In the middle of another incredibly busy day, something happened that took me out of my hectic spin and made me sit down and thin.k. I was trying to wolf down a salad while talking on a conference call (muted while chewing)..   my first bicuspid on the top right met a slightly stale cruton… and broke.. .. really broke !.   I fished the piece out from the stuff I was chewing and stared at it. i was about a quarter of the tooth.. big and hard and toothy. and where it used to be was a funky hole … terra incognita for my curious tongue..

I sat and stared at the piece.. that tooth had been with me.. part of me.. since i was 10 or so.. it’s seen me through middle school and high school. through college(s) .. through my professional career. through meeting my wife.. the birth of my kids.. the passing of one .. It was with me when I slept on the floor of the Colony.. it tasted rat…

After all that, It seemed kind of heartless to throw the piece  of tooth away.. it seemed wierd and pretnetious to give it some sort of ceremony.. what to do ?   I resolved to blow it up .. maybe this weekend.. it seems fitting..

I called the dentist and set up a time to get it ‘fixed’.. whatever that means.. maybe if it can’t be repaired I can make soem thign cool to go in its place.. that would be an up side..

I got therough the rest of the day by gently avoiding the righ side of my mouth.. I sipped my drinks.. chewed my salad left-ily. The day wasn’t the same though.. It was like the loss of the tooth had snapped me back to reality .. I was pretty calm.

Calm that is until 4:30 when Guido brought in a group of 6 goofy Weebelos to do some mad science stuff. Great kids.. .. an nice end to a tough day..

Ah.. here’s something else to chew on.. IBM did a 2 minute composite of my  friends Jai, Julia, Jeff and I  talking about ‘data’   . It’s pretty interesting

OK..   That’s it for tonight.. I’m going to put my tooth piece under my pillow and see if the tooth fairy shows up.

Night all.. night Sam
-me