I have two dental appointment today. The first one is with an endodontist and it is at 7am. Is that ridiculous or what? You want to know how ridiculous it is? I got a call yesterday morning at 7ish, from their office, reminding me of my 7am appointment today. Who does that? I called them back to confirm and she asked me if everything was good and I said, no, I have a 7 o’clock appointment and she told me since all my paperwork was done, I could come in at 7:10. What a relief.

The next appointment is to patch up the work of the first appointment, plus replace a temporary crown with a permanent one. I crashed after Chequamegon and a couple of my back teeth didn’t like the impact much more than my ribs.

I try to avoid going to the dentist this time of the year. I think that it is a very easy way to get sick. People make dental appointments weeks out and don’t want to skip them if the just feel a little under the weather. Then I’m sitting there with people sticking their hands in my mouth with all these germs floating around. I’m starting to sound a little like Howard Hughes here.

It is perplexing, this endodontist thing. I have a very good endodontist and a very good dentist. But, they have both had their chances with this one tooth, and it is still not right. It seems like it wouldn’t be that hard to find the roots in a tooth with today’s modern technologies. I’m sort of hoping that I have a low grad infection that might explain why I feel so run down all the time, but don’t plan on taking any antibiotics anytime in the next month. We’ll see.

It got cold and blustery out. The wind is supposed to blow nearly 50 mph today some. Pretty terrible conditions for riding bikes. There were thunderstorms and hail last night. Pretty strange weather for the week before Christmas.

It snowed last night and now is super windy. Bromont likes the snow so much he will hardly play with Trudi. He just runs around like crazy. I think it is because he likes it up in Wisconsin so much and it reminds him of that.

Since there are some people out there that are thinking today is the last day of Earth, then this would be my last blog post. I’m not going with it and I think that most Mayan’s aren’t thinking that way either.

It is the winter solstice today, so winter is officially here. I shoveled snow for the first time of the year yesterday, so I guess that was appropriate. I think my lower back forgot how heavy these early snows can be.

I hope it isn’t the last day of the Earth because if it is, that means that I rode an ergometer inside the last time I did anything that resembled riding a bicycle. I hate riding inside, so that is a depressing thought. That being said, I did do alright on the ergometer. Normally, the time ticks by super slowly when I’m riding inside. After 15 minutes it seems like an hour. Yesterday, I rented the new movie Total Recall, and then got on the ergometer. I rode around 280 watts for exactly an hour and it went by pretty quickly. I hate sweating that much. My ears clog up with water if I ride much more.

I got a late call from Brian and had to head over to Lawrence, once again, for some team photos. It was pretty quick, but we stayed and ate dinner afterward.

I spend some of the afternoon doing some drywall work at Adam’s. We’re gonna start laying tile this morning. It might take a little longer than normal because we’re heating the floor and it makes it a little tricky to get the thinset uniform height when you trowel over the electric mat. But, it’s not all that big of a bathroom and the shower should go pretty quickly.

The roads were crazy slick yesterday. Solid ice early and then again after the sun set. Lots and lots of fender benders. Guess that is what happens with the first snow storm of the season. It was very slippy (British fro slippery) though.

I’m going to try to get out and ride outside today if we get done early enough. It is supposed to be nearly 40, so the roads will probably clear by mid afternoon. Especially the ones outside of town that were plowed good yesterday. If not, I guess I can ride once more inside. Or maybe it will all be over sometime today and I’m done with riding. It’s all good no matter what happens.

After the team photos, we messed around on the climbing wall some. I just wanted to see if my should would fall off or not.

Adam covered the shower area with this sealing stuff. This thing is never, ever going to leak.