My toothache got worse by the hour as the afternoon progressed, and by my 4 p.m. dentist appointment I was ready for any solution he had to offer. In the short term it's spelled Vicodin, but by tomorrow at 9 a.m. I'll be in the chair of a specialist getting a root canal in a tooth that already has a crown. Turns out he can drill through the crown to work his magic, after which I'll go back to my dentist to get that hole plugged. So by noon tomorrow I should be all better, and between now and then those little pills will work their magic.
Spring training games began here today and they'll run through March. Those games bring lots of money into our economy and give people from places with brutal winter weather an excuse to get a good dose of sunshine and warmth. They also bring a crazy amount of traffic right around us (six teams are located within 8 miles of our house) and fill up local eateries with people wearing hats from places like Chicago and Cleveland. So we have mixed feelings about the next 30 days.
AZ Governor Jan Brewer vetoed SB 1062, but that came as no surprise to most people here. One of the guys at Pathway is a lobbyist and he pointed out to me last Sunday that AZ doesn't have any laws prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation. So the law was trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist, and making a mess of our still fragile economy in the process. We may someday have laws that would force, for example, a wedding photographer to work a gay wedding. And when that time comes the people of Arizona will have this debate in earnest. At least I hope they will, and that states with those laws currently in place will do so now. It's an issue with implications worth discussing.
That's all I got. I'm going to eat some mushy dinner and then grab me one of those Vicodin.
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