I’ve spent the past several days regaining jaw mobility, spending 15 minutes cleaning my mouth after every meal, and casually watching for signs of dry socket. Symptoms of dry socket after wisdom tooth extraction are pain, “ranging from ‘dull’ to moderate to severe” and a foul mouth odor. How pleasantly helpful. So what does it mean when I wake up at 03:30 every night with atrocious jaw pain and stinky breath? Is this because I accidentally pulled on a stitch (the threads were long enough) when I gnashed my teeth in a bad dream, or because I have dry socket? Is the bad breath because I’ve been asleep for several…

So I’m sitting on this GMail account (common nickname dot last name at gmail.com), and damn if I know what to do with it. I mean, I’ve got two nice-sized IMAP accounts. I’ve got up to four hundred 50 MB POP3 accounts at irrsinn dot net. I’ve got webmail access at all of the above. And now I have GMail. I don’t need another secret/personal account that I carefully distribute to keep away the spammers. See above about those four hundred POP3 accounts at this here domain. I have, and can make, sufficient e-mail addresses related to this site. I have junk mail accounts. I have accounts that only receive…

So a long, long time (two years?) ago I made a little teeny ASP app to allow me to write and post my little book reviews. Copy/paste, and you’ve also got the apps for the old Mandrake and newer Gentoo sections of the site. However, because these are home-brewed things, they don’t come with any frills, like RSS feeds. So this weekend, I found an ASP class to do it for me. Following the demo (with some tweaks, described below), with a single, minor change to the class itself (described below), I now have RSS 1.0 syndication for the (rarely-updated, admittedly) Gentoo and Book Review areas. I don’t know how…

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So my mother has an acquaintance, who I shall call Mrs. M. Mrs. M’s husband works or used to work with the Old Man. She has a bad-ass kid that my mother occasionally lets come over and fight with and beat-up on Ali. Now, my mother has her own issues with Mrs. M that seem to stem from a general xenophobia I’ve noticed on my mother’s part. But her issues are not mine. I think she’s a nice woman, and that her kid may need a bit more structure in his life before he gets hit with an ADHD diagnosis and drugs in the coming years. But that’s neither here…