tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69340982481971211612009-07-04T10:55:38.284-05:00The Daily GrindAGD Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09495044833994580808noreply@blogger.comBlogger190125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6934098248197121161.post-63822237377656591462009-07-03T09:36:00.003-05:002009-07-03T14:07:30.320-05:00Community HealthHappy 4th. Yeah I am working today. I called my bank and the power company and they told me the bills were still going to be coming and no they wouldn't hold off on sending the bills because of Independence Day....hence we work.Man it is these kind of holidays that make me think about what I have. I mean can you even see the greatness of this country. We can say what we want, we can have our gatordmdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14811684043101204859jgammichia@aol.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6934098248197121161.post-25670762193164369712009-07-01T10:59:00.002-05:002009-07-01T15:37:59.102-05:00Hey all,Nothing really going on at home. I am doing a lot of running.Did I tell you I am training for another marathon. I want to try to break 4 hours. I am realizing this is a huge undertaking. This is about a 9 minute and 9 second mile. That is if you don't take breaks. So now the training is harder and the breaks are shorter. We ran 14 miles on Saturday. I ran 4.5 on Monday and I did gatordmdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14811684043101204859jgammichia@aol.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6934098248197121161.post-6361530547154021202009-06-26T07:02:00.003-05:002009-06-26T09:43:37.419-05:00Just a couple of storiesOkay Noah is the funniest five year old ever. I have told you stories but this one might top them all.He is doing Vacation Bible School for the first time this year. It is the first time he has been with these teachers so I think he recognizes this as an opportunity to charm other woman or it is just could be natural for him.One kid, Nathan, came into camp this week with a wad of gum hanging on gatordmdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14811684043101204859jgammichia@aol.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6934098248197121161.post-26135250576824918842009-06-24T10:10:00.002-05:002009-06-24T12:59:17.774-05:00Invisalign IIHi all, I have been pretty busy lately. Summer is here. TV shows are no longer new (I guess that is why John and Kate plus 8 did better than all the networks on Monday night). We are swimming everyday. It has been in the high 90's for a couple of weeks now. Our pool water temp is in the mid 80's. It is too warm. So when you jump in the pool to get refreshed you don't refresh. So without thegatordmdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14811684043101204859jgammichia@aol.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6934098248197121161.post-92101152110486551472009-06-22T08:18:00.002-05:002009-06-22T09:29:34.218-05:00FNDCHappy Father's day.A rare Monday blog.I hope you Father's had a nice day yesterday.I had a really nice day. Family, food and fun. My garage is done so I spent some of the day moving stuff in it. I now have a new attic so I was moving stuff in there. It was 101 degrees on Saturday so going to the attic this weekend was not a pleasant experience. You went outside in the 101 degree heat to cool gatordmdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14811684043101204859jgammichia@aol.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6934098248197121161.post-52645386499072044892009-06-19T06:57:00.002-05:002009-06-19T10:18:03.286-05:00Dental Boards IIHey,Nothing going on. The AGD annual meeting is less than three weeks away. If you haven't signed up yet...it is time. I am coming in to Balitmore on Thursday night. Classes all day Friday. I am giving a little thing at the AGD Booth for my council on the Know Your Teeth website. Friday night baseball game and then classes on Saturday. Come home Saturday night. Now that is how I am rolling gatordmdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14811684043101204859jgammichia@aol.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6934098248197121161.post-48364009412912953532009-06-17T07:42:00.003-05:002009-06-17T15:16:35.630-05:00Dental Boards storiesMagic lose. I have to tell you I am not that upset. I am definitely heart broken and I hate to lose especially to the Lakers and to Phil Jackson and Kobe, but I am trying to look at the whole season.We had an awesome season. We grew up this season. We will be stronger for it.(I think this is what all the losers say)But the best thing about the NBA being over....college football is right aroundgatordmdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14811684043101204859jgammichia@aol.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6934098248197121161.post-61841426140762436892009-06-12T11:56:00.000-05:002009-06-15T15:47:47.719-05:00Magic, books and dental adhesivesHi all,I started writing this on Tuesday and I picked it up this morning.You will be able to tell my moods when reading.OH MY GOSH!!I went to the Magic game last night. It was so great.Now you know that I have a great couple of years as a Gator fan.Just a reminder...National Championship in Football in 2006 and 2008 (and possibly 2009) Basketball National Championship in 2005 and 2006 and many gatordmdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14811684043101204859jgammichia@aol.