2008-04-02

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I'm up, I have three quarters of a cup of coffee in me, and I've had some toast and Cheez Whiz for breakfast.

There are vibrations and brrrrrrrrtttttt! sounds coming from downstairs. The owners are doing some work on apartment #29. The subtle trembling of the building and the noises are freaking Mina out, and frankly it's not doing much for my nerves either.

Listening to Headline News again. Second verse, same as the first. I much prefer Canadian media for solid information, but American news is SO much more entertaining.

Feeling a little bit withdrawn today. I'm not sure why. Hopefully it's not the forerunner of depression. So if I'm not commenting on other people's posts as much as I usually do -- it's not you, and I'll try to catch up tomorrow.

Random piece of information: Yesterday I was listening to a show on National Geographic Channel about the intelligence of pigs, and they reported on a pot-bellied pig who was trained use his nose to push a golf ball across the floor to a tiny golf green and into a hole cut in the green plastic. However, getting the ball up onto the slightly raised surface was tricky, so the pig, figuring out that the point was the get the hole around the ball, would push the ball up next to the little green and then pick the green up and put it down over the ball. Ta-dah! We have a winnah!

Time to do a bit of Internet surfing, then back to work. Later there will be a links post. Stay tuned for the details of how to make a kitty litter cake. Yes, you read that right.
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My blood sugars have been all over the place since I started monitoring again on March 28th, mostly high. Yesterday after breakfast I clocked in at 22.4, and today after breakfast it was 19.7.

This is not good. If I can't get those numbers under control through diet and exercise, it will be time to go back to my doctor and look at more medication, new medication, or possibly insulin injections.

It's very disturbing to think that I might have deteriorated that much in the course of a year. Then again, I'm not exercising as much as I was a year ago and that might have a lot to do with it.

What's even more worrying is that I have NO symptoms when my blood sugars are in the stratosphere. Well, maybe a bit of excess urination, but that's it. Diabetes would be a much easier disease to monitor and keep on top of if there were obvious and unpleasant side effects, such as people experience with food allergies. As it is, someone can be seriously diabetic for years and not be aware of it, and if you don't get sick from eating too much sugar that's one less incentive not to cheat on your diet. Especially when hot fudge sundaes are so utterly delicious.

... not that I've had one lately. I'm just saying.
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For those of you who don't know, filk is the folk music of the science fiction and fantasy community. I tend to forget that it exists for years at a time, and then suddenly -- lo and behold! -- I remember that some of it is actually not half bad.

Take the following song, which was written about the space program:

Hope Eyrie

It's by my favorite filk artist of all time, Julia Ecklar, and can still send chills up my spine. See if it does the same for you.

Or this one, also about the space program, which is more lighthearted:

Witnesses Waltz

Hope you enjoy them.
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I just finished chowing down on a pizza from Diana's Gourmet Pizzaria, which won the Best Pizza in Canada award in 2005, 2006, and 2006. Pepperoni, mushroom, and green pepper on a thin whole wheat crust. Little slices of heaven.

Earlier this afternoon I did 20 minutes of step aerobics, which had a very good effect on my blood sugars. Just after exercise and before eating some lasagna and mixed veg, my reading was 11.4; two hours later, it was still 11.4. Excellent. We'll see what it's like once this pizza has had a chance to hit my system.

George and I had planned a couple of weeks ago to go to dinner at a friend's place this weekend. Yesterday Tara called to see if we were still coming over, and I had to call her today to reschedule. I'm just not making good enough time on MM and I've had to take breaks during each working day; I"m not sure if my lack of concentration and tiredness are the result of rampaging blood sugars or not, but it's as good an explanation as any at this point.

Back to work with a cup of coffee.

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