After being told on Monday that I could maybe see the dentist at the end of September, I tried a different tactic of calling at half past eight this morning. I struck lucky and got the nice receptionist, and fixed an appointment at ... half past eleven. Do these people have no sense of comic irony?
Anyhoo, despite it feeling as if I had an asteroid impact sized crater in my mouth, the talented Mr Weeks was able to patch up the gap in a matter of minutes for the bargain price of £15.90 - hurrah! Given my track record of breaking teeth at yearly intervals all I need to do now is be very wary of eating anything sticky or crunchy next August.
What else? I've discovered that I can run Defcon very nicely on my Macbook, and that there's also a linux client that I may well check out for the sheer geek value of playing networked games between two machines running non windows operating systems.
Bookwise, Evolution by Stephen Baxter was by turns fascinating, awe inspiring and frightening, and also very apposite given the news about the Yangtze dolphins today. Mass extinction events in the near future are a very real possibility, and will have consequences for eco systems that we can't predict.
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