wisdom removed

at 34 years of age, i've gone through what i should have endured over a decade ago--having my wisdom teeth extracted. the nitrous oxide deluge withdrew my concerns for the gnarly prying that the dentist was engaged in. i chose pink floyd as my music of choice for the endeavor. recovery was quick, as i didn't require the hard pharmaceuticals past day 1 and relied on ibuprophen for the week following. kids, remove your teeth in your teens. no sense in waiting til later on.

acupuncture

i have suffered from chronic lower back and hip alignment issues for well over a decade now. not fun.

there was never an event of injury which set things off, unless you count the sneeze on an early october morning in '94 that rendered be incapacitated and begun this series of lame pronunciations of mortality.

i've tried the chiropractor and yoga and core work and rubber balls and inversion boots and all have helped or hindered further to one degree or another. well this time, i've tried acupuncture. the session was relaxing and interesting. there were definitely some key points of 'ohhhn that really hit something.'

ther hour was over and i mindfully erected my weight back over the top of my frame, expecting magic to heal me, i was pleasantly greeted with even more discomfort than i had originally walking in the door of the therapist's office. however, time is more fickle than the changing trends of a high school in-crowd and as the day progressed, i noticed a subtle release in my lower lumbar which even awoke me in the night with a 'clearing' sensation.

now i am an eternal skeptical optimistic pragmatist, yet pushed to extremes of human condition i will try alternative practice that people i trust speak highly of. i must tell you, in the days which have followed the acupuncture, i have suffered from what i believe people call recovery.

now i am still experiencing a bit of tightness in my hips, but i can once again lace up my own shoes without looking like an 80-year old man. again, my cynical side says, 'ah, that could have happened as the days passed in any event,' yet i am confident that my current status of recovery was expedited by a series of tiny little needles injected at numerous points along my trunk and legs. at this juncture, i am a believer in the healing stimulation of this centuries old asian medicine. it is worth a shot, in my book.

clever bicycle video

free will vs. prescribed fate

i guess i am becoming an old man. this morning i was swilling coffee and munching on granola over the morning's news and all of a sudden a big chunk of tooth dislodged from the back of my mouth.
fantastic.
very classy. ironically I went to the dentist yesterday and had decided to set up an appointment to extract the set of wisdom teeth that one of which must have heard me and decided to taste freedom on its own this morning.
let me say this to the other three deep molars and 3/4 stump... go ahead, jump! if you want to vacate my mouth, i invite you to as it will save from my out of pocket expense and y'all ain't been nuthin' but trouble.

bus blogging

on the express bus headed south, despite nearing rush hour on a friday, traffic is modest.
busses are interesting public places. you can get a stong sense of your community demographic, the clothes that people wear, the language (or lack thereof) that we use, the way they interact & how group dynamic is altered due to the presence of certain personalities present, et cetera, et cetera.
on this particular bus, there are a wide range of ages present. no one is talking, yet a number of people are communicating--in similar fashion to this. the air is too cold for everyone. the lurching bus-sashay of the shifting gears and hard breaking stops is pronounced even further by the giant frame's response to the wear in the roadway.
ding. it's my stop.

dvd

the first dvd player I owned was not only second-hand, but it was an early generation, manufactured in 1996. that player made it to '06 before being riddled with old age and skips.
in '06, we bought a new dvd unit from the store. there started to be a few glitches about 6 months in. and in the past two months, a rash of consistent errors has plagued the machine.
it irks me, personally, that this machine is showing signs of failure in one-fifth the lifetime than it's predecessor did--yet, logic tells me to view this as an isolated incident and not to drag down the whole system with our single experience of product-performance malcontent. however, once I became vocal regarding these erred symptoms, a chorus of other similar voices chimed in and echoed a myriad of kindred problems with their dvd players as well.
perhaps we're all just homebodies who put too many miles on our units, or perhaps the failing machines are more a result of consumer-demand for cheaper electronics that just don't fit the bill for quality goods.

dncc

the democratic national committee convention will be held just down the road, in denver, this election year. this event will prove to be an historical milestone that will be referenced much like turning point hopeful leaders of the past, such as jfk, took their nominations and charged ahead full-force to the general election. excitement about the impending event is electrifying the dry colorado air.

red rocks

went to see yonder mtn string band last night at red rocks-- one of the greatest venues on the globe, in my opinion. the heat broke around 8:45pm as a light rain fell down upon the crowd. it was a fine night for music and enjoyment.