a trip to the dentist's
I went to the dentist's today and I have to go back next week. Just a little "pitting" in the left-side wisdom teeth. Nothing major. I'll have to get them drilled and filled and resealed. My dentist seems to know me as the guy he doesn't have to see very much. Before this, my last check-up was March '02. My upper wisdom tooth is a bit achy right now where he was poking around. I hope that goes away soon.
I got to meet Morag's new cat yesterday. He's a bit of a nutcase, but he's cute and seems harmless. I got him to play with me a bit, but he wasn't terribly interested otherwise. That's okay. I'm sure he has more interesting things to do with his time.
Also this weekend, my glorious new bed arrived and I spent most of Saturday (and the earliest parts of Sunday) at a LAN party. That was an interesting new experience. I've decided I don't like Tribes. I also took out my frustration with Starcraft on Dan and Brian in a rather merciless two-on-one game. I hadn't played Starcraft in ages, and I'm pretty good against the computer, but I'd never actually played against humans before. I'd lost three rounds to pretty predictable ( if I'd ever thought about it) tactics, my major failing being that I'm slow to build. The computer will patiently wait for you to build an army of unstoppable might, but people won't. Me, I like to happily churn things out at a reasonable pace, when I think it might be nice to have them. I don't like it when somebody sends a few dozen hydralisks after me. I got some small satisfaction in the end with my fleet of Protoss carriers, but I suppose, when you're up against players who hadn't even seen a Protoss carrier before, that's just a little bit mean.
My only wholly satisfying victory was in Moonbase Commander. That was mostly due to the fact that Eric (despite his fetishistic penchant for viruses) wasted too much time taking out Sam whilst I was lovingly hoarding energy.