Let me start off by saying that apparently writing a blog and posting it is two different things. I wrote that last blog about how smart Mark was last week while he was still here, but didn’t realize that I hadn’t posted it.
This week I started doing my Turbulance Training (TT) program once again. This time I’m going to stay with it for the full six months – I hope. In the past it seems like I get sick and stop doing them around the 4th month or so pretty regularly. I’m hoping that the silver water and the allergy medicine will help me finish the series this time. Actually once I would have finished it, but I got towards the end and decided that it wasn’t good enough for me so I stopped TT and tried something else, then I got sick.
I had been exercising for a while, but all I’ve been doing was exercise bike riding, planks and push up. However, apparently that doesn’t help your quads when you start doing body weight squats. So my legs are mad at me.
I started on Monday and did the first days exercises, then I was so tired that I had a hard time even getting up on Tuesday and Wednesday. I did exercise again yesterday, but not all the sets, then today on Friday my legs were once again shot. I should start getting my endurance built up so that I can exercise more.
My BG was below 120 this whole week, after Sunday that is. It’s pretty apparent that exercise helps me keep the BG low, so as I get more endurance and can exercise harder I hope that I can get it even lower. Oh yeah and I hope that I lose weight because that helps keep the BG down as well.
Friday, April 22, 2011
Teda's Mark is Very Smart
And so is Chantel. Everyone is very smart around here but me, and I've got the proof.
I wanted to finish up the front cement stones that we'd made. Mark, Teda and I finished them last year after the Balloon Fiesta and before I could finish them up I got pneumonia and didn't finish them. The new stones that we made were a little lower than the old ones, and Karen says that she trips on them. We had a little bit of the sand and cement mix that we had used to set the stones on our patio left over that I wanted to use to raise the stones up. Since it was cement we couldn't leave it out in the rain or it'd get ruined so I stuck it in the garage. I'd hoped that it was only going to be a few days because once it was in there we couldn't get to hardly anything in the garage. Unfortunately, as I said, I got pneumonia so I wasn't able to move the cement sand mix and it was in the wheelbarrow so the garage was pretty much off limits.
Anyway, today I decided to raise the steps. I did mention that it's been about 5 months since we made the stones and didn't fill in the gaps with sand? Now the gaps were filled with leaves and stuff, so when I raised the stones that I needed to I was cleaning out the leaves and stuff, and that was taking some time. After I used up the stone and cement mix I decided to get some more sand and try and finish the rest of all the stones and sand. Goose showed and started helping me. Goose said that the leaves and stuff between the stones was her definition of "detritus" was the leaves and stuff between the stones. It was pretty funny because Goose probably pronounced it the way it's supposed to be pronounced but it wasn't the way that I thought it was supposed to be pronounced. Of course in my mind I generally just say things in my mind, and when I hear them pronounced out loud I'm surprised. Shortly after that we were talking about how it would be nice to just blow the leaves out of the rocks, and then we thought, almost at the same time, that we had a blower that could blow the leaves out. So we grabbed it and in about 45 minutes we were done. Goose is really smart.
I then started pouring the sand in the cracks by hand the way we did on the patio, and sweeping the sand into the cracks. The patio was not that big and the stones were a lot bigger so it didn't take that long to finish the patio. The stones were taking a lot longer, and I was wondering if we were going to have to finish it the next day, when Mark comes out and says why don't you just pour the sand on the stones then sweep them in the cracks! I didn't think it would work, but it did, it worked great. We got done in about a half an hour. Mark is very smart.
And here is the final proof. Mom and Goose went to a play tonight and when they came home really late and made us all go outside to look at something, and it turns out that I'd decided it would be a good idea to hang my keys on the trucks antenna. I don't have any idea why I decided to do that but you have to admit that it's not that smart of a thing todo. It's going to take a while to live this one down. Mom's already said that it goes right up there next to the time I left my tooth brush in the refrigerator.
There that proves it. I don't have good ideas, like Mark and Goose, but I do put my keys and toothbrushes in strange places.
