Events

This has been an interesting couple of days.

The oral surgeon says that my gum is fine, but that rubbing of the dental plate has created a mass of 'fibrous tissue' which can't stay there, and won't just go away. So, in two weeks, he'll cut it out. What's interesting is that fibrous tissue is actually normal there -- this is more like scarring. Whatever, it's irritating as all hell to have the process delayed. I think he's at fault, but there's no point in bringing that up.

My mother's doing well in the hospital -- the Cardizem dropped her heart rate from the 130 BPM range down to a normal 85. They're doing it with an IV, but will start her on pills soon. Our guess is that she'll be there another two or three days.

While she's in the hospital, her PC just up and died. It doesn't even known there's a hard drive in there any more. I know we're going up to my mother in laws's house soon to install her new PC, and I suspect we'll be trucking the old one down here for my mother to use -- almost entirely, as a crossword puzzle tool.

We ordered a table to support the television (the old one, for the moment). It arrives on Tuesday. Nice part is, it doesn't commit us to upgrading the TV, and it's an improvement in the way the room looks. I suspect that the coffee table will end up in the daughter's room.

We've decided how to handle my daughter's school problems. It's not onerous but its not going to be fun, either. The word that best describes it is 'probation'. Because she tried hard, she does get to go the anime convention in a month. Because she got decent grades in four of the five key subjects, she gets to continue in color guard for the remainder of this season (it ends in November). Because she tanked on the one key subject, she only gets to continue with it in the next season if she gets better at the one, and maintains the other. If she continues, it's subject to being stopped immediately if she slacks off.

For sure, we know how to have fun!