Exercise is great but exercise your choppers too

[austin_dern]

Jumping a little ahead, for convenience's sake, I got my teeth examined, X-rayed, and polished. By the professional dentist, understand, not just anyone anywhere.

Not much different to report from last time, though. My extreme good luck in health continues, with no sign of trouble among my teeth and even my gums looking like they're not receding importantly. They tried an ultrasonic device for cleaning some spots of my teeth and that was a novel experience. Not a bad one, understand. Just a different sort of vibration from any I'm used to. The cold water used along with this confirmed I don't have any particularly sensitive spots in my teeth or my gums, good news that will inspire bunnyhugger to kick my shins for being so good at teeth.

My tooth-grinding continues, though. Not because it's made my gums recede appreciably since half a year ago, but I guess they had it in my file and were asking about its progress. I couldn't swear I'd noticed it in my sleep, but bunny_hugger has and I passed that on. They're going to check with my insurance and see whether they'll cover getting a mouth guard and all to say what it'll cost me, besides a couple hours off for measurement and fitting appointments.

The hygienist told me she'd found a couple times she'd taken them out overnight. I think this is extremely likely for me since I'm an active sleeper doing a lot of squirming around. She thinks it's likely I'd lose the impulse to take it out after a couple weeks. bunnyhugger had a different experience herself. But maybe I'll be good about this.

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And in pictures, back to the 4th of July and the same fireworks pictures several times over:

A couple lanterns being let go at once.

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And here's a nice sparkler shower with a telephone pole coming out its center.

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Here we go. Some other town's fireworks plus a couple lanterns in the sky.

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And now downtown has its show starting. Or maybe the ball park. Hard to be sure.

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But between the city's fireworks and individuals doing their own shows you can see how smokey it gets here in early July.

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I believe this is two fireworks shows photographed at once but it's hard to be sure, at this remove.

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Trivia: Telephones of the 1880s were extremely vulnerable to background electrical interference, both from the weather and from the electric light and electric trolley services also stringing wires around cities, to the point of being unusable when a trolley car switched tracks or a city electric light sputtered. Source: Telephone: The First Hundred Years, John Brooks.

Currently Reading: Slime: A Natural History, Susanne Wedlich. Translator Ayça Türkoğlu.