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The past couple days I've been dealing with some serious sinus pain. I get that from time to time, but fortunately not to this degree very often. The first time it happen I thought it was my upper right wisdom tooth growing into my hard palette -- turned out I don't have an upper right wisdom tooth, and it was just what an infected maxillary sinus can do to your teeth. Look down on allergy and sinusitus sufferers all you want, but I have had cavities drilled without any painkiller or gas, and this kind of thing is worse. It lasts for days. But then it just quickly goes away. In my case today, it disappeared literally minutes after I got home from the doctor. My perscriptions hadn't even been filled yet. So that was nice. (Unfortunately my teeth were in such pain for the past two days that my diet was half food, half ibuprofin, and I'm now waiting for my stomach to work itself out....)

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Man I hate when people whine about their health.

So anyway, I don't care for commercials. There was one I liked the other day: it was the name of a website on a black screen, and a voiceover that didn't say what the website is. It was silent for half the ad. I like that. But one of the car dealerships is having an "A to Z sale" or something where they list all their cars in alphabetical order and then show one apparently named Z. Is that just random, or is there really a car model called "Z"? If there is, did they name it that just for the commercial? Do they know it's a letter, or at best an initial, and not a real name? Did they run out of made-up names? Or is it just a confusing ad?

Fetishized consumerism masquerading as indications of lifestyle and personality drives me to drink. And for that I turn to Guinness beer, a hearty beverage for real men. Don't forget to try Guiness Extra Stout!

-Posted by M