• 12:28 A.M.
  Using the Force (samurai)

I like my dentist. I ran into him at the showing of "Revenge of the Sith" that I went to with Helen. He showed up with his wife, screening the movie to make sure it was appropriate to show their child. He's a super cheerful guy, and very gentle.

Today, I was in the dentistery getting another decaying tooth repaired. The technician stood up and moved off the the side, saying "ooh I have to sneeze." "I know it sounds weird," my Dentist volunteered, "but I kinda LIKE to sneeze." Another one for the list of "things I would not have expected someone with their hands in my mouth to say".

Meanwhile, a couple of chairs away, I hear the hygienist and a patient discuss Scientology and bipolarity. "I can spot another bipolar person," said the patient, "it takes one to know one!"

Back at work an hour later, I found myself wondering what sort of effects swallowing a lot of anaesthetic would have, as I definitely felt run down and stupid. I'm pretty sure that's from spending most of last night freaking out about the dentist instead of going to sleep.

Tonight, Helen and I cooked in (yay!) and watched "The Seven Samurai", a film which reportedly influenced George Lucas in his designs for "Star Wars". Well, there's an old guy in there who's a heck of a lot like Yoda. It's hard to place where the other samurai might pop up in the S. Wars films, though. One of them reminds me of nothing so much as the muppet "Animal".

I mentioned cooking in? Yes. I had let the meat that I bought get a day or two out of date, and it was starting to pick up a sort of rancid smell. I used an ancient Chinese technique for dealing with this: put way too much oyster sauce and garlic on it. The technique was successful: I could detect no rancid taste at all on the meat when I served it to myself.

It should be evident by now that I'm kind of scatter headed at the moment. What I'm thinking about is a link I got while at work - I like black keyboards and all, but this might be going a little too far. Sure, it makes it clear that you're not looking at the keyboard, like anyone who has learned a method of touch typing, but how impressive is that, really? Heck, at work I use a compact keyboard with a trackpoint built in. I hold it under my desk in my lap, and type and mouse completely out of sight. As far as someone looking in my window can tell, I'm just watching TV. LEET.