It's Labor Day weekend, which means summer is somewhat over as kids head back to school. Here in Sedona, the temperatures are certainly cooling down just a little. The mid 60's in the morning are refreshing for hikes.

The entire month has mostly been around a tooth. In particular, a baby tooth that's just been sitting there, the permanent one never arriving to fill it in. It's a first molar, so wasn't visible unless I would pull my mouth open enough to intentionally show it to someone.

Dentists have always said it's been fine. And that it's more common than you'd think. So there was never any need to replace it but was always warned there would come a time.

That time has come.

At the beginning of the year, it had shown signs of finally close to giving out. Back in June, that's exactly what it did. Half of it cracked off.

August has been about starting a dental implant process. The first part being extracting the remnants of the tooth and getting a bone graft in place to support the implant. So now I have a hole in my mouth that's still healing along with the bone graft which is hardening. That takes a few months, so the next part in this journey, to actually get the implant screwed in (or whatever they do), isn't until November.

I'd always thought you just get the implant and done, but there's a bit more to the process. The implant itself isn't anything other than a place to screw in a crown you get later. Insurance doesn't like to play for it all. I'm told mine should cover about half of the costs, but for many, it's not covered at all. At least once I have the implant, the crown is screw in, so I don't think I have to worry about any additional oral surgery at that point.

House Build Status

After almost a year now after starting our design process, our plans have been with the county to get a building permit approved. We're still waiting on it, but seems to be in its final stages. Our builder is ready to go, and we're hopeful to get an actual start date within the next week or two.

In the meantime, my wife and I are learning a lot about recessed lighting.

Movies

  • The Catskills is a documentary about the Catskills. Having seen this area showcased on one of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel seasons, when some neighbors said they were going to see this, we joined in to find out more about the area.
  • Terrifier (2016) is a film that I've seen a bit written/talked about on the internet. I hear the second film is much better than the first, but why start out with a sequel? This is not a good film. It's basically, murderous clown enters a restaurant, then murders. That's it. There are some gruesome scenes, but there's no story or plot. Not really a fan of this one.
  • Deadpool & Wolverine I felt was just okay. It was nice to see the characters. But felt like it was more interested in setting up scenes depicted in past comics, continually winking to comic fandom the entire time.
  • The Bricklayer is another Renny Harlin directed film. I keep thinking, since his name's attached, I'm going to get a decent action film. I still love Cliffhanger and The Long Kiss Goodnight, but he definitely needs to get someone to get him a good script to direct. The Bricklayer has some decent action, but characters making dumb choices, or doing stuff purely to get to a scene setup, just takes me out of the entire thing.
Josh Hartnett in Trap.
  • Trap is M. Night Shyamalan's most recent pic. I missed his last few, but have to say I did enjoy this one quite a bit. Josh Hartnett is really great in this. The ending scene sent shivers down my arms. There's no twist here, but the title of the movie takes on a new depth you didn't realize until then, and it's chilling.
The Trip. This vacation isn't going quite as planned.
  • The Trip (2021) was a surprise. Added it to my watch list after seeing it come up in a couple of YouTuber's list of films over the past month or so. Director Tommy Wirkola also directed last year's Violent Night, which I enjoyed, too. I can see how this film influenced that one. Lots of fun.
Sharks in the river in Under Paris
  • Under Paris is on Netflix and looked fun. It was. Imagine the Olympics events this past summer in the Siene River, only if it was shark infested.
  • Alien: Romulus brings the franchise back a bit to basics. This one's more of a haunted house flick. And I liked it, but did audibly groan when they had a character repeat a famous line from Aliens which was obvious fan service. It did pull me out of the film a bit, but otherwise enjoyed it.

The Reelhouse Foundation still hasn't had any online events. I'm hopefully they'll resume, even if they need to be further spread out. So if one pops up, I'll certainly record my viewing of it here, but won't post anything about them otherwise. Possible that I'll attend their fundraiser in February, but we'll see.