I wanted to finish up the front cement stones that we'd made. Mark, Teda and I finished them last year after the Balloon Fiesta and before I could finish them up I got pneumonia and didn't finish them. The new stones that we made were a little lower than the old ones, and Karen says that she trips on them. We had a little bit of the sand and cement mix that we had used to set the stones on our patio left over that I wanted to use to raise the stones up. Since it was cement we couldn't leave it out in the rain or it'd get ruined so I stuck it in the garage. I'd hoped that it was only going to be a few days because once it was in there we couldn't get to hardly anything in the garage. Unfortunately, as I said, I got pneumonia so I wasn't able to move the cement sand mix and it was in the wheelbarrow so the garage was pretty much off limits.
Anyway, today I decided to raise the steps. I did mention that it's been about 5 months since we made the stones and didn't fill in the gaps with sand? Now the gaps were filled with leaves and stuff, so when I raised the stones that I needed to I was cleaning out the leaves and stuff, and that was taking some time. After I used up the stone and cement mix I decided to get some more sand and try and finish the rest of all the stones and sand. Goose showed and started helping me. Goose said that the leaves and stuff between the stones was her definition of "detritus" was the leaves and stuff between the stones. It was pretty funny because Goose probably pronounced it the way it's supposed to be pronounced but it wasn't the way that I thought it was supposed to be pronounced. Of course in my mind I generally just say things in my mind, and when I hear them pronounced out loud I'm surprised. Shortly after that we were talking about how it would be nice to just blow the leaves out of the rocks, and then we thought, almost at the same time, that we had a blower that could blow the leaves out. So we grabbed it and in about 45 minutes we were done. Goose is really smart.
I then started pouring the sand in the cracks by hand the way we did on the patio, and sweeping the sand into the cracks. The patio was not that big and the stones were a lot bigger so it didn't take that long to finish the patio. The stones were taking a lot longer, and I was wondering if we were going to have to finish it the next day, when Mark comes out and says why don't you just pour the sand on the stones then sweep them in the cracks! I didn't think it would work, but it did, it worked great. We got done in about a half an hour. Mark is very smart.
And here is the final proof. Mom and Goose went to a play tonight and when they came home really late and made us all go outside to look at something, and it turns out that I'd decided it would be a good idea to hang my keys on the trucks antenna. I don't have any idea why I decided to do that but you have to admit that it's not that smart of a thing todo. It's going to take a while to live this one down. Mom's already said that it goes right up there next to the time I left my tooth brush in the refrigerator.
There that proves it. I don't have good ideas, like Mark and Goose, but I do put my keys and toothbrushes in strange places.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Diet Update and more Colloidal Silver
I hate that diet sems to be the thing that I mostly seem to be writing about on here. However, eating is something that we all have to do and when you have diabetes diet becomes even more critical.
I'm striving to get my blood sugare under control. I seem to be doing pretty good but hopefully I can do better. For a while there I was getting readings below 100 pretty regularly. I then caught a cold, then, apparently have alergies and they kicked up. That was weird because I started coughing on a Friday afternoon at 2:00. I was talking to someone at work when it happened and I thought it was wierd because nothing seemed to cause it. I didn't have a runny nose or anything else, I just started coughing. By that night I could hardly talk and I wasn't able to sleep because when I layed down the coughing got worse. Karen went with me to the doctor the next week and with Karen talking to him they decided that it was probably allergies. That's OK, if that's what it is, because hopefully I'll be able to keep it from turing into an anual case of bronchitus. However, with the possible cold and hay fever making it hard to exercise my BG started getting a little higher.
When I went to the he ran another HbA1c. The first test on 1/25 was 7.6 (171 mg/dl) and this last one on 3/24 was 6.4 (137). That's a pretty good improvement but I was hoping that it was better.
Also I've lost a little wieght, but even more importantly on the scale that Goose gave me that made me fat and stupid it says that I've reduced my body fat percentage by 3%. That pretty good. I've lost about 4 pounds as well. Losing weight can also help me get my BG under control as well. I guess that I'll just have to keep trying the slow and constant method.
I've thought that the HbA1c was an average of 3 months with the last month being a little more influential. My doctor said it gives a reading for the last 2 weeks. I hope that's not right, and since I usually follow what's in the Bernstien book I guess I'll just keep following that. I'm just going to schedule the next test 3 months from now so there won't be any overlap.
