count it time well spent -- especially considering that this was to replace the filling that broke all the way back in 2003! I told the dentist that she doesn't even want to look in Mum's mouth at this point...
- New Thing Learned for 16 April: The first and second Reichs were Charlemagne's Holy Roman Empire and Bismarck's unified Germany, respectively, although this usage was a Nazi retcon. [Source: The world encyclopedia of coins & coin collecting.]
- New Thing Learned for 17 April: It does improve the presentation to skein yarn back up on a different gear than the skein-diameter it was dyed at. Now if only I had a second swift to play with... [Source: Lou Spedale.]
- New Thing Learned for 18 April: The first purpose-built mosque in the United States was erected in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in the 1920s. [Source: America at a Crossroads, "the Muslim Americans"]
- New Thing Learned for 19 April: Donald E. Stephens had been mayor of Rosemont since its incorporation in 1956, possibly the longest uninterrupted mayoral career on record. [Source: nightly news reports.]
- New Thing Learned for 20 April: There's now an "embed media" link up above this text-entry box. :) [Source: was that there a couple of days ago...?]
Generally it's been a whole lotta nothing going on this week, except for a dentist appointment on Wednesday that ended up taking 3 shots of novocaine by the time she finally nailed down the rogue nerve that's not really supposed to be connected to that tooth. (Now I think about it, that's about how things went the other four times I've had that tooth worked on these last couple of decades...) Much amusement with my human dribble-glass impressions until about 8:30 that night. Still, as long as I've put off starting with Root Canal #2 for now by getting that filling done, I count it time well spent -- especially considering that this was to replace the filling that broke all the way back in 2003! I told the dentist that she doesn't even want to look in Mum's mouth at this point...
