Compared to how things have been going lately, things... haven't changed much, really. I'm still on night shift at work and it looks like I will be for another couple of weeks; September at the earliest. There's a lot going on right now and things aren't in place yet. That's about all I'm in a positin to talk about, and all I really know. Everything involved in that happens during the day, and I work a good twelve hours after all of that (which is also after everybody clocks out for the day and goes to bed). So there isn't …

I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that I'd had some emergency dental surgery that involved some reconstructive work. And I was in the hospital a few weeks after that (which I haven't written about but might later) for something unrelated. Another thing I didn't write about was what happened after I got out of the hospital. But let's take those in order.

For starters, a few days ago as I write this I went back in for x-rays to see how my jaw is healing. The bone graft the surgeon did looks pretty good but it's not fully consolidated …