4.229 lectern, tooth, managing

Tuesday 07/18/2023

Did the gym round. Then did a lot with the auditorium lectern. Here’s the deal: I had proposed replacing it. I went to a lot of trouble to do shopping, present the situation to the Ev.Comm. yesterday. This morning I find an email from Bert who is just back from vacation and reading his email apparently. He proposed a whole complicated thing about converting the old lectern to have locking casters. He didn’t send that just to me, oh hell no. He sent it to the AV team and several others.

So I went down and photographed the lectern, and wrote an email explaining why changing to locking casters wouldn’t work (the locks would be out of reach under the skirt of the lectern base). A plain, factual unemotional email.

Then I went ahead and did something I’ve been meaning to do. The lectern had a little brass gooseneck lamp which caused two issues. One, it was situated such that there wasn’t room to put a laptop on the lectern and open it. Two, it needed a power cord plugged into the stage, which was a tripping hazard and constant nuisance. So I had already ordered a nice battery operated gooseneck clip-on lamp which came yesterday. Today I disassembled the lectern, removed the ugly little brass job, and clipped on the new one. Presto, no more power cord to make presenters trip, and no obstacle blocking their laptops.

Wrote an email about that, also, with pictures. Very factual and unemotional, this is what I’ve done, isn’t it nice.

All that before 10:30. Then the writers meeting, although of course I hadn’t written anything.

At lunch, the left molar crown popped off. This was the one that came off and was reglued back on day 4.056. The dentist had said it probably would, but as the months went by I was feeling pretty confident. Nope. I got an appointment for 2:30 (hah, sounds like a bad dentist joke). He offered to try to glue it again, but admitted it wouldn’t stay as long.

The only real alternatives are, A, to get a partial made. I used a partial for a couple of years, a decade ago, and hated it and abandoned it. Or, B, an implant. The process of getting an implant would be, one, dental surgery to extract the roots of that tooth and implant some bone material; two, 4-6 months of healing time; three, surgery to implant the post to support the new tooth; four, build a new tooth. Or, C, he could just do a filling to close up the top of the truncated root so it wouldn’t decay, and try how it goes with even less chewing surface on the left. I opted for C.

In all the excitement I forgot to attend a talk at 4pm which I really wanted to hear, the first of seven staff lectures on CH health care and options. I expect I can pick up the zoom recording soon.

Later I wrote an email to several people at FOPAL re the upcoming Vintage Computer Fest.