Weekly update 02/21/26 – 02/27/26 (Dental Work Experience, Blog Indexing Issues, and Political Reflections)

I hope everyone has had a good February!

This week, I got started on dental work. On Wednesday, I got two fillings, one on the left side and one on the right. The process was mostly painless. The biggest shock came when they were working on the tooth on the right side. I do not know what kind of drill they were using, but man, it was loud. It sounded like they were using a jackhammer on my head. There was a little shaking, but the noise was unbelievable. I think it must have been transmitted directly from the jawbone to the ear.

It was odd having to have both sides of my face numbed. The oddest part was later, when I tried to drink from a cup. My upper lip was swollen and very numb. When I put the cup to my mouth, I simply could not feel it or the water in it until the water reached the back of my mouth.

I am going to be spending some time this weekend working with ChatGPT, trying to see what improvements I can make to get Google to pay attention to my blog. I have over 110 posts and pages, but Google only recognizes about five of them.

This week was the State of the Union address. I did not watch it because I did not want to spend nearly two hours being lied to. But knowing it was happening made me think about some of the outrageous things this president has said he wanted to do. One of the strangest, of course, is making Canada into the 51st state. I wonder if the president has really thought that through.

 I think it is pretty clear that Canadians, who mostly love their health care and believe in what they call “Good Government,” would not back the GOP, especially since the GOP would be the ones responsible for bringing them into the United States. So they would mostly back the Democrats, making the state of Canada (or, I assume, knowing this president, the state of Trump) a strongly BLUE state.

 That would mean there would be two more Democrats in the Senate.

 Based on their population, there would be at least 45 new members in Congress. Since Congress is limited to 435 members (since 1929, by law, not the Constitution), those new members would be taking seats away from other states, and many of the seats lost would likely be Republican seats.

Finally, Canada would become one of the largest states in the union and one of the largest holders of Electoral College votes, making it much harder for Republicans to win the White House.

Sounds like the president might be determined to shoot himself in the foot!

 

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