So I got an email from vonage - they're offering to let me beta test a new D-link phone adapter. I get it free for a month, and it comes with its own number and an unlimited plan. At the end of said month, it gets sent back, and we get a free month of vonage. (Currently available for the low low price of $16.94 or something similar).

The irony of course is
A. I rarely use the phone more then one or two times a week, for important things like ordering pizza. One would think they'd know this, as they do keep track.
B. I don't have another actual phone. Maybe I do, it might be in the attic in the box of stuff that plugs into stuff. I'll have to figure this out before they send the new adapter.
C. I didn't even know I wanted a new adapter, though I suppose the logic is you can't ask the people who don't have one to test, so you might as well ask the people who do. Personally, I want a linksys one that will stack nicely with all the other blue linksys boxes in the networking pile. Of course I think I've mentioned this like a hundred times, so I'm going to not mention this again.
D. I'm not sure what one is looking for in a vonage adapter. I suspect their questions and such will let me know what i'm supposed to be evaluating. Do I give it bonus points for blue leds, or its sleek black plasticky goodness?

Ok, enough vonage. I know there were other things to discuss, but i forget them. I suppose if i stop running out of time in the morning i can figure out what else to do.

Anyone want some pears? After a weekend trip to the harry and david outlet, we came back with 2 boxes of 'maverick' (aka 2nd string) pears. Each box has 18 I think. Who in their right mind wants to eat 36 pears? One box is in the fridge at the moment, to retard ripening, the other box, even after eating 2 every morning is still not even half done. The point of super cheap but should be really expensive pears is not good if you end up eating pears 4 times a day because they're really good but you don't want them to go bad. Maybe this is why their normal packages actually sell you like 6 pears. Go figure.

So continuing into day 3 of recovery and things are going pretty well. There were some incidents that one might consider really bad, but If you're a trooper then it seems they're not much. Note to self: Percocet causes nausea. Very much so. So much that upon return trip to get a different pain medication, large manly dentists say yeah, they puke whenever they take it too. Anyway, with other fun narcotics things seem to be working better.

There's discussion of a weekend trip next weekend, to makeup for the suckage of this weekend. I think I'm open to suggestions for presents. (It isn't lost on some people it is cheaper to get teeth extracted with just novocaine then general anesthetic, so might as well get a lasting gift the next weekend). Feel free to post any suggestions.

I've caught up on many weekend type things because of staying home recouperating. Of course the plan was to get chinese food from the usual place since they had soup and soup is nice and soft, i called in the afternoon. Aparently they're closed. But don't bother to mention that this just means for whatever reason they are closed this saturday afternoon, (or maybe all of them, though we've gotten food there previously). So thinking they went out of business, ordered from another place. As I'm making the rather longer drive to the other place, i drive past the close one. Yeah its open. Crud. That's life.

Ok. Enough discussion of teeth, I think this whole scheme has proven that I am very much hoping my wisdom teeth stay happily where they are and can stay in my mouth, because I'm not of the type or constitution to withstand a weekend of general crappiness. Newfound respect I guess.

approximately 8 hours into recovery, and things are going reasonably well. At least as well as could be expected after removing 3 of the 4 (4th wisdom tooth is still in, it needs to move more before its more easily extracted).

One tooth was a giant pain in the jaw. Enough that breaks were required for the dentist and hygenist. The others were less of an issue. Still not a pleasant experience.

Recovery is continuing, with liquids being consumed.

I feel I should clarify my view on anesthesia. I think, that if there is a reasonable option, besides general anethesia: a controlled state of unconsciousness, accompanied by a partial or complete loss of protective reflexes, including loss of ability to independently maintain airway and respond purposefully to physical stimulation or verbal command, produced by a pharmacologic or non-pharmacologic method or combination thereof. it should be used. I think that to stop breathing on your own is a major procedure, and should be done only when really necessary. That doesn't mean that I'm against what is aparently known as sedation dentisty, where you take a pill an hour or two before (or get injected, whatever, its not intravenous) of some powerful anesthetic. Then you're still conscious enough to breath on your own, but don't experience the pain, and end up with more of relaxed state, so you have less anexity over the whole process. Things like Nitrous Oxide also fit into the "better then just a local anesthetic - but you're still breathing for yourself' category. By that logic, just gross stuff as crunching and pressure of teeth extraction would be more tolerable, because you probably won't remember them, and you're relaxed during the procedure. Stress management is important.

Hopefully that clears it up, since I'm sure some of you know think I'm overly mean or otherwise have weird views, but I'm just differentiating between options. Sure for surgery (be it oral or something else) where there's not another option General makes sense, but there's options for things and I think they should be used if they make sense.

I need to say something so the webpage doesn't look like crap. I also got up like 5 minutes later then my usual pushing it time, so I don't have time to say much.

Its sad I suppose.

In other news, it continues to be warm. I wonder if my jacket is mad because its winter but i don't need to wear it. I'll have to think about it some more.

I have a haircut today. Exciting, really.

Ok. That was lame, but I'll try and write more soon.

So going to dinner at last at one of the better chain italian restaurants (not olive taco...) we sat at the bar in front of the open kitchen. Its always at least mildly entertaining, depending on how busy they are. Last night was really busy, but that meant that people were ordering all sorts of things, which was getting yelled out to the cooks. The most interesting part was the short names for thing. Spagball being one of them. Spagball, in case its not immedietly aparent, is spaghetti and meatballs. (meatball? I've never actually ordered it, I don't know how many you get, I believe its 3) Anyway. So with that as the amusing, as well as a free order of mussles (I didn't eat any, but I hear they're in season, and they messed up and made them, so we got them sittting there). it was a good evening.

I also think spagball has entered the list of names for things, like squish, and stewage that are just meant to be called that. I know there were other names, but they didn't sound as funny as spagball.

Ok. so lets see if this works. We all remember the golden age of the internet with companies giving away things for no reason. So enter blingo:

If you sign up, and use it to search (all it does is search google) then you can win stuff. It seems very 'iwon.com' to me. It also doesn't seem to have spyware or anything else odd, beyond it sorta working on the 'get your friends to sign up' plan, except that they say if you win, your friends win too, so there's logic in having friends.

I figure it can't hurt, so sign up and search and stuff.

In other news, new years was nice, it was coldish, so it involved staying home and drinking 1/4 of a bottle of champagne, which really needs something done with the rest of it (mango or blood orange mimosa's are planned, but the bottle isn't getting better by the hour, so i should hurry up, it does have a cap though)

back to work tomorrow. poo.

that's it, happy blingoing.