Dental Institute

Last night I listened to another episode in the Doctor Who radio series. This one, called "No More Lies", starts in the middle of a story, as a strange alien criminal escapes from the Doctor (played by Paul McGann) in a time-travelling escape pod. The Doctor follows him and arrives at a sophisticated garden party, where he finds out that the alien has been living on Earth for thirty years and has become very wealthy. However, the party is caught in an endlessly repeating "time-loop" and there are dangerous monsters from outside of space and time trying to manifest themselves. Later on I watched the third and final part of the Red Riding trilogy of TV movies based on the David Peace novels. In this episode the scene has switched to 1983, where a troubled defence lawyer (played by Mark Addy) begins convinced that the person arrested for the brutal murders in 1974 is in fact innocent, and one of the corrupt police officers becomes increasingly disillusioned by the day-to-day brutality and corruption. Interestingly, there were four books in the series, bu the second novel was never adapted for TV. I don't know why.

I was off work again today, but I was out early to meet my Dad at the dental institute. The young dentist who spoke to me (who was female, Irish and very attractive) explained what I'll be in for. They did an x-ray of my mouth and the problem is that my two lower wisdom teeth are coming in at an angle, and so food is getting caught there and it means that there is starting to be decay, and I'll have to get the one on the left out. Apparently, they are going to cut a flap in my gum, drill a couple of holes in the bone and lever the tooth out, after which they'll stitch my gum back up again. I'll also need to get a filling in the tooth immediately in front of the one that is being removed. They said that they'll monitor the left hand side wisdom tooth and decide what to do about it in a year's time (by which time I may, hopefully, be in Canada but we'll deal with that when the time comes). However, I have an appointment to get my tooth out on the 9th November. They riginally wanted to schedule it for the 2nd November, but I changed it to avoid it clashing with my Mum's birthday.

Dad and I then went to the Royal Museum of Scotland, where we had coffee and a scone and had a quick look around the collections, what there were out anyway. The museums being refurbished and not much of the collection is on display. Then we went to Pizza Express and I had a Four Seasons pizza (a pizza divided into quarters with each quarter having a different topping: plain cheese and tomato, mushrooms, pepperoni or capers and anchovies). It was really nice. We had a look around the shops and then went our seperate ways.

I got three books in a three for two offer: Just After Sunset by Stephen King, A Most Wanted Man by John le Carre and Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami. So they should be good. Back home I went and dealt with the urine sample that I had to deliver to the doctor's surgery as part of their New Patient check-up.

The internet has been down most of today and that has been extrmemely annoying.