Thankful Thursday
2023-05-04 11:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mdlbearToday I am grateful for...
- National Widow's Day.
- Rechargeable batteries (AKA storage batteries). The tech who cleaned my teeth yesterday had a cordless polisher, which was something I'd never seen before. She said it was much more comfortable to use than the old sort. Almost every time I go they have some new piece of tech; my favorite was the X-ray gun that could have been straight out of Buck Rogers.
- Similarly rechargeable cars. Molly is currently costing $.013/kWh, which works out to $8.50 for a full charge that gets me ~200mi.
- Filkers. Filk is good too, but it's the filk community that's made it a musical home for me.
- Electric heating pads and OTC pain-killers.
- Sleep, when I can get it. Two consecutive nights over 8 hours, which is kind of unusual for me.
And May the Fourth be with you.
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Date: 2023-05-08 04:31 pm (UTC)Dentists innovate with their tools and gadgets!
CraftOptics telescopes mounted on eyeglass frames were refined by my former dentist.
My first digital x-rays were at the dentists. I love the light-activated "porcelain" fillings, particularly the super-dark glasses I get to wear when they're hardening them.
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Date: 2023-05-08 05:56 pm (UTC)Mine too. But not as impressive as the sensor they used one time when my wife was in the hospital. Solid state, digital, and about 50cm square.
I also really like the made-on-the-spot crowns that are carved out of a block of ceramic with a CNC mill.
Hadn't heard of those CNC crowns
Date: 2023-05-09 03:16 pm (UTC)and that's a great service. MyGuy's teeth seem to be inhospitable to temporary crown covers--he's had to cope with drugstore glue twice.