I got a rash on my hand that was pretty painful. Iwanlani and Karen said that it was probably exzema. Someone or somewhere I've heard that it is caused by the chickenpox virus. (I thought Nini told me this but she says that she didn't.) I don't know if that true or not, but after a couple of weeks it got worse and was cracked and bleeding. I showed it to Karen for some sypmathy and she asked if I'd poured the silver water accross it. I said that I was going to wash it with the silver water to see if it'd get rid of it. That's wat I did, and by that afternoon it was cracked an bleeding and didn't itch anywhere near as bad. Karen was pretty impressed, and fankly so was I. So fat the silver water seemed to clear up the congestion in my lungs, kept 3 canker sores from getting painful, pretty much a little hole starts in the mought that you know is going to be a canker sore, and the silver water just keeps it there and then it goes aways. Doesn't become a hugh painful crater. Then it seems to have cleard up the rash/exzema on my hand. Not bad. I think the stuff actually works.
I'm striving to get my blood sugare under control. I seem to be doing pretty good but hopefully I can do better. For a while there I was getting readings below 100 pretty regularly. I then caught a cold, then, apparently have alergies and they kicked up. That was weird because I started coughing on a Friday afternoon at 2:00. I was talking to someone at work when it happened and I thought it was wierd because nothing seemed to cause it. I didn't have a runny nose or anything else, I just started coughing. By that night I could hardly talk and I wasn't able to sleep because when I layed down the coughing got worse. Karen went with me to the doctor the next week and with Karen talking to him they decided that it was probably allergies. That's OK, if that's what it is, because hopefully I'll be able to keep it from turing into an anual case of bronchitus. However, with the possible cold and hay fever making it hard to exercise my BG started getting a little higher.
When I went to the he ran another HbA1c. The first test on 1/25 was 7.6 (171 mg/dl) and this last one on 3/24 was 6.4 (137). That's a pretty good improvement but I was hoping that it was better.
Also I've lost a little wieght, but even more importantly on the scale that Goose gave me that made me fat and stupid it says that I've reduced my body fat percentage by 3%. That pretty good. I've lost about 4 pounds as well. Losing weight can also help me get my BG under control as well. I guess that I'll just have to keep trying the slow and constant method.
I've thought that the HbA1c was an average of 3 months with the last month being a little more influential. My doctor said it gives a reading for the last 2 weeks. I hope that's not right, and since I usually follow what's in the Bernstien book I guess I'll just keep following that. I'm just going to schedule the next test 3 months from now so there won't be any overlap.
I got a rash on my hand that was pretty painful. Iwanlani and Karen said that it was probably exzema. Someone or somewhere I've heard that it is caused by the chickenpox virus. (I thought Nini told me this but she says that she didn't.) I don't know if that true or not, but after a couple of weeks it got worse and was cracked and bleeding. I showed it to Karen for some sypmathy and she asked if I'd poured the silver water accross it. I said that I was going to wash it with the silver water to see if it'd get rid of it. That's wat I did, and by that afternoon it was cracked an bleeding and didn't itch anywhere near as bad. Karen was pretty impressed, and fankly so was I. So fat the silver water seemed to clear up the congestion in my lungs, kept 3 canker sores from getting painful, pretty much a little hole starts in the mought that you know is going to be a canker sore, and the silver water just keeps it there and then it goes aways. Doesn't become a hugh painful crater. Then it seems to have cleard up the rash/exzema on my hand. Not bad. I think the stuff actually works.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
My funny Las Vegas experience
I've been in Las Vegas this week for the ISC West. ISC stands for International Security Conference and there is a series of them all over and this is the West one. I suppose it stands for Western US. There are a lot of foreign people here so the International is certainly apropos.
Mom, this week, is visiting the grandkids while I'm in Las Vegas. We'd talked about her coming with me, but she said that she didn't want to stay with a boring person who just came back to the motel and wanted to stay in his room at night (she knows me very well) so she went to visit the grandkids instead. I thought that I wasn't coming on this trip because of the government funding problems, but last Thursday I found out that the trip was back on.
