Good morning! Are you up yet? What's your plans for today?

[Jshooter71]

Thanks again, Dan… I’m feeling quite rested from this past weekend. I hope you get to feeling better too.

[Blowpipe Sam]

Mornin y’all!  I hope to spend the next hour or so plinking with various airguns but at noon I have to head up to the big city to see the dentist.  Later I’ll be eating soft food and working in my new man cave.

[Jshooter71]

I hope everything went well, Carter. I pray you heal quickly.

[Blowpipe Sam]

Mah mouf ib numb!  An ah ain’t got no teef!  Day pullt em oud!

I am officially a Codger now.  Maybe even a Geezer!  My teeth began disappearing back when I was in my twenties.  Bad judgement and the Marquis of Queensbury accounted for quite a few of them.  Once I learned to hold my liquor I stopped losing so many.  Despite the odd motorcycle accident and the infrequent occasion of fisticuffs I tenaciously hung on to my last dozen until just recently.  The dentist came for them today.  I’ll be on a liquid diet for a while (BEER!). I know dentures will be an annoyance but anything will be better than the nagging pain and frequent infections that I’ve been dealing with for the last few years.

Looking forward to having a real smile again though.  When you are 6’6”, weigh 300 lbs, and were plenty ugly to start with a bunch of missing teeth don’t make you look any prettier.

I’m taking tomorrow off to recover.  Got some good drugs from the saw bones.  I’m gonna lay around the shanty and get a good buzz on!

[avator]

I had the remaining few of my upper janked out a couple years ago and much like you, I looked forward to a full set of choppers without pain and covering my mouth to smile. Fast forward to today and it seems I just traded one bad situation for another....
I can't wear the dang things... they make me gag. So now I'm left with the only option it eating food with basically the consistency of baby food.
Sometimes I can stand them long enough to enjoy something semi crunchy but it's not often. The other issue is that they cover the roof of my mouth and I lose alot of the flavor of what I'm eating.
I'm to the point where I'm going to take them to the shop and go to work on them with my Dremel. Then I'll have to glue them in because removing the roof removes the suction that holds them in.
To top things off, one of my lower fronts has become loose and I will lose it soon. I fear I will lose all of them to the disease that caused the uppers to go.

[Jshooter71]

Good morning GTA! Happy Tuesday! Up at 0430 CT. It’s 82* right now and I can’t believe it’s only Tuesday, it’s supposed to get to 103*. I’m going to get an early start, I have 2 a/c units to work on and at least 1 freezer to work on at this site. It’s a 45 minute ride and the sooner I get these 2 a/c units going, the better. I’m looking forward to the weekend, they’re saying this morning’s low temperature is about this weekend’s high temperature if we get some rain.

[Lt. Dan]

Good morning GTA!  Up at 0530 CT. This is the second day of not feeling well. Dull headache, my head is all stopped up, no energy. My Covid test was negative.  I hope everyone has a great day.

[avator]

Get well soon Dan.

A major player on my team put in his notice yesterday. August 5 will be his last day. He has been with me since nearly the beginning. He knows his job well and I counted on him for things that others might have difficulty with. I've talked him out of leaving a few times in the past but I think his mind is set this time.
Replacing him will not be easy but it has to be done. I have a couple potential transfer candidates from other department but that is like pulling teeth around here. Department leaders can deny transfers. And, quite honestly, who in their right mind would give up anyone worth my interest. Offering him more money is out of the question because wages are set around here. They don't increase on merit.
The other option is to train a new hire or a temp. A temp is the better of those 2 options because they are easier to replace if they don't work out.
I'm getting too old for this... 

[Lt. Dan]

Thanks Bill, I'm sitting on my patio drinking my second cup of coffee. So maybe I'm better than yesterday. I didn't drink but one cup yesterday, you see I usually drink about 8 cups of coffee a day.

Good luck finding a replacement.

[Matchstickshooter]

  My wife and I had our second Covid boosters on Sunday, and still getting over it.

[Sqrl Klr]

Mah mouf ib numb!  An ah ain’t got no teef!  Day pullt em oud!

I am officially a Codger now.  Maybe even a Geezer!  My teeth began disappearing back when I was in my twenties.  Bad judgement and the Marquis of Queensbury accounted for quite a few of them.  Once I learned to hold my liquor I stopped losing so many.  Despite the odd motorcycle accident and the infrequent occasion of fisticuffs I tenaciously hung on to my last dozen until just recently.  The dentist came for them today.  I’ll be on a liquid diet for a while (BEER!). I know dentures will be an annoyance but anything will be better than the nagging pain and frequent infections that I’ve been dealing with for the last few years.

Looking forward to having a real smile again though.  When you are 6’6”, weigh 300 lbs, and were plenty ugly to start with a bunch of missing teeth don’t make you look any prettier.

I’m taking tomorrow off to recover.  Got some good drugs from the saw bones.  I’m gonna lay around the shanty and get a good buzz on!

Makes me wonder how a big a man has to be before other idiots leave him alone. Always has to be some idiot who picks a fight with a big man out of his insecurity trying to prove himself a real man I guess. Hope you have a fast recovery. I'm sure you'll be ejecting your dentures out at people for giggles in no time.

[Matchstickshooter]

  Well, Carter, at least you don't have to worry about ice fishing....
 Had an Uncle that had some brand new uppers, and a buddy invited him to go ice fishing out on the lake.
        (it was in January, in Vermont)
   Cut a good sized hole in the ice to fish from.
Anyway,  my Uncle sneezed, and the dentures went down the hole!

get well soon!

[Sqrl Klr]

[Blowpipe Sam]

Thanks folks.  It’s a sobering moment.

I am the architect of my own misfortune.  I’d have a few more teeth in my fool mouth if I could have kept it shut!

My biggest problem has been that with my missing teeth I’m kind of scary looking.  In my job as a park ranger this is not helpful.

[Madd Hatter]

Looks like he's having a heart attack!

[Matchstickshooter]

 

[Jshooter71]

Good morning GTA! Happy Wednesday! Got in from work last night at 2330, showered and probably fell asleep around midnight-30. Back up at 0615. I would’ve slept in, but I have to meet another tech at 0730. I’ve got time for just one coffee, I’ll fill my big cup on the road.

Dan, I pray you get to feeling better today.

[Blowpipe Sam]

Mornin y’all.  Working the late patrol shift tonight.  Both sides of my face are swollen from the extractions and I look truly bizarre!  No pain, just some annoying irritation.  Grits and eggs for breakfast!  I’ll emphasize the patrol portion of my duties today and try and take it easy.

[Sqrl Klr]

I bet he put on one heck of a show pitching a fit over his new expensive teeth going down the lake! Did he ever get them back once it warmed up?

[avator]

LMBO... I soooo want to catch a fish wearing those teeth.