This morning I had to go back to the dentist for my scheduled follow-up to fit a newly created porcelain crown to one of my teeth, after my appointment two weeks ago to have the teeth scanned and the original tooth ground down for fitting of the crown. The temporary plastic crown was annoying as it didn’t fit properly—having not been made as a custom fit like the porcelain one is—and was causing me some pain when chewing and a dull ache during the night.
The dentist removed that and fitted the new crown, completing the job in about half an hour, including time for the anaesthetic to take effect. The new crown feels a lot better than the temporary one and tonight I was able to chew my dinner normally without pain, so the signs are good. It still feels a little unusual, but the previous crown I had done settled down after a few weeks and has been find ever since.
When I got home, my Internet was down. I’d planned a day of preparing lessons for online classes tomorrow, but I couldn’t do the necessary research and image searching. So I went for a 5k run. But it wasn’t back when I got home, and stayed off until mid-afternoon. I did manage to write a bunch of slides and then fill them in with images after the net came back on.
Tonight my next ISO Photography Standards meeting starts. The physical meeting is at Apple HQ in Cupertino, California, but I haven’t travelled there for it. Frankly, I don’t want to risk a trip to the USA at the moment with the political situation there. Having seen stories of Australians being detained and deported for no good reason, it’s too scary to consider.
The first day’s meeting begins after lunch, at 13:30 California time. I’d made some crazy mistake converting the time zones and concluded that 9-5 in California corresponded to 11pm to 7am here. But upon double checking tonight, I found I was somehow 4 hours out. The 9-5 day there actually corresponds to 3am to 11am here. This is great news, because I can get a few hours sleep before waking up at 3am each night, rather than have to be awake during my entire normal sleep cycle. And tonight, with the meeting beginning at 13:30, that’s actually 07:30 tomorrow morning for me! I can get my full normal night’s sleep! I’m going to savour it.