Their 2nd meeting went already much better than the 1st one.
Not-my-dog meets my-dog
Dealing with the cold
New experiences
Byron has been meeting other dogs, met the Tartine (bakery) croissant lady, has gone to Qualipet, has been getting crate-trained by Reenpig, is totally obsessed by Tolstoy, is discovering the joys of eating grass and flower buds, and has had his first stick. Making excellent puppy progress. He’s charmed the socks off everyone he’s met. We’re getting there house training him. He’s pretty consistent for wees, but still has the occasional 💩 incidents if we’re not really paying close attention.
His personality is starting to show. If things carry on, he’s going to be a giant cuddle bug goofball.
Meet Byron
So far, we have achieved weeage, poopage, drinkage and cat-butt sniffage. All very promising signs.
Also, this proves that he’s one of our pets.
2022 can fuck itself right off too.
So following on from 2021, 2022 was rather shit. While there were moments of fun, it seems that most if not all of them were overshadowed by drama, illness, accidents and general fuckery. At times, I thought I was losing my career, my family and my mental health. I can only thank my wifey, my friends, my colleagues and my Not-my-dogs for keeping afloat when it felt I was sinking. I wish I could believe that 2023 will be better, but my general cynicism just hopes it won’t be more of the same, if not worse.
Well that would explain the discomfort
That’s one f’n big cavity.
Never have I appreciated music as much as I have in the past hour. I sat in the chair, put my headphones on, closed my eyes and concentrated on my breathing and the music. And then it was done. Tooth came out in one piece, no issues. Last time I had a major dental issue was when I got my wisdom teeth removed, and that twenty-plus years ago.
Now I’m on a soft diet for 3-4 days and then I get the stitches removed on Jan 3rd.
Busy kitchen elf
It might not be Christmas in the UK, but there are sausage rolls (caramelised onions or wholegrain mustard), scotch eggs (with runny yolk) and a giant pork pie. The oldies are pleased.
Words of wisdom from Misery Bear
Early Christmas gift
I have a gap between my back two molars that’s been getting wider over the last few years. I had a checkup last year when we were in Leicester and it was fine, but I should start using a sensitive toothpaste to avoid hot/cold pain.
Over the course of this year, the gap has been getting wider and food has been getting stuck in there. Flossing and brushing seemed OK, but last week something changed and pain flared up like a mofo. I thought, or hoped, it was just a really stubborn bit of something stuck on the gumline. No joy. Its been getting worse, with really fun pain spikes. A visit to the dentist revealed a massive fuck-off cavity on my back molar, and a smaller one on the molar next to it. The dentist is amazed that it went this bad this quickly apparently.
So my options are now a 3k chf root canal, that’s not guaranteed to save the tooth, or having it pulled (for only 400chf). I also need to get the 2nd cavity sorted as well, but that one can wait a bit.
On boxing day, I’m getting the tooth pulled, then having the stitches removed after new years, then the cavity fixed late January. Joy.
Merry f’n Christmas.
Well that’s one restaurant off the list
Fuming. We ordered 300chf worth of food from Toriko – a Japanese restaurant we normally really like. We’ve eaten there many times in the past, and always enjoyed it.
Except this time, it took 2h for the food to be delivered. We ordered at 1740. Order was ready for delivery at 1845. Arrived 1935. Delivery guy got lost and couldn’t find the place, even though everyone else can. Then bitched at us with a what-do-you-want-me-to-do attitude.
This was Katy’s birthday dinner. Hot food was cold. Tempura was inedible. Portions that were normally generous were half-sized. Grilled eel was missing sauce. Took 30m to reach a human being on the phone.
Then was only offered 10% refund tonight – or 50% off next order. Given our experience tonight, the next order will be at half-past never on the night of the go-fuck-yourself.
For that price and that length of time, I could have made it myself and enjoyed it significantly more.
So, Google, remove stars from toriko. It’s overpriced, can do good food, but service is shit.