Done yesterday (20100503 Mo)

[mdlbear]

0503 Mo
  * up 6:40; W=198.2; drugs, nose
  @ Hewlett-Packard To Kill Windows 7 Tablet Project
  @ Decoding Steve Jobs’ Dressing Down Of Flash
  @ The State Of Web Development Ripped Apart In 25 Tweets By One Man
   * walk: 5x around pond.  A few minutes of bench-sitting
  * head down in the code mine
  * beds picked up by Apria
  * half a tonne of paper and e-waste hauled away by The Boys.  From the shed
    and the garage attic.
  * walgreen's: nitrile gloves
  @ Video codecs, IP and the passive aggressive voice | ZDNet UK
  * PAY BILLS (any due this week)
  * emailed Awsare re: new scrip for increased doxazosin dosage
  * fed. tax refun check arrived.
  % elevated pulse.  Sugar from the berries?  Or anxiety?  About what?
    Actually, the sugar is more likely.  Had some this afternoon, too, after
    eating some prunes.  Hmm.  Oh.  Right.  Prediabetic.  :( :(
  @ t r u t h o u t | Worse Than 1789? Amusing and scary.
    From ysabetwordsmith - A Vulgar Look at Economics
  * 10:15 bath, 11ish bed; S=9478

A good day. Productive. A meeting in the morning, a good walk, and an afternoon deep in the code mines working on a CGI script that I thought was going to be simpler. Silly bear!

And the federal tax refund check arrived. Now I just have to find time to get to the bank. Probably tomorrow.

Thanks to Andrew and Kash, who hauled off half a tonne of paper and e-waste from the shed and the garage attic. The e-waste paid for the day's work. There's more, but it's a lot better than it was.

I got what appears to have been a heads-up about being pre-diabetic: a distinct, strong physical reaction to sugar. I mean, a handful of prunes? A bowl of strawberries? OK, I get it now.

Some good (and occasionally scary) links under the cut.

Comments

[jenk]

If the doc is talking pre-diabetes, have you had a glucose tolerance test? It's time consuming, but I have sufficient family history that I've been sent for it due to wonky blood sugar symptoms. (Turned out that the real problem was I didn't want to bother cooking or even deciding what to eat and so I wouldn't eat for 2 days and ... not good. Anyway.) As tests go it's not bad - drink a super-sweet drink, then get blood drawn every 15 minutes for an hour or so, then half hour for another hour. It lets them chart how your body manages sugar.

[mdlbear]

Had one several years ago; I was fine then. It was my fasting glucose level that had the doc worried; he told me to lose weight. Working on it.