More Bullshit

 

I forgot to mention--I think--that when I went to the dentist and mentioned the phantom smell, he's like "Sometimes a tonsil stone can cause that, let me take a look..."

And he does, and says, "Oh, you don't have your tonsils."

I say, "Uhhhhh, I never got them removed."

He's confused by that, but doesn't say much more, just moved on to the tooth.

I came home and called my mom. Ask her if I got my tonsils out. She's like "I don't remember. I don't think so."

I call my older brother. "Did we ever get our tonsils out?" He's like No.

I'm really confused at this point. I start typing in shit about tonsils falling out, and it CAN happen but it's not too common. Then I think, after seeing that tonsils are there primarily to catch infections, and they deal with the immune system...I google "lupus" and "tonsils", and lo and behold, what's not uncommon is for lupus to cause tonsil abnormalities.

Super. I also didn't mention that I got big time sick two weeks ago--like, sore throat and massive phlegm. I felt tired and weak. I took a covid test, that was negative, but I've basically had a runny nose for the last 10 years--it's worse when I eat--and I wonder if this is all tied together somehow.

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Am wrapping up the cover thing on the FOC antho. Should have both covers done this week.

Then off to a con at the end of the week. Looking forward to it, but a complication is that a buddy's signing is down the road on Saturday AND the guy running it wants to talk to me about doing a signing for my book's release later in the year.

But I don't usually leave cons once I'm there. To further complicate matter, there's a Fuddruckers not that far from that signing, further pushing me to head to it...

 

 

 

Doings

 How 80's is that picture above? Man...

Was a weird week and a half. Was thinking about going to the beach Sunday night cuz the Malf was gonna be down there on Saturday, but then he got the flu along with one of his daughters.

(I thought I mentioned this, but I don't seem to have...that it turns out that Malf rented the house next to my wife's family's beach house...without knowing that...it's like the Matrix is breaking down right in front of me)

So I put going down off--he ended up getting better and they went down Sunday. I headed down Monday night and surprised the wife. I took my work laptop even though I had scheduled off Tuesday and Thursday. I knew I'd prolly be needed.

We didn't hang out much--I think his wife prolly wanted him to stay with his family, but he came over and hung out at the firepit for a while, had some drinks.

Taking the dogs down to the beach is always a hassle. Not really any way to leave them home.

We went out and ate at the places I like. Went to the pool once, and down to the boardwalk. I went a bit nuts on the frozen custard cuz I was craving it.

It was nice, but to be honest, I don't sleep great down there and my stomach always gets freaky. I ended up coming home Wednesday night, and I'm actually working right now. Why burn the PTO for no good reason?

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My tooth continues to hurt. I go back next week for the check--gonna ask 'em when this should stop. It's not SUPER painful, but it's a dull ache that after a while accumulates to be pretty irritating.

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Closing in on the final for the FOC book. And trying something different--we're also gonna put out an audiobook on this one, and at the same time as the print ones. It's costing me a pretty penny, but I hear there's money in audio so we'll see.

This book is costing me more than the H'ween one, which was not my intention. 

Work continues on the other cover. It's a battle, as usual, but he always turns in amazing stuff so hopefully it'll be worth it.

Check out this shower--wish I had a house big enough I could get one.

And while the movie's pretty mediocre, this is a pretty great picture. Don't know who that artist is, but he's pretty talented.

 

 

 

Life's A Beach

 

Finally got to go down to the beach for a weekend with the wife. We took the dogs, which always adds complications--ya gotta take 'em for walks a couple of times a day since the yard isn't fenced in.

It was really just an attempt to relax, but it's hard because I'm used to sleeping in a waterbed--yes, I still sleep in one. That means I usually don't sleep great down there, plus the wife and dogs are up before me so sometimes they wake me up.

We hit the restaurants I like the most, which is always cool. Hit some stores. Went down to the boardwalk and walked around. Weather was great.

I took my work laptop because there were some things I needed to do.

Well...that's the thing. I had this moment when I'm working--it was like 2am so the wife was in bed--where I thought...This was the shit my mom used to complain about with my dad. How he was always working late, going in to do stuff when they needed him to.

I know I don't HAVE to do this work. I could wait until Monday morning, but then everybody else is waiting on me, plus things would be running slower since everyone is in the system doing stuff.

In my mind, it's just better and more efficient to get it done fastest and earliest it can be.

But yeah, I guess workaholic is a bit of a thing in my family. 

On the way back we stopped at my mom's cuz one of my sisters was in town. She's a nurse, so there's a lot of talk about how we should be checking heart shit and whatnot. Heart stuff runs in our family.

Also got out to see the new Bad Boys--better than I expected since #2 was atrocious and #3 was so so.

Then last night saw The Watchers. Not sure what the hate is about. It's not great, but if it were on Netflix you'd probably be like "That was okay." Directed well, it just doesn't bring anything new to the table.

Having to dodge that goddamn new Deadpool and Alien trailer. Just come out, movies, so I can stop this bullshit.

 

 

 

Suck Week

 

This ought to be called The Dental Blog at this point. I've now been to a dentist five times in the last two weeks. 

I'd forgotten that I'd made plans to go to the other dentist about the other issue--it's on the opposite side of my mouth as the pulled tooth, but my mouth's been hurting all week so I thought about canceling. I called them to confirm--we're only doing X-rays, right?

Cuz I didn't want them poking around or anything--basically, I need a "retreatment", meaning they're going to do a second root canal. There's some infection or something--the dentist looked at the X-rays and says it's gonna be tough--because it's the farthest-back tooth, it's hard to get to where they need.

If this doesn't work, the only option is to pull that tooth. I told him, I don't have the kind of money where I can spend $2800 to get a tooth pulled every other month.

So we're gonna try the retreatment and hope.

Meanwhile, my mouth is hurting, not just from the pulled tooth, but from some of the teeth near it. It's weird. I've had to take a lot of ibuprofen.

Got out briefly for Malf's local book signing. Stewie was there. It was fun, pretty funny event. The host was funny but he dropped a lot of spoilers since he'd just read the book. 

I had to leave that early cuz I told the kid I'd take him to see the new Bad Boys, since the wife and I are ditching him for the weekend to go to the beach. The movie's fun. Better than 3, which I wasn't a fan of, though it was WAY better than part 2.

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I started trying to get back to work on that Halloween short I shot last year. It's so fucking complicated for something that's gonna be like 5 minutes long, and it's not even that good so I'm a little frustrated. My dogs really fucked me on some of the cool shots I wanted to get.

And the final shot that contains the CG element...I have no idea how to make that happen. My brother did a little test that was okay, but not what I wanted.

So I dunno.

Fuck it. 

I really wanna finish these things this year, but here we are past the halfway mark of the year and I've done next to nothing on them:

• The scarecrow book I've been working on for many years
• T1/T2 blu ray
• The exorcism script I've been working on
• The Xmas script I've been working on
  

Then I prolly ought to start working on the HH 25th anniv blu ray. And possibly the FOC1 blu ray that I never made. At least then maybe I'd have reason to get a table at a con, though I fucking hate manning those things. (and Zig doesn't come out to cons too often so I'd have--gasp--stay at my table most of the time)