Had my first acupuncture session yesterday evening
Five of us, all of whom had gone through the same thing as me.
Nobody spoke to me so I didn't speak to them, I'm not one for starting a conversation but I'll always respond if somebody talks to me.
I did listen to them though and I noted that they're all still banging on about their experience 3 or 4 years after the event whereas I honestly rarely bring it up in conversation now.
Also noticed how some said it was a truly dreadful experience. Well, yeah, it weren't no fun but considering what we beat, it weren't
that bad.
Bit of an eye-opener really. Also noted that some could eat sandwiches with plenty of sauce or mayonaise - I can't.
Yet another observation was that some were at least ten years younger than me but spoke and acted as if they were ten years older than me. There were ten of us initially, five for an oral hygiene course, the other five for acupuncture, that's why there was such varied conversation.
After the acupuncture I get the oral hygienne course but I'm kinda curious as to what they can teach me. I clean my teeth three times a day with an electric toothbrush, use a fluroride mouthwash and floss - what else is there to learn? We shall see.
There's a fine Irish lady giving us the acupuncture, I had 8 needles inserted into me, two in each ear, one each under each eye and one each in my forefingers. And in case you're wondering, yes, they do hurt, lol
Two minutes after insertion I felt very dreamy, relaxed and kinda happy. After ten minutes the acupuncturist twisted them around and after twenty minutes she removed the needles. No improvement in increased saliva generation yet but early days yet.
Some may recall I wanted to play an old Windows 95 game called LBA2 (Little Big Adventure 2 - Twinsenn's Oddyssey) and was trying to install Win 95 on my socket A machine. I had installed Win 3.1 but it wouldn't recognise my usb mouse. I bought a PS2 optical mouse from Maplins today for a tenner and after installing files from Win 3.1 floppy disk 2 the mouse worked.
I installed Win 95 from my upgrade disk within Win 3.1 but it would not start, I kept getting an error message saying Windows Protection Error - please reboot. It did start in safe mode but that no good.
I wiped the hard disk, re-installed DOS 6.22 and attempted to load the full version of Win 95 Abarbarian sent me an ISO of. No go cos DOS 6.22 didn't recognise my optical drive.
I know the drivers I need to make DOS 6.22 recognise optical drive, I used to have them, but can't find them now. I have 4 CD drive drivers on floppy disks but none of them worked. Abarb's disk would not install from Win 3.1
Which leaves me pretty much snookered. Even if I did get Win 95 installed I doubt very much whethere I'd find drivers for the DFI motherboard's onboard sound or the AGP ATI video card.
So basically I've given up on Win 95.
I have, however, found LBA2 on an abandonedware site and there's a patch, apparently, to make it work within XP. Watch this space.
I have landed a nice medium sized job but can't start until the builders hand the new building over to the school they've built it for. They won't let me work in the building until they've finished as they don't like sub-contractors other than those they appoint working there.
The reason being, probably, is they lose a nice commission if the school employs me direct.
Male builders eh - sometimes just like big spoilt kids.
I've been quite idle, lost track of time and thought Monday was Sunday, but all in all, nowt really exciting here but all is as well as it could be I suppose.
God I'm good..
Still, mustn't look a gift horse in the mouth, this probably means I can eat beans all the way to the end of September now.
Still, pub governor said he'd continue to use me. I should hope so too, weren't my fault, lol
you don't use it you lose it , thats what they say innit!
Sounds like you might be on another waiting list(?) Perhaps it would help to give the Appointments Department a call, just to get an idea of where you are on their list, before you make other arrangements. As CL says, it can be quite expensive privately - besides which, you are entitled to be treated and shouldn't really have to think of digging deeply into your own piggy-bank. That said, I can understand that you would want to get started on the treatment sooner rather than waiting endlessly. Good luck, hope you can get something sorted soon. 
