Monthly Archive for March, 2004

Managed to finally get to the dentist today, however it was claimed that my tooth is still infected meaning that the surgery can’t be done today. So work on removing plaque and a full workup began, the plan was do get the filling on the right hand side done. However because of the refurbishment many of the supplies where actually out and hence they had no white fillings left.

So now I have to come back in 2 weeks time, I have been given another course of antibiotics to take, though I did explain that I have not suffered any pain for more than a week, but no one seemed to care. I did however get a bill for £32 pounds.

Have been having issues with my new domain, in particular e-mail which is provided by dreamhost. My personal work e-mail account since friday has been having all sorts of problems. Had hoped to transfer my website over the weekend as well however that proved quite impossible. Hopefully mail will be okay tomorrow. Fortunately my fudonet hosting and e-mail is fine. Fortunately I know what the cause is because I just accessed my yahoo e-mail account which gets all of the dreamhost alerts.

Left this morning to get to my dentist appointment only to find out that my dentist was not well.
(I found out later that they did try to ring me and tell me that the appointment was cancelled, however I had already left home.) Fortunatley my tooth ache has gone away totally, the antibiotics must have cleared up the infection.

So I got my ass to work even though I didn’t get in till 11:45am.

Hmm, some one has been using my site to up their ranking in google, trying to sell the usual crap, gonna have to deal with upgrading MT this weekend, and perhaps disable comments or trackbacks until MT 3.0 comes out, have not really been bothered since most of the visitors to the site are people I know or are just casual browsers.

Couldn’t sleep last night had a killer toothache, eventaully dropped of to sleep around 5am. Which is not good, I decided at that point that I needed to rush to the dentist first thing in the morning, Of course the dentist surgury doesn’t open till 9:30 so I figured someone has to be there from 9 really, so I tried ringing to get an emergency appointment, luckly my plan worked. I was tol to be there for 9:45 which I managed no problem, however since the surgury is being renovated as well they where in a total state, managed to eventually see someone at about 11am.

After describing my symptoms and a quick examination the dentist couldn’t see anything wrong either. However she did say it’s probably an infection. So I had to get an X-Ray done, this meant haging around till atleast 12pm. Not a problem really, since the pain had sub-dued thanks to the pain killers I had around 2am. Once I got the X-Ray back, I was told my right wisdom tooth had totally decayed around the root, and my 1st Molar was also infected, not good. It’s amazing since I always thought my teeth where in relatively good shape since my teens, though I don’t know why I thought this since I had not been to a dentist since the winter of 2000.

I was presribed some antibiotics and told to keep taking the pain killers for a couple of days. Will need to have a root-canal op on the 1st Molar and the wisdom tooth may have to come out, though apparently I have to see a specialist for the Wisdom tooth. Sounds expensive either way so I best sort out mu Bupa cover in the next couple of days.

Had the first major delay on the trains today, had to get to Finsbury Park for around 7pm for Bowling Night. Got to Egham station to get the 18:06 train only to find that the last train to Waterloo was the 17:10 train, the 17:40 and subsequent trains got cancelled when a train broke down in the opposite direction. Was stranded there till 19:10, didn’t hit Waterloo till about 19:50.

Had a SW Trains rep at the platform who was trying to be helpful, even he couldn’t understand why turning a train around from Windsor took over an hour considering that 8 trains had got through to Windsor/Reading since the defective train had been towed down to Staines.

Well I started a new job today at thinkingsafe.com. It a online backup and recovery. My role will be to develop the cross platform capabilities. I’m quite excited about the role since I’m working with an old friend from university, Steve who I had lost touch with some 3 years ago, after he changed jobs.