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6934098248197121161.post-10066466309106785782009-06-10T14:13:00.003-05:002009-06-10T15:06:45.260-05:00Invisalign....Ghost writerHey all, I hope you are having a good week. I have a ghost writer who has a soap box that he wants to stand on. It is a bit long so I will not write anything about me. Except GO MAGIC (I went to the game last night. I will tell you about it on Friday).Here is a scenario; an major implant company representative walks into your office and smiles. He/She proceed to inform you that they have great gatordmdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14811684043101204859jgammichia@aol.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6934098248197121161.post-91358992974906428392009-06-05T10:54:00.002-05:002009-06-05T15:29:45.350-05:00Why didn't you go to the orthodontist that I recommened?Oh my gosh, what a great time for the Magic to play the worst game of their lives. The whole town is grumpy today. Not only did we stay up until midnight to watch this game but out team got beat like a red headed step child.I wanted to talk to you guys a minute. I just wanted to tell you how much I appreciate your comments. And lately I have received a bunch. I appreciate you reading and I gatordmdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14811684043101204859jgammichia@aol.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6934098248197121161.post-43487123010928208402009-06-03T13:01:00.003-05:002009-06-03T15:53:47.240-05:00You know, that patient.How do you like the new photo?I thought I might change the picture once a month.Oh, before I forget, I am looking for someone to help me with Monday's blog.As you can see I am having trouble getting a Monday blog together. So I was thinking someone could, once a week do an article review. If you read a lot of articles and want a forum to talk about it then it could be you.Write me at Jgammichiagatordmdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14811684043101204859jgammichia@aol.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6934098248197121161.post-19194400716247483772009-05-29T08:27:00.003-05:002009-05-29T14:41:38.475-05:00If you think you got problemsHi all,I hope you had a good week because I have had a terrible week.I have been working my tail off and been getting home late everyday.I went to the IJM gala (International Justice Mission) for their annual money raising/awareness thing last night and I couldn't get myself into the magnitude of the worlds problems because I am so wrapped up in my own world. It is so bad when I can't bring gatordmdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14811684043101204859jgammichia@aol.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6934098248197121161.post-78653315664942542072009-05-27T06:02:00.004-05:002009-05-27T10:23:08.352-05:00ConfessionsHi all, I am sitting here at my desk at 7am and I am like a tooth drilling zombie. The Magic vs. Cavaliers series is on so late. The normal game is ending at 11:45, but last night the game went into overtime. It was all worth it because the Magic won. Holy crap Lebron is good. I almost had a heart attack last night. Did you see it? So the game ends at 12:15am and you are so jacked up you gatordmdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14811684043101204859jgammichia@aol.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6934098248197121161.post-42474628498345395982009-05-22T12:34:00.006-05:002009-05-22T14:02:46.238-05:00ConfessionsHi all,I watched Rocky II with the family last night. Great movie. Next up on the queue is Rocky III. Clubber Lang you are next. "I pity the fool."My son Luke is so loving the Rocky series. Okay, right to it today. I was confessing what I do to you on Wednesday. I felt so good after I got these things off my chest. I want to do more. I am just going to come out with it. I treat kids and gatordmdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14811684043101204859jgammichia@aol.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6934098248197121161.post-71523734098934389002009-05-20T11:58:00.003-05:002009-05-20T15:25:00.491-05:00Root canal and crownHey all,I don't know if you know this but it has been raining for 3 straight days here. I am not talking about drizzling, it is pouring on and off all day and night.We lost power at my house for a couple of hours on Monday. When the power came back one of my thermostats failed to work. Now I don't know about other states but if you don't have air conditioning in Florida you are one sweating gatordmdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14811684043101204859jgammichia@aol.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6934098248197121161.post-49019773839085147492009-05-15T12:39:00.003-05:002009-05-15T14:16:39.507-05:00Laughing and cryingHey all,I hope you are having a great week.I wanted to make you laugh and cry before you went off to play for the weekend.Dental school was very traumatic for me. And to be honest with you I don't remember too many things. I have this lock down memory and I remember all these weird things from my childhood. I am a real hit at Christmas dinner because I am the "remember that time..." guy.So gatordmdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14811684043101204859jgammichia@aol.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6934098248197121161.post-73606157078341917562009-05-13T12:56:00.003-05:002009-05-13T15:23:04.329-05:00Response to the Ghost WriterSorry to all of you that subscribe via email.I started to type the title and hit the ENTER key.And God forbid you hit the wrong key...you post a blog.My wife and I got an ultrasound on Monday and it was the most nerve racking experience I have had in a long time.I will tell you about it later but one main thing.....ITS A BOY.That's right, another hairy Gammichia. Thanks for your prayers. I am gatordmdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14811684043101204859jgammichia@aol.