Tag: dentistry

I mean, the orcas seem to be doing okay, but if they have buddies, that’s fine.

Did not go to the office. Went to the dentist instead to have my thin layer of new gum tissue certified (no actual certificate received). Put off making any kind of decision on bridge (ugh) vs partial denture (ugh) vs nothing (ugh).

Watched (live-action TV): Leverage 5.15: Nate gets to be an unreliable narrator, but gets closure for his original motivation and exits Leverage in a much less self-destructive way than we expected, leaving our OT3 (as much as there could be an OT3 on TV in 2012) to start diverging the timeline. The End!

Read (manga): Kiss & White Lily for My Dearest Girl vol 2 (Canno): Reread. Switches to following some other students with they various love geometries, but the pair from vol 1 are there in the background. They’re not as interesting as the original pair, but it sounds like the next volume will switch back to them.

Written (game design): 523:

There’s two scenarios I’m looking at for moving around in combat
and stopping other people from moving around, that the system needs
to support. (I think, or maybe this is something that would never
happen with real players, but it’s what I imagine.)

The first is the very basic round where Character A is running
across the battlefield to shank somebody, and Character B (with
higher Readiness) reacts by moving to stop them. How does this work?
Our rule of thumb is doing things should work unless there’s a good
reason, and the character with higher Readiness should probably be
in control of timing and engagement, so maybe blocking just works.
A is going to have to deal with B in some way (murder, intimidation
(morale check), whatever).

Does it matter whether A is running down a narrow passage/through a
doorway, or across a wide-open space with room to maneuver? For this
basic case, probably not. B’s in the way, A has to deal with that.

What if B had lower Readiness, but declared they’re going to stop
whatever A is trying to do because they hate that guy? Is that even a
valid declaration? Maybe it’s not; if B wanted to be able to react to
A, they should have rolled more Readiness. But what if B declares
they’re going to get in A’s face? Can A use their higher Readiness to
just run away? That doesn’t seem right: B had to decide first, but the
action is happening at roughly the same time. Opposed Get Over There
rolls, I guess?

What if A is coming out of a narrow tunnel into a wider place and
B is already out there? Or vice versa? In that case whoever has the
better Readiness gets to decide whether they meet in the tunnel or
the open space. (If movement wasn’t always 1 zone, we could have
arguments about how A only has to move 2 squares to get out of the
tunnel but B has to move 4 squares to get into the tunnel to block them
up; good on us for avoiding that nonsense.)

What if it’s all in a narrow tunnel, but A is a big strong human and B
is a weak little goblin? Does B get run over if they try to block? This
is where we need to figure out how Strength and Size work, although we
also have to allow for the possibility of B tripping A or anything else
cleverer than body-blocking.

Once the blocking is sorted, though, at the end of the round A and B can
use their melee attack dice on each other unless they avoided contact
completely.

I’m sure they mean musical instruments, but what if they don’t? Is Uncommon Instruments the title of my new YA fantasy trilogy?

Went to the dentist to have my tooth looked at because it seemed dodgy on x-ray, they said it would have to come out soon so I had them take it out right there. Now my mouth is weird.

Watched (live-action TV): Leverage 5.12-13: The one with the mindfuckery and the one with the winery.

Read (manga): Gunbured x Sisters vol 1 (Wataru Mitogawa): She’s a sadistic, horny monster-hunting nun. She’s a free-lance monster hunter looking for her missing sister. Together they play out dom/sub scenes kill vampires. I’d say it’s completely lacking in redeeming social value, but even though it’s secondary world, it makes the Catholic church look bad, so that’s something.

Written (catgirl): 155.

Obviously the ultimate is chocolate-covered chocolate. Which I guess is a truffle?

Had some fillings put into my teeth, which was slightly annoying but not painful, due to having the good dentist.

Read: The Haunted Bookstore vol 1 (Medamayaki, Shinobumaru, Munashichi): A human girl lives in a bookstore in the spirit realm, not bothered by the anthropophagous yōkai and generally getting along just fine, and then an exorcist from the human world wanders in, bringing a potential plot with him. The first volume is mostly just introducing the spirit realm and its inhabitants, though.

Read: Hell Phone vol 1 (Benji Nate): Two twenty-something women find a phone that receives calls from ghosts, or maybe just that one ghost, and there’s a lot of mystery that needs resolving about her death. The art is weird in a specific kind of style that I don’t know the name of, maybe just “modern comics” but not too bad.

