This morning I was leaving the 2-story Starbucks on Main St in Fairfax, Virginia and I went to the door upstairs that I always go out of. I wasn’t paying much attention. I was tired and had just been reading an interesting book, so my mind was elsewhere. Because of that I didn’t notice a hand written sign on the door that said “If Door is Opened Alarm Will Sound. Please use the door downstairs.” So I opened the door, and an alarm went off. Once my mind woke up I noticed the sign and felt like an idiot, but was also pretty annoyed. I always use that door. Why did they have to go and install an alarm on it over night?

I proceeded downstairs to tell the employees how much of an idiot I was, and that I hadn’t seen the sign. Fortunately, I didn’t feel as bad as I might have, because they didn’t even know the alarm had been installed. It had apparently been put in the night before, and no one had told them. Unfortunately, that also meant none of them knew how to turn it off. The alarm continued to blare for about 5 minutes as they looked for a key or something to shut it down, and then it stopped all by itself. No one knows why…

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Last Thursday was a “big” day. It was the day I had a severely rotten tooth extracted. I’ve had fillings and root canals in the past, but this was the first time I had the need of a dental surgeon. I had hard horror stories of people being in pain for weeks, and not being able to eat. All kinds of bad things.

The truth: it was a piece of cake.

The doc took longer preparing and talking to me than the whole process took. When he finally got started he shot me up with novocaine, got some pliers, and yanked the darn thing out. It broke in the process sine it was so weak, but he just pulled the other part out too. Next he stitched it up and put some gauze on it until the bleeding stopped.

I was prescribed pain meds for once the numbness wore off, and antibiotics to prevent infection. I was fully expecting for a painful weekend, but it turns out that the only day that it even felt like I needed any pain medication was the first day. After that I’ve been pain free, but a bit swollen.

This Thursday I get the stitches removed… ooooo.

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