The Root of the Problem, Gaming Activities, State Election

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Late last week I had a bit of a toothache, my immediate prognosis being that it was one of twenty-seven plus-year amalgam fillings on its way out. No problem, I book an appointment at the dentist for a couple of week's time. By Sunday I'm discovering that generous amounts of ibuprofen, codeine and cognac is necessary to relieve the symptoms and yesterday I'm down at the local dental clinic. Turns out that a lower right molar (number 30, apparently) has suffered a crack - how is a mystery - which naturally enough became infected, and thus requiring root canal therapy. The dentistry itself wasn't much a problem, but sweet lord, the symptoms are amazingly painful; I'm downing painkillers like a kid with a sweet tooth (to use a perhaps inappropriate metaphor).

Amongst all this however I ran a session of Mouse Guard/Warhammer on Thursday night, nearing the completion of the Death on the Reik. On Saturday there was some amusing discussion for GURPS Krononauts concerning an offer for time travellers in a documentary with references the the presentation from Terry Kelly of the Victorian Skeptics on the evidence of paranormal activity at the Unitarian Church. Sunday was a session of RuneQuest Prax, which involved the summoning of a volcanic eruption (pretty awesome). Yesterday I finished a review of Dragon Age, after playing Pendragon-Britannia, where my character managed to escape the clutches of the sidhe. I intend to do a review of Pendragon over the next few days as well.

We're having a state election in Victoria, although it hasn't attracted much media attention. I've been letterboxing for Labor canidate for Kew, Kate Jackson and will volunteer throughout polling day. I'll also be making a donation towards Maxine Morand, the Labor candidate for the ultra-marginal seat of Mount Waverly due to her work on the legalising of abortion in Victoria. The Coalition, for their part, have decided to preference Labor ahead of the Greens last which means that Labor isn't fighting on two fronts and the Greens will find it difficult to pick up the inner urban seats. I'm pleased that this also means that the Greens candidate for Richmond, Kathleen Maltzahn, is unlikely to be elected. Maltzahn is apparently a supporter of the "Swedish model" of prostitution law where the service is decriminalised from the supply side, but criminalised on the demand side. Sex workers in Sweden aren't very happy with the law, for economic and safety reasons and said candidate for Richmond has apparently not shown to two local meetings on the subject in the past week.

Comments

[stephbg.livejournal.com]

I haven't kept up with the research, but back when I used to know such things on a professional basis, the purest form of pain was delivered by running electrical current through metal braces on the teeth.

Sweet dreams. (I also hope you feel better soon.)

[strangedave.livejournal.com]

when I had a cracked tooth I was cheerily downing 90mg of codeine at a go. Dental problem can seriosusly fcking hurt.

[mr-figgy.livejournal.com]

There's actually a federal byelection in my riding. It's been a Liberal Party stronghold for about two decades, but the guy largely responsible for that decided to become mayor instead. Conservative Party could grab the seat with their celebrity candidate, Julian Fantino, unless it turns out all along that the giant bloc of retirees votes for the party rather than the person.

[kimeros.livejournal.com]

Yeah, tooth pain is crazy making :(

I found that beer was actually quite good for pain relief.

[severina-242.livejournal.com]

Oh your teeth Lev!

You may well be a tooth grinder, hence the crack - mine are quite cracked due to grinding. Don't worry, after root canal, you won't feel too much. Be careful not to OD on the pain killers though, it can make you very sick.

[severina-242.livejournal.com]

Actually, if you're still in the habit of crunching up cooked bones, I'd seriously reconsider doing it anymore - we're not equipped properly for that....

[abomvubuso.livejournal.com]

You should really consider replacing all those amalgam fillings with ceramics.

Btw have you tried the new StarCraft II?