Read: How to Survive at the End of the World vol 2 (RC Joshua): Somehow, possibly by not being a jerk, or maybe by being really good at improvising bizarre weapons, our hero survives asshole aliens, ever-increasing difficulty levels, and system glitches to escape the end of Earth.

Written: 236.

Also Repeal of Prohibition Day, so Drunken Fist Ninjas!

Didn’t go into the office, because I had to get teeth cleaning this afternoon, so of course this was the busiest day of the week. I did just barely make it, or maybe not quite, but anyway my teeth are clean and I have ultra-fluoride toothpaste and an appointment for a small filling.

Read: I’m A Wolf, But My Boss Is A Sheep vol 3-4 (Shino Shimizu): There was already somebody chasing sheep lady, but now there’s another romantic rival on the other side, making it a full-fledged Love Rhombus.

Written: I ran out of notes, so Marith told me to write a random vignette of other characters in that setting. 304.

What do you mean tell an old joke? I am an old joke!

No office today, I had dentistry in the afternoon. The hygienist was very approving of my tooth care, so go me.

Read: Food School (Jade Armstrong): Slice of life comic about being in a treatment program for eating disorders.

Read: Behind the Curtain (WR Gingell): Athelas and YeoWoo and Camellia and Harrow are all kind of getting along, and It looks like everything has been resolved and the mysteries uncovered, but that is obviously not the case, since there is a whole fifth book to come!

Written: 212.

If I had gone to the office, I could have had delicious pie, but instead I went to the dentist and got my teeth cleaned and drilled and filled. Hopefully this will extend my ability to eat pie into the future, even if it was much less delicious in the short term.

Written: 123. I think even when I’m planning ahead I get too bogged down in not resolving the plot, but at least this way there’s less to unwrite.

Remember when there was more than Google and Amazon and Facebook?

Went to get my teeths cleaned, found out that some fillings had escaped and need to be replaced.

Played: Lancer. Boss fight! We stopped the fiery berserker just before before its reactor exploded and also just before my mech melted into a puddle from all the burn loaded onto it. Not only do we level up, but there’s a promise of information next session.

Written: FAIL.

Surprise meeting first thing in the morning, and not for a good reason, either. Multiple last-minute meetings before work tomorrow, too, probably to tell us the same thing on a larger scale.

In the afternoon, dentistry. The hygienist seemed very happy with the state of my teeth, though, so I guess I’ll keep up the flossing and brushing.

Did some messing about in boats in Minecraft, but could not figure out how to get the island sheep back out of my boat so I could lure it to my paddock.

Writing: FAIL.

 

Took the afternoon off for dentistry, which turned out to be more dentistry than I had remembered, but now I have a shiny new crown for chomping.

Read: Family Ties (BR Kingsolver): This reminded me of the Amber books a little, interdimensional family intrigue with magic and extensive murders, in a matter-of-fact tone. It is more generic fantasy, though, with elves and goblins and pretty generic magic.

Read: Trolled (Lindsay Buroker): Also dwarves and elves and orcs, but in modern Seattle. Third book of the series and the protagonist is definitely falling hard for the guy she has extremely valid reasons to not trust, even though he hasn’t betrayed her yet and also is a good kisser.

Read: The Scarab Mission (James L Cambias): Set in the same far-future, slightly Orion’s Arm-inspired, solar system as The Godel Operation (which I inexplicably failed to record reading, probably because it was over the holidays and I am very stupid), with one overlapping character. This is more like survival horror than action-adventure, scavengers on a dead hab that might not be entirely empty.

Written: 124 words. I count anything above 100 as “not zero”, so…

Although I had no meetings scheduled for the afternoon, that did not actually make it a good time to take off work because I had meetings all morning which made it hard to find time to get ready to go. But, somehow, I did it and made it to the dentist for crown replacement. Apparently now crowns are while-U-wait instead of just taking measurements for a later appointment, but I made it back in time to pretend to do some work and even get a soft dinner of chicken tenders. Which I then chewed on the side of my mouth I have rarely used this millennium, to protect the (abused flesh around the) new crown, probably hurting myself more than if I had just chewed on the crown side. You’d think I’d know how to eat by now, but no.

Played: Eclipse Phase 2. Apparently this station is even creepier than the marines originally thought. Also, daily survival rolls to go with the daily SAN rolls! Dave’s character failed, but we managed to keep him from being dissolved by acid. This time.

Words: FAIL. Did I mention I have to get up two hours early tomorrow?