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Today I had my first three cavities filled. Ever. I always thought my teeth were pretty healthy. I brush well, use dental floss, and use mouthwash to kill germs. I never had a cavity before... why should I worry now?

I visited the dentist for the first time in 4 years a couple weeks ago. The hygienist didn't mention any problems. She actually praised me for my good brushing habits. But the doctor immediately said, "It looks like there are four weak spots that are just big enough to be called cavities." I was shocked. He explained how small they are and why my toothbrush bristles were actually too large to even prevent them. In summary: they were no fault of my own.

So, we scheduled two appointments to fill them. Today was my first.

The room I was in was awesome. The doctor is a Columbus Blue Jackets fan (as am I) and had lots of expensive memorabilia covering the walls. The ones I stared at the whole time were a signed jersey from a couple years back and a goal tender's stick that was also signed by the entire team. He also had autographed photos of Rusty Klesla and Rick Nash among other items. Awesome.

The doctor numbed me up quickly with two shots. I was terrified beforehand that it would hurt like it used to when I was a kid. I had a lot of teeth pulled by my old dentist because they were not coming in correctly. The Novocaine shots hurt sooo bad back then. Luckily, this time they did not. The second one stung for only a millisecond. I was elated!

Twenty minutes later, the Novocaine kicked into high gear and my teeth were ready to be drilled. I didn't notice a thing while he was doing it except for the horrid stench of burning enamel prior to the hygienist putting the suction tube into my mouth.

Ten minutes after that, he applied the resin and I was on my way. I did my best to document the process using my iPhone. Afterwards, I recorded a short audio-journal on the event.

My fourth cavity will be filled ten days from now. Hopefully the experience will go just as well then! Enjoy!

First Cavities Audio (Right-click, save as, and play in Quicktime)

http://picasaweb.google.com/tdeniston/FirstCavities02

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After more than a year, I decided to update tiiim @ soangry.net with the new version of my last post. That's right... pictures of Halloween 2007!

Enjoy!

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Saturday night, a coworker hosted a Halloween party at his place. Several of us sponsored the booze and food. Quite an evening was made of it. I was on-call this week, which means I was on-call during the party. Costumes are much more fun when inebriated. Every FOB in the world must have sausage-fingered their logins as soon as I arrived at the party. I spent the better part of two hours fixing printers and unlocking accounts.

By the time I got my costume and broke the phone in half, it was 9:00 and the party was well underway. Most of our helpdesk showed up, but a few were missing. Overall, I think it was a good crowd (though there could have been more slutty nurses). There wasn't much mingling between the different groups of people... the helpdesk stuck with the helpdesk and the others stuck with the others (I don't know who most of the others were).

I got punched several times for inviting my old roommate who brought her boyfriend who brought his friends who brought their hot girlfriends. If the hot girlfriends had just been hot girls, I would have been carried around the party on the shoulders of my compatriots, but this was not the case. So, yesterday, I got punched in the arm and a charley horse and today, I have a bruised arm and leg. Oh, well. I consider the rest of the evening a moral victory.

Here are my pics from the party that I posted to flickr. Leave some comments with your favorite moment from the party or a link to your own pics from this year (whether you were at the Masonbrink party or not). Enjoy!

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Everyone has a favorite hot dog place. For people in Ft. Wayne and the surrounding area, it's gotta be Coney Island on West Main. For people near Toledo, it's Tony Packo's. Back in June, Columbus got a top-notch place of their own. It's called Gulla's and it's located in Delaware, OH. My roommate, Dan, introduced me to the place. The original Gulla's is in Bellaire, OH. The restaurant has a great history, which is available on their website.

This past summer, they opened their second location. Dan was there for the grand opening and participated in the hot dog eating contest.

That's Dan on the right, in the yellow hat.

If you ever talk to him, he's awful quick to tell you about the contest. He won his heat, eating four hot dogs in seven minutes. That doesn't seem like much to me. So I decided to time myself eating four of their standard dogs. The standard is a dog, steamed bun, chili sauce, mustard, and onions. It's delicious. After I ate the dogs, I found out that Dan didn't have onions on his during the contest. Shenanigans.

Anyway, I ate the first three dogs in three minutes. I realized that I was going to smoke Dan's record, so I cruised through the fourth, finishing with a time of 4:34.9 seconds for four Gulla Dogs with onions. Thirty minutes later, I ate half a plate of gravy fries, too. A new prescedent has been set. All challenges are accepted.

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Sorry it has been so long since my last post. Has it really been more than two months?! Anyways, I decided to take some time to update everything on the site. The theme should be new, the comment spam is gone, and some new features might appear in the near future. I also have a new weblog that I will be starting shortly. I have the design, layout, and graphics done, but I am just waiting to get the inspiration to start posting. Welcome back.

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