syzygies between syzygies

On Friday, my bite slipped somehow at lunch and came down hard on the fork, necessitating a hasty visit to the dentist. This was actually the second time this month, a few weeks ago one of my back teeth chipped for no apparent reason. So I have a follow-up visit (for that earlier injury, but I hope they can take care of everything) on Tuesday and then my regular cleaning scheduled for Thursday. Which is a lot of time to spend at the dentist. Erica has an appointment at the orthodontist on Tuesday, too, as her retainer stopped being an acceptable fit.

Friday afternoon, went with the whole family for seasonal vaccines, which was, like a blood-draw earlier this year, a struggle for Erica. And thus extremely draining for the both of us. At least she did get it together and get through it eventually, I'm proud of her, but I wish it wasn't such an ordeal.

Today is a very rainy day, though at least not as rainy and windy as originally forecast. And we're all feeling under the weather.

Erica's been very into all things Pokemon lately, and she's making a lot of crafts and jewelry with perler beads. She also finger-knit a hat with some chunky yarn she got from the second-hand craft-supplies store nearby.

I've been playing Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, which I am late to playing due to its mixed reviews. I'm having fun with it, but the mixed reviews are deserved. It has some real issues with level design that it papers over in ways that make it even more clunky (e.g. NPCs who are yellow-paint incarnate, there to direct the player in ways that should follow smoothly from context, but don't, or to give Samus assistance that seems like it should be totally unnecessary just to give the player extra reason to backtrack).