Finished bleeding, nurse found a vein on the first stab but it wasn’t particularly giving and she had to wiggle the needle around to coax a full sample.
Just got to wait 7-10 days now to find out how I’ve done for the last 6 months.
Monthly Archives: September 2008
HbA1c test
This is a good description of the test I’m due tomorrow. From the article,
In the blood stream are the red blood cells, which are made of a molecule, haemoglobin. Glucose sticks to the haemoglobin to make a ‘glycosylated haemoglobin’ molecule, called haemoglobin A1C or HbA1C. The more glucose in the blood, the more haemoglobin A1C or HbA1C will be present in the blood.
Red cells live for 8 -12 weeks before they are replaced. By measuring the HbA1C it can tell you how high your blood glucose has been on average over the last 8-12 weeks. A normal non-diabetic HbA1C is 3.5-5.5%. In diabetes about 6.5% is good.
One line movie reviews meets Twitter
I just realised that my one line movie review site (here) is exactly the kind of thing that would make sense on twitter, short movie reviews kept to a specific size (although I’m pretty sure plenty of mine on the site are over 140 characters). So there’s one use for twitter I can understand.
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Crazy Linkage FTW!
So I signed up to Twitter (yeh yeh) and connected it to my facebook status thingy and added a wordpress plugin thingy so it’s even harder to hide from my random crap.
Twitter updates in the sidebar on the right, I promise not to just tell you what I’m eating for dinner, and I’ll try and refrain from updating twitter every time I blog, but for this one I wanted to check how it works.
I suck at ski jumping
I’ve put up a page with my Wii Fit high scores which you can get to from the navigation in the top left. As the page says, I know a couple of people now with Wii Fit’s and since there’s way that I can find native to the game of sharing high scores, I’ve started my own little page. Hopefully this will either inspire my friends to greater feats of ball dodging or make them laugh so hard at their obvious superiority that they’ll lose calories in an instant.
Enjoy.
(oh and yay me, over 500 posts)
Comments
Firstly, thanks for the comments, while I blog mainly for myself it’s nice to know people read the posts and feel they’re worthy of commenting. I do enjoy the feedback obviously.
With blogspot, I *think* you guys got a notification, or had the choice? to get a notification when your comment was approved and/or if it was replied to.
With WordPress out of the box, I don’t think you get that. I’ve been looking and looking at comment plugins but can’t find a small unobtrusive supported plugin which gives that functionality, so if you do comment on a post, for now I think you’ll just need to check it every now and then to see if I’ve replied, or if anyone else replied.
Edit: There’s also the recent comments widget on the sidebar, so you can see if someone’s commented and you can subscribe to the specific comment rss feed too I guess, which might be useful if you want to track comment updates.
You rang?
Click to see in it’s original glory and to spend the rest of the day browsing the other strips.
It hurts!
Actually, it doesn’t hurt as badly as I thought it would, maybe the Yoga is paying off.
Today : taking all our stuff to the recycling centre / skip place, probably 3 trips (this car isn’t as big as the Mondeo which would have made it in one).
And that means we have to get the cardboard boxes back out of the little shed … where they’ve been overnight … and put them in the car. Let’s hope the squirrel spiders haven’t moved back in yet.
I agree with Wil Wheaton
http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbackup/2008/09/never-forget-yo.html
D&D and tabletop roleplaying (Cthulhu, Warhammer FRP) formed some of the happiest moments of my pre-university and post-university life.
That is all.
Goosebumps
If this image doesn’t give you goosebumps, well, I’m not sure what to say.