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Reason #487 Why I Love Lexington

This weekend was Oktoberfest, a fundraiser organized by Christ the King Catholic Church. Some genius at Christ the King arranged to have GREAT music at this two-day event. Allan and I went to see Erin McKeown and Alejandro Escovedo on Friday evening. The cool part? We live about two blocks from the church.

The other cool part? I was able to speak with both artists after their shows. Both were very gracious and down to earth, and I scored us some autographed CDs.

I took nearly two hundred photos, and this is the only one I've processed so far. When I get more of them up on Flickr, I'll include a link to the photosets.

UPDATE: Here are a few photos of Erin McKeown and Alejandro Escovedo.

On A Mission

Fustercluck
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We were heading for Trader Joe's, but decided to stop in at The Party Store in Newport. The place was closed because their power was out. And then all hell broke loose.

Edit:   I'm going to reiterate a comment I made: The rain wasn't the problem! We were glad to see it after so many weeks of drought.

No, it was the traffic and the blown out stoplights and the other people not knowing how to drive...

Mould

Mould, originally uploaded by Alison.

This geeky-cool piece of plastic now keeps me from clenching my teeth into oblivion, as well as from pushing my front teeth out with my tongue.

Yeah, remember that? From before?

So now I get to wear this 24/7 for at least a week, then we'll see. The root canal verdict will fall on Monday, when I see the dentist again.

This afternoon I had another trigger point massage. I don't know what she did to me, but it's not even 8 pm and I am falling asl

Today Is National Punctuation Day!

Hooray!

Yellow Bike — Now With Map!

Yellow Bike -- Now With Map!, originally uploaded by Alison.

The city of Lexington has had some problems with its fleet of yellow bikes, namely that the things were being ridden and left outside the downtown perimeter. (By the way, the author of that article, Rich Copley of the Lexington Herald-Leader, and reader of this blog, was kind enough to introduce himself to Allan and me yesterday at the Festival Latino de Lexington — Thanks, Rich! It was very cool to meet you!)

I don't know if the maps have always been a part of the bikes, but I like to imagine that they haven't been. In any case, the bikes are still being taken outside of the downtown area. Allan and I saw one near the corner of S. Ashland and Euclid, which made us chuckle.

That corner is not downtown, but it's not New Circle Road, either.

I'll See You Your Chocolate, And I'll Raise You A Fish Lady.

Well, the debate on chocolate rages on. Some of you are with me, some of you are against me. There are one or two abstentionists. (I think I may have just made up a word.)

While we all think of Chocolate, our cat FHJones (see Sofa King below) is thinking of fish. This evening, he started groveling while I deveined the shrimp I planned to grill. He continued as I prepared the walleye pike.

After dinner (I had washed my hands several times, mind you) he "loved on me" as they say here in Kentucky. And I filmed him doing it with a tiny digital camcorder that we found at Jo Ann's house.

If you're interested in watching 2 minutes and 13 seconds of kitty love, here's the video.

The Fish Lady
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Sofa King Cute

Sofa King..., originally uploaded by Alison.

I love FH Jones. Also, he matches the couch.

Who Is Right?

Allan says there's no such thing as too much chocolate.

I say there is. And I love chocolate, as long is it as dark and high-quality.

Our proverbial bone of contention is Ben & Jerry's Lighten Up Chocolate Fudge Brownie frozen "yogurt."

The first time I tasted it, it overwhelmed me. Allan is eating it now, and offered me some. I declined at first, citing the "too much chocolate" argument. And I said I was going to blog about it. However, I just ate a spoonful of the Ben & Jerry's, and it didn't have the same effect.

So maybe my theory is bunk. But I will maintain that sometimes there's just too much chocolate.

Well, Whatever.

When I first started videoblogging back in early 2005, there was no YouTube. Audioblog (now Hipcast) started offering a video service, and I adopted it.

You recorded directly from your webcam and Audioblog put it on Typepad for you. At the time, I was too stupid (or lazy) to record from my webcam to my hard drive, so all my early videos are on Hipcast (and only Hipcast) now.

And I didn't pay the bill this past month. It was only 4.95, but YouTube and Dailymotion are free. And you know what? Who cares? So part of this blog will be lost. Whatever.

One of these days I'll do another videoblog post. One of these days.

There's No Way I Can Make This Funny

Remember the tooth I was all worried about?

I haven't written about it much since then, but I saw the dentist the morning Jo Ann died (and that was weird, because I had a feeling things weren't right. And they weren't.), and then a week later. So on August 15th, I had a temporary crown put on the tooth I've been blogging about for what, four months?

Last week I had an appointment to have the porcelain crown put on what's left of my tooth. I told the dentist that I was still having some sensitivity, and she took a look.

Guess what?

I'd ground a hole in the temporary crown!

Alrighty then! I don't know if I grind my teeth in my sleep, but I now realize that I clench them pretty much all day, every day. If I had a crown put on now, I'd just end up needing a root canal (which may be the case, but my dentist is being very conservative. I lurve her.).

The verdict? I need a bite guard. Once it's made, I will have to wear it as much as possible for at least a month. In the meantime, I need trigger point massage. As the dentist said, "this isn't feel-good massage." When I clench my teeth, the muscles in my head, neck, and upper back react. And the more those muscles are stressed, the more I clench my teeth.

I had my first massage on Tuesday morning. It didn't hurt, but it did wear me out, both physically and emotionally.

I took this photo after lunch that day, right before I crashed for a 20-minute power nap.

Please click on the photo; there are lots of notes on Flickr that don't show up here. And no, that's not a mole on my arm. Anyway, ever since my dentist appointment last week, I've been more aware of my jaws, teeth, and tongue. And wow, the stuff I am doing with all of that can't be good.

In a couple of months, we'll know if my tooth needs a root canal before putting the porcelain crown on it.

Either way, I'm okay with it. I feel like I'm being cared for by my dentist*.

*No, Allan is not my dentist.