Everywhere I go.

This is one of the photos that I took while we were walking through Downtown Rochester’s annual light show. There would have been more awesome photo opportunities if there was snow. One year we were there during a snow storm. There were several inches of fresh snow that fell that afternoon and it was still falling. The show is not ending yet so I still have time.

Did I mention that I tend to start blogs then wander off and abandon the entire idea of the whole concept? It’s been days since I’ve been here and each absence seems to be a little longer than the previous. This time there are actually some legitimate reasons for being away. We had Thanksgiving, Black Friday, my downtown Rochester trip and dinner at Rochester Mills Brewery, then a tooth extraction.

Tooth extraction? Ah. Yes. That was the result of some venison chili that I made back in September. No, I didn’t wait until now to eat it. This is how long it took for the crack in the tooth to actually show itself. I ate the chili on September 27th and right after finding the big chunk of bone the hard way all of my teeth on the right side of my mouth felt like they were rearranged. Nothing visible. The dentist couldn’t find anything, either. The day after Thanksgiving the tooth felt even more different so when I looked at it using a magnification mirror there was a slight different appearance to it. By Monday, there was even a more noticeable change but it still didn’t look like a crack – just looked like some discoloration in the valley – it was tooth #5 from the center front. You know, the one that’s not sure if it wants to be a molar or not. I called and made an appointment on Saturday which was a good move on my part because on Tuesday morning it was pretty obvious that the tooth was cracked in half laterally.

Wonderful, eh?