I've been at work half an hour.

Is this virtuous, or stupid? I've already had my semi-crisis (interrupted yesterday by multiple crises) interrupted by another crisis.

This one is a very dumb one. A table is empty. It had data in the disk we shipped out. Either the access program is screwed up or (since that version has worked for me locally) the database is. If it is, since the one we shipped out was good, the load was misperformed.

Argh.

That was not fun, and I hate my teeth.

I just had a dental appointment. Three cavities: two on the upper left, one on the lower left, all to be dealt with in this appointment. An hour and a quarter from arrival to finish.

The left side of my mouth droops just a bit (darned anesthetic), my left cheek is lightly flushed, and the fillings are done. The one on the lower part was first and apparently deep; when she went to drill the first upper one, my hand went up immediately (their signal for 'stop that!') because I felt it way too much, as a sharp sting, on first contact.

Yes, indeedy, the anesthetic for the upper wore off. Which means that instead of three jabs in three locations, I got five jabs in four locations (as she extended the reach of the upper anesthetic and renewed it). Just ducky.

Other than that it went pretty well, till I was getting up to leave and she said she hoped the lower one didn't end up needing a root canal.

Yeah, apparently it was very deep. Thanks for the cheery thought, ma'am - I hope it doesn't too.

All in all, not a fun day. I signed out till 1 pm so I'm home to have some soup (safer than something I have to chew, given I still can't entirely feel my cheek).

Stupid teeth.

Oh, and for the record?

My eye wasn't numbed - but my ear was.

How do I know?

Well...have you ever felt parts of your ear coming off of anesthetic?

I believe the proper term is "stupid".

Or something of the sort. You scheduled a five-day task to begin on Friday and end on Tuesday, such that to get our five days we would have to work the weekend. When we complained, you scheduled it to begin on Friday and end on Tuesday, with only three days of work.

What were you thinking? Or were you? It's not getting done today, anyway, we're trying, but we're having problems.

Early night.

I can feel the left side of my face again. With three fillings, one fairly deep, all toward the back, my gums and cheek and lips are complaining they were abused. The teeth seem to be fine, the adjacent flesh will stop complaining eventually, I know.

I'm tired; my sinuses are stuffed up; my mouth aches. So, however silly going to bed this early makes me feel - definitely sleep time.

Hey, I can feel my face, and my ear is not pins-and-prickles, and my mouth's not droopy. That's better.