The weekend goes so quickly, especially when you’re doing nothing but lounging around playing computer games 😉
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It’s Friday!
And I need it to end as soon as possible. Or at least, I need it to get to 4:30pm as soon as possible.
What I need is a little device that compresses the hours between 8:30am and 4:30pm, and then expands the time between 4:30pm and 8:30am. It wouldn’t be cheating that badly, I mean it’s not like I’d be travelling through time or anything crazy. I just need to bend time a little bit.
Ugh second day back!
Second day back at work after just over a week off, and all ready I need a holiday! Cliche or not it’s true. Mind you, at the end of my holiday I was ready to get back to work (and Grete was ready for me to come back too!). Couple of weeks off in October which I’m looking forward to, hopefully we’ll get out of the house a bit more during that break and perhaps go and see something!
The number of people inviting me to Facebook finally reached critical mass and I couldn’t resist any longer, I’m still oddly cautious about being ‘me’ on the ‘net rather than some supposedly anonymous entity but I guess the illusion of privacy is just that, an illusion. Anyway within a few hours of being on facebook I’d got back in contact with a couple of people from Uni so I think the benefits outweigh the issues, certainly for me.
May get another one in before the end
Two posts in the same month – it’s nearly unheard of. Went to see Pirates of the Caribbean 3 with a bunch of friends last weekend, I’ll write a full review soon. Here’s a summary – too long, not exciting enough, last 30 minutes was excellent. Spent the last weekend (as well as watching Pirates) with a bunch of friends from our Everquest guild which was fun, even though the weather tried to ruin it for us. In typical British style we ignored the freezing cold and the rain and sat outside eating food and drinking drink. It was good and hopefully we’ll be doing it again later in the year.
I finally caved in a bought a new phone as well, still on pay-as-you-go, but at least it’s a modern phone rather than the house brick I used to carry a few years back and which has been sitting next to my desk as an alarm clock for a while. The new phone is a Nokia, and I’d show you how it looks but you can’t take pictures of your own phone with your own phone, usually. If you know me, I probably already sent you the new number, if you don’t know me, you didn’t get it. If you know me and didn’t get it, drop me a note, I’m not ignoring you I swear.
Oh, and the car is booked in for an MOT next week … wish us luck.
And so here we are again
Considering it’s been 6 or 7 months since I last blogged anything, I can’t believe anyone is still reading this (in fact, I can’t believe anyone was ever reading this) so I wonder why I’m still writing it. I’m still Diabetic, I know it never goes away, but everyone has to have a dream. Had good news earlier in the year, my 3 month average blood sugar test was excellent. The bad news is that every day between 3 month checks just leaves me worrying about it and the further I get from the last check the more I worry.
Perhaps that’s good, if I stop worrying I guess I’ll stop trying to manage it, although I don’t think I’m any good at managing it anyway. I have good days and weeks and bad days and weeks. Working from home is bad, it ruins the routine, working from the office is good, the routine helps and I manage to get out every lunch for a 20 minute walk which can’t be hurting. Some days I think I’ve been good and it’s bad, some days I think I’ve been bad and it’s good, and some days I try not to think about how bad I’ve been.
I just wish I didn’t spend most of every day scared of the consequences of being diabetic, worried about every ‘symptom’ I currently have. But then it’s always been my nature to worry.
One of the reasons I’ve started blogging again is I finally migrated to Google’s new blogging feature and that includes labels, something I’d wanted to have on my review page for a while. I thought I’d bring the review site up-to-date and that led to blogging something here first.
House news, thanks to my amazing wife, we finally got someone to come and look at the ‘damp’ in the dining room. It’s not damp, and much to our embarassment, the guy pointed to a hole in the wall between the door frame and the brickwork. Every time it rained, water had been running in, and rotting the wood, floorboard, etc. So we filled the hole and we’re letting the woodwork dry out, and we’ll full that with woodfiller soon. We’ve finally made a move on the front door as well, double glazing folk have been, we’ve had the phone wire moved, and they’re coming to replace the door next week. Hopefully it’ll look ok, I have no faith in double glazing companies, but fingers crossed it’ll be good enough.
