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The town is divided into various groups, which form so many little states, each with its own laws and customs, its jargon and its jokes. While the association holds and the fashion lasts, they admit nothing well said or well done except by one of themselves, and they are incapable of appeciating anything from another source, to the point of despising those who are not initiated into their mysteries. |
Wednesday, August 6, 1997
Another episode in my dental saga today. Dr R--- was able to restore a tooth that I thought would be lost, since a corner was broken off and there was a lot of decay (yuck!). She and the hygenist are always chatting about the hygenist's military reserve schedule while I'm there. Next, I need to see a different practitioner for a root canal. Dr. R--- says that the other things wrong in my mouth could wait till January, when more insurance kicks in. Just when was it the warranty on my body ran out? I knew I should have mailed in that card!
The oral surgeon's office gets started earlier, which I like. I am not naturally an early riser; I have worked evenings for large chunks of my life. But getting to MS early means less traffic, easy parking, and extra hours easily added on.
I actually got some things accomplished at work today: got some bugs off my plate, made some progress on an article I am working on, and made some good contacts at some internal web sites. One of my current tasks is helping people who have been depending on certain browser quirks find ways to work around it if those quirks are no longer there. Naturally, they aren't thrilled to hear this.
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My web buddy Lance is up for Cool Site of the Year. I think I first found him through something called the Worlds Fair on the web, a year and a half ago. (ha! snobbery of saying "I knew him when") It's fun looking through the old mail (but some is on my machine at work), like looking through an album. He has always taken it in good part when I would rave about CSS, or point out that Microsoft wasn't the one who invented browser specific web sites.
So check out Glassdog, and vote for him in the Design and Personal categories. (Thus the web cabal continues in endless self-referential linking.)
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