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Yesterday was the first time I’ve played paintball. At this point, I’m thinking, perhaps a full day is not the best way to jump into it. My current archnemesises are, in order of decending evil, stairs, picking things up off the floor, standing from a sitting possition, and finally, walking.

I was in a private group of 25-30 people, mostly family and friends of a co-worker’s brother, but also some people from work and their families. We went out to Corona (Huh, cows. In Southern California. Those can’t be native) in the early morning hours to get to SC Village. It seemed like a pretty good place, they had a lot of different fields to play on, with various obstacles, ranging from old helicopters, to dirt mounds and trenches, to plywood buildings, to tall grass and weeds.

I feel I did ok for a first time out, I managed to hit some people, and support my teammates. And of course, I took a fair number of hits myself. Some seem to be ok today, some appear to be severe wounds, such as the bruise that covers my shoulder and extends onto my chest, with a bright red circle in the middle of it. I’m thinking some people may have been shooting a bit faster than the 240 fps they were supposed to be.

My day ended with getting home, managing to watch a half hour of TV, and then I have a brief memory of a cat being curled up against my chest, and then it was 2 hours later, and I guess time to go up to bed.

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Nothing beats a dental visit to really complete one’s day. It didn’t go too badly though (other than the rinse at the end. I could have sworn it was green mouthwash going in. Why was it bright red when I spit it out?). The process was root planing, where an ultrasonic cleaner is used to make everything below the gum line smooth so that the gums can reattach. Which sounds nice. I think I’ll like that. While cleaning, the dentist decided that I’ll need one more tooth capped than what was originally planned from the xrays.

Next week I go back to get the other half of my mouth done. And sometime I’ll need to go in for the root canal. The dentist wanted to get me in for an emergency one, but she neglected to pass that info on the the receptionist/schedule person, so, I guess I’m waiting for my insurance company to send me permission to have it done. I assume by way of mail, so it may be a while. On the plus side, after the cleaning, things don’t hurt so much, so I may be able to wait until after Thanksgiving.

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Kiwi!

I think there are various Masters thesises that could be written about this particular Masters thesis. Just how far would I go to realize a dream? Certainly there are many things that I would like to do or have happen, and in most of the cases, I don’t even feel strongly enough about them to put any effort into realizing them. Those that I do work towards, I know what kind of effort they will take, and will commit that much energy to them, but no more. I don’t think there are any for which I would take all the stops out and expend everything I have to reach.

I don’t know if that’s good in that I have realistic and safe plans, or bad in that I don’t have big enough dreams.

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Apparently it was a good thing I signed in to my hosting account tonight. Buried over on the domains tab was an indication that FNFD.org was set to expire 11/10/06. “Huh, that’s tomorrow” I said to myself. Continuing on, “Hey, apparently powweb goes by Eastern time. So, that’s in 40 mintues.”

Now, I was pretty sure I got a notice a while back and that I’d renewed. In fact, I have an email from September indicating that I had, in fact, renewed it already. Which was backed up by that after filling out my billing stuff to pay for the renewal tonight, a status screen came up telling me that tonight’s renewal was “pending” and also on the screen was another message indicating that a different renewal had gone through.

Around about that time I was becoming fairly curious about if I could find some record that money had changed hands over the first renewal, so off to my credit card’s site I went. Which told me that I couldn’t go there anymore because they’d merged with Bank of America. Bank of America really didn’t like my login credentials and wanted me to answer a question about my mother’s city of birth, which I am all but certain I had never told them.

As it turns out, in the merger process, someone with a BoA account had the login name my MBNA account was using, so they were conflicting. I lost out in the merger, so I had to go with a new user name. Hooray for more usernames to have to remember. Boo for other people with my perfered username.

I did manage to get logged in though, so I got to look at my old statements, and in fact I had not paid for the other renewal. Now it would have been nice for someone to tell me that at some point in the last two months, but I guess I might ask for too much sometimes. On the plus side, the charge for tonight’s renewal was listed, so, I have high hopes that it will go through, and there will be an FNFD.org 7 minutes from now. And possibly in the morning and for the next year as well.

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