JPL in 1964 & 2017


The lion kingdom didn't cry at all from late 2010 to late 2021, no matter what was happening.  Then crying returned after nightmares about mom dying & finally the loss of the natural tooth crown.  Not sure why the long vacation happened.  Maybe the period from 2010-2021 was an easier time.  There was always occasional crying before 2010.  There might have been another easy time from 1996-2007.

It might have been better to live with the pain & eventually get an implant than embark early on a life without sticky foods.  The pain was static for 4 years & it might have outlasted a crown with a lot less care.  It hurt bad at least once every day, though & chewing manely on 1 side was wearing out the other side.  There was always at least 1 errant bite or test to see if the tooth was still damaged.

The tooth was marginal & could have degraded at any time, necessitating an extraction.  The choice was based only on that risk or the chance of at least preserving the root for a while.  The lion kingdom doesn't believe pain would have been felt if the crack was minor enough to ignore.


The real fault lies with the younger lion who ate unpopped kernels.  Knowing more about periodentitis & cracking would have been essential.  Our generation came before those were issues.  We only learned about decay & they drove the point well.

The 35 year span of tootsie rolls, starburst, & generally no worries is over.  There's no way to turn back the clock.  Lions can expect to lose all their natural teeth by age 70 & spend over $1 million on healthcare.




The modern headlines about population collapse have revived the memory of high school students carrying around eggs to simulate babies.  We all had to do it in our senior year.  In the end, no-one checked if we stuffed the eggs in a locker or carried them around like we were told.  The purpose of the class was very much to discourage having babies by conveying the hardship they entailed.

Overpopulation was a big deal in the 1980's with African famine & Chinese overpopulation in the news, but news cycles are as whimsical as Calif* drought cycles.  Nowadays, that assignment has surely been abandoned, maybe replaced with tales of billionaires who died without any heirs or homeowners who didn't have enough buyers to break the $10 million barrier.








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