Here's the funny experience. Funny as in "Dad you're an idiot" funny. I made a reservation at a hotel that was 1 mile from the Sands Convention Center called the Holiday Inn LAS VEGAS FLAMINGO AT PARADISE. That's exactly the way it is written on my itinerary. All I saw was FLAMINGO. I'm pretty sure that I saw the Holiday Inn part but I just thought that Holiday Inn must own "The Flamingo" When we got into town I was dropped off by Scott McDuffie at "The Flamingo." After I got dropped off I walked through the hotel casino complex (that's the only word for these things they're immense) and found the check in which had a hugh line which I waited in for half an hour, and then was told I was in the wrong place. The receptionist was nice and gave me a minimal map with the general area where I should go. I take off walking and after I hit a street that I thought should be called Paradise but was Korval, I realized that I was going to need a better map to find where I needed to go. Then I realized I had an iPhone and I was excited. I entered the address, which was 4055 Palos Verdes, and presto a map with directions. I love technology. I've really liked the GPS feature on the iPhone, but never this much. The hotel isn't even actually on FLAMINGO or PARADISE it's just "at," or near those streets. It was a about a mile away from "The Flamingo" and I had to drag my suitcase. I thought it was pretty funny. It would have been fun, maybe, to stay in "The Flamingo" but I think that I actually like this place better. There's not 10 gazillion people every where, and the building isn't designed so that I never want to leave but just stay in one place and eat, drink and gamble there until I leave town.
The spectacle of walking down the strip is pretty overwhelming. I mean the hotels are huge and marvelous. It amazing. I've always been amazed when I've been here and it doesn't ever seem to get less amazing. I've never stayed in Las Vegas just passed through it a couple of times and walked down the strip. I think I once even rode the monorail, which all I remember is that it was boringly slow.
The conference is pretty good. I've been going to classes and only took a little stroll through the exhibition between classes. It was the biggest exhibition that I've ever seen. It was pretty spectacular as well. They actually had a semi in there that was pulling the Bosch mobile presentation set up. I didn't get a chance to see it, but I mean a semi in a convention center! That's pretty good. I'll bet the CES is just amazing. I'd like to go to that someday, especially if I can get work to pay for it.
Mom, this week, is visiting the grandkids while I'm in Las Vegas. We'd talked about her coming with me, but she said that she didn't want to stay with a boring person who just came back to the motel and wanted to stay in his room at night (she knows me very well) so she went to visit the grandkids instead. I thought that I wasn't coming on this trip because of the government funding problems, but last Thursday I found out that the trip was back on.
Here's the funny experience. Funny as in "Dad you're an idiot" funny. I made a reservation at a hotel that was 1 mile from the Sands Convention Center called the Holiday Inn LAS VEGAS FLAMINGO AT PARADISE. That's exactly the way it is written on my itinerary. All I saw was FLAMINGO. I'm pretty sure that I saw the Holiday Inn part but I just thought that Holiday Inn must own "The Flamingo" When we got into town I was dropped off by Scott McDuffie at "The Flamingo." After I got dropped off I walked through the hotel casino complex (that's the only word for these things they're immense) and found the check in which had a hugh line which I waited in for half an hour, and then was told I was in the wrong place. The receptionist was nice and gave me a minimal map with the general area where I should go. I take off walking and after I hit a street that I thought should be called Paradise but was Korval, I realized that I was going to need a better map to find where I needed to go. Then I realized I had an iPhone and I was excited. I entered the address, which was 4055 Palos Verdes, and presto a map with directions. I love technology. I've really liked the GPS feature on the iPhone, but never this much. The hotel isn't even actually on FLAMINGO or PARADISE it's just "at," or near those streets. It was a about a mile away from "The Flamingo" and I had to drag my suitcase. I thought it was pretty funny. It would have been fun, maybe, to stay in "The Flamingo" but I think that I actually like this place better. There's not 10 gazillion people every where, and the building isn't designed so that I never want to leave but just stay in one place and eat, drink and gamble there until I leave town.
The spectacle of walking down the strip is pretty overwhelming. I mean the hotels are huge and marvelous. It amazing. I've always been amazed when I've been here and it doesn't ever seem to get less amazing. I've never stayed in Las Vegas just passed through it a couple of times and walked down the strip. I think I once even rode the monorail, which all I remember is that it was boringly slow.
The conference is pretty good. I've been going to classes and only took a little stroll through the exhibition between classes. It was the biggest exhibition that I've ever seen. It was pretty spectacular as well. They actually had a semi in there that was pulling the Bosch mobile presentation set up. I didn't get a chance to see it, but I mean a semi in a convention center! That's pretty good. I'll bet the CES is just amazing. I'd like to go to that someday, especially if I can get work to pay for it.
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