Oh, one thing that from WEEKS ago that I wanted to mention

So, several weeks back, I was at my parents' house for dinner, and my sister phoned, and we were talking and all, and the subject came up of what would happen if Jesus came back to Earth right now, and showed up. What would people do?

My sister said, "Middle Eastern male, from Gaza, wearing weird clothes, talking about overthrowing the government and the end of the world, and not in English? He's in Gitmo."

And silence came across the room, as we realized just how right she was.

Seriously. If Jesus came back, is there ANY way he wouldn't end up in Guantamo?

My cousin's a pretty darned good dentist

So, I had a tooth cleaning, from my uncle, yesterday. I mentioned that I'd had some pain in the gums next to the tooth where he'd done the root canal, and he took a look at it, and said that it looked like the filling was chipping, and scheduled me for an appointment with my cousin Todd this morning. Todd graduated from Tufts just a few months ago, and is now in practice with his father and our grandfather.

So, he took a careful look at the tooth, and did some drilling and gentle probing, and eventually found a tiny-but-very-sharp chip of SOMETHING that was jammed right in the gum, totally hidden from view, and looking exactly like part of the tooth, and it felt MUCH better once he pulled that out. And then he repaired the filling and got that all nice and working, too.

I'm mainly posting this because I can't get over just how much pain I'm not in. I mean, I really do stop registering pain after a while, and now it's gone, and it's such a relief. Ongoing pain just wears you down and I'm usually in quite a bit of it. As, I suspect, most people are. But there's a big source of pain fixed.