At this point, with everything going on in Washington and Hollywood and elsewhere, there's only one appropriate response: youtu.be/WlBiLNN1NhQ

Just the usual post-surgical residual ache, which is tolerable with ibuprofen and will be gone in a few hours.

After two X-rays and two hours in the dentist's chair, my dentist (who is awesome) has completed a root canal and made me a new tooth.

Just broke a tooth. Damn.

@kdfrawg Yeah…they were just about a year old, which means they were perfectly broken in.

@kdfrawg I do have several pairs of Birkenstocks, but just the one pair of clogs, which are nice to have when the weather cools down. My old ones got a mixture of meat juices and fat spilled on them last week when I was over at my mom's place and my brother was barbecuing. Next time I'll be more careful when I'm carrying in the steaks. Suede and grease are a bad combination.

@kdfrawg Do you only have one pair of shoes? ?

My clogs got ruined last week. These are replacements.

Good news: new Birkenstocks were just delivered.

Bad news: now I have to break in another new pair of Birkenstocks.

Stories like this are why I can't quite shake the feeling that Elon Musk is a modern-day Preston Tucker: https://www.autoblog.com/2017/11/22/tesla-spending-8000-dollars-per-minute-needs-cash