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6934098248197121161.post-25509486078241950112009-05-08T09:01:00.002-05:002009-05-08T13:45:31.807-05:00More storiesHi all,I don't have much time so I will get right to it.In dental school we had a class full of partiers and for two years your truly was the "social chairman" (this was actually voted on).We worked very hard and partied very hard. One party I remember (must not have been a very good party) was after Neuroscience class.This was a grueling class. It was everyday for 12 weeks. There was a lab, gatordmdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14811684043101204859jgammichia@aol.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6934098248197121161.post-46208943474222399422009-05-06T15:33:00.003-05:002009-05-06T15:41:38.923-05:00Ghost writerHi all, As many times I have asked for people to be ghost writers on the blog not many have stepped up to the plate. Finally someone did. I have had this crazy day and I am looking forward to telling you more stories about my younger days. But I have to get out of here fast to go to my son's baseball game. I thought this would be a great time for this ghost writers opinion. Keep in mind gatordmdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14811684043101204859jgammichia@aol.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6934098248197121161.post-35147776875223333662009-05-04T10:39:00.004-05:002009-05-04T14:05:12.250-05:00I interrupt this thread to give you a storyOkay, last week I was talking to the IT guy at the AGD. We spoke of how the blog was going. You know things like, are people reading this? And things like are higher ups excited about the way things are going. I think they are happy and indeed people are reading this thing. It is very nice to hear that we are getting about 2200 readers a month. So it surprises me that I pour my heart out to gatordmdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14811684043101204859jgammichia@aol.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6934098248197121161.post-72303545204832535452009-05-01T07:41:00.002-05:002009-05-01T14:18:17.351-05:00Okay we are making it official...my wife is pregnant again.What can I say she can't keep her hands off me.She is 17 weeks tomorrow. We have had one ultrasound very early just to tell us that it was indeed a baby.So in two weeks we go for a real one. As you can imagine there is much tribulation about this one.We waited a long time to tell everyone because of our past disappointments.If you are gatordmdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14811684043101204859jgammichia@aol.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6934098248197121161.post-57028845963130488322009-04-29T15:53:00.003-05:002009-04-29T16:49:11.466-05:00Associate storiesI just ordered the Solaris LED headlight from a company called Perioptics. They were rated #1 from Reality. I am so excited. If you thought I looked like a geek with my Design for Vision loupes, just think what I am going to look like with a geek light on top of my geek glasses. Revenge of the Dental Nerds.I read The Appeal by John Grisham over my vacation and I got to tell you he has really lostgatordmdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14811684043101204859jgammichia@aol.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6934098248197121161.post-23875266234011042052009-04-27T13:05:00.000-05:002009-04-27T16:24:03.567-05:00When I was an associateI have to tell you that this is the third time I am writing this blog. Sometimes working with computers is so frustrating. I sometimes will put my thoughts down and save a draft and then, like Friday, I will come back to it when I have time to make the blog better. I worked on this draft for over an hour on Friday and then pressed the save button. Then it gave me an error signal and all my gatordmdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14811684043101204859jgammichia@aol.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6934098248197121161.post-48262780519662701912009-04-22T14:58:00.009-05:002009-04-22T16:08:07.414-05:00Napa pictorialHi all,Welcome back to me.Thank you for missing me.Okay here is the deal. I have thought of blogging about pre dental John Gammichia. I want to start a series on what was going through my mind when it comes to wanting to be a dentist. Most of it is going to be funny and stories we all can relate to. Today though I have wicked jet lag and I a just finishing a long day.But I want to tell you about gatordmdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14811684043101204859jgammichia@aol.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6934098248197121161.post-91665704480411328292009-04-13T10:51:00.003-05:002009-04-13T13:34:55.912-05:00Napa, Here we come.Hey,I hope you had a nice Easter/Passover.I don't think I told you but my wife and I are going to Sonoma County, California on Wednesday. We are big wine people. My wife likes it for the taste, I like it for the friends and buzz. We are going out there without kids for 6 days. I know what you are thinking. Man they go away alot.Yes, and it is becoming our thing. We love going away. We have agatordmdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14811684043101204859jgammichia@aol.com5