Here’s the bit where I make a vague promise (but I’m not sure who to?) to update this more often.
HOLIDAY!
Yay, 9 days without work. Relaxation-ville here I come baby.
two days to go
Only two days to go until I’m on holiday for 9 straight days including weekends; and I need it. I covered for my team leader last week (major stress) and I’m on call this week (minor stress) and I need a break. Of course, a break means going to bed late, getting up early and playing too many computer games, but still, it’s a break of sorts.
I’m still chugging through the Harry Dresden books (by Jim Butcher), they’re slowing and getting a little samey but hey, I’ve read 5 or 6 of them in about 3 weeks so what can I expect. At least I’m reading again which has to be a good sign?
Right, shorter entry than I was going to write, because it’s late and I’m tired and I really should try and get some sleep (which translates to it’s late, I’m tired and I’m going to go and read another 3 or 5 chapters before bed).
Perhaps one day I may write a few …
Frustrating day
I’m trying to stick to being good about the diabetes, I really am. But it’s getting frustrating. So I had four slices of toast at the weekend and my blood sugar was over nine mg/l two hours later. Ok, I get that bread is bad. Today I thought I’d try harder, was pretty high after breakfast but under 9, wasn’t too bad after lunch, was pretty good when I got home. Felt like I was making progress. Had tea, went for a walk, out of the house for nearly an hour. Got around to checking it again at 10:40pm, and it’s over 8 mg/l 🙁 Four hours after I ate, and it’s well above what it should be even two hours after I ate. I don’t get it, and not getting it makes it very frustrating. Also, I’m feeling really hungry and basically with my blood sugar that high I shouldn’t really eat anything to give it a chance to drop before I go to bed.
Anyway, the walk was nice, we wandered along the canal (pictured left) which is about 800 metres from where we live. It looks nice most of the time, plenty of wildlife which I think is good considering it’s right next to a main road and a school. We were passed by a narrow-boat while we were feeding the wildlife (pictured belowI think). The swans, ducks and other stuff seems pretty well trained to come to people and beg for bread. The big swan you see actually swam up and started hissing until we fed it, so someone’s trained it to beg I guess. Still, at least they’re not struggling to survive against the toxins in the water like they may have been a few years ago.
It was a relaxing walk I thought, and I’d hoped it would go some way to helping with blood sugar. Perhaps we walked too soon after we’d eaten? Ah well, just have to see how tomorrow goes I guess. My fingers are sore from all the testing I did today, and I’ll just have to do the same tomorrow.
Tired omg
Decided to try reading. Got 3/4 of the way through Storm Front by Jim Butcher. Reminds me a lot of the Dirk Gently stuff by Douglas Adams (which I loved). Jim’s stuff looks very entertaining, easy to read, fun and kept my attention (until far too late into the night). I would have included a cover image but it’s a pretty boring cover. Enjoying it so far, really must try and read before I go to bed though rather than after 😉 I’ll write a full review when I’m finished.
Trolls and Friends!
Fiona’s visiting at the moment, she’s lovely and we love her. We went bowling on Monday night (was fun), Andy popped over and visited last night and we were knackered this evening so ate and watched The Princess Bride on dvd. Fiona is crazy enough to cook for us when she visits so we had pasta bake tonight before watching the dvd. She also brought us a gift (she’s too kind!) which we both totally LOVE! So as you can see from the picture, our garden is now the proud owner of a troll protector!
He weighs about like 2 tonnes, and we carried him from the road to the bottom of the garden next to the shed (so he has somewhere to go if it gets too warm). Bubbles did try to make friends, but I missed that photo opportunity, so instead I ‘placed’ her in front of the troll and took another shot, you can’t tell she’s been placed 😉