Had to take off a day of work today so I could spend 3 hours in a dentist’s chair.  I got scraped, jabbed, poked, drilled, filed, and chuckled at AND I had to pay them $400.

But I have a new tooth.  Or, well, one on the way.   This next one will be porcelain fused to a metal base.  In the between-time I have this rubbery replacement that sort-of looks like a real tooth but is indescribably better than the peg-toothed yokel-snarl I was sporting this morning.

And, while it is less likely to shatter like this last one did. . .

it still isn’t rated to do the work of my $50 Leatherman Blast.