One is brown and one is almost black. Is the brown one just dry and the other one black and still wet. Will it dry off and look brown when it dries? Or are they different types of sea lions?

The brown one was dry and had been laying on the dock for a while. The other just hopped up on the dock before I took their picture.

8:30pm and the storm finally hit with some wind, rain, and small hail. No more spinners. Just hope it don't blow no big limbs out of the cottonwood tree.

Hehe :D

Good morning all. We survived the rain and winds with no problems at all except some muddy footprints from the four legged kids.

Lots of rain in some areas, and it will all head down river to the Mississippi, and add to the flooding they have. A few local roads and farm houses are flooded. THe major rain missed the main metro area so we got lucky with that.

Would say the ditch they filled to replace the water line in is about as settled as that dirt is going to get!

Good thing I finally got the rototiller back so can easily level it off. Now if it just dries out enough I can use it.

OK, I am not a people person but some I dislike with extreme prejudice. Stop moving files around!

Speaking of moving files around.....

My main computer is still choking along on step 4 of 15 on the same project. 8 days and counting, non stop, the CPU at 100% most of the time, and the memory at 99% usage of the 32 Gig. The hard drive is a SSD, and is always banging away at 50% to 100% Maybe by Thursday it will be finished the first 1/3 of the project and I can be at a safe places to stop processing, and restart the computer. I need to take this project to my business partners house and use one of the 7 computers he has over there. Hopefully the one with the i8 and 64 gig of ram.

Anyway, I had to carefully copy the QuickBooks data files off, and put a copy on my laptop, and run QuickBooks on the laptop. I had some business that had to get done. Using a laptop with tiny fonts is a challenge after doing it on my 27 inch high res monitor.

Just great, doc told me to contact and talk to a disability lawyer.

Wtf?

Disability don't pay enough for someone to live on.

Am getting neuropathy complications that goes along with the diabetes from that MRSA infection when I stepped on the nail.

Effecting feet, legs, hands, thinking, balance, ability to hold bodily functions.

At first it was my feet and the ability to rock my foot sideways to heel and toe. Now have to really pay attention when driving an automatic to actualy hit the gas, or keep my foot on the brake stopped. Also have stopped walking pepper becuase it is too easy to trip or lose my balance and fall. It feels like I am wearing tight leather knee socks whether I am or not.

My hands now feel like my skin is a leather glove. They feel cold and at night feel like pins and needles. Also not able to touch type, have to look at the keys and still use the delete key A LOT. Also losing dexterity, can't cross fingers or make the vulcan sign with my right hand. This has been amplified by having to use the PC with more typing and clicking and dragging to do the same tasks with the same programs as on the Mac.

Noticed am having trouble thinking of words. The drugs doc gave me for the neuropathy have a side effect of short term memory loss.

Notice I grab thinga to keep from falling over when doing things around the house when standing up. Sometimes feel like I am falling over backwards but haven't actually fallen yet.

The reason I work from home is to be close to the facilities, but still not able to make it at least a couple times a week and have to change clothes, take a shower, and do a load of laundry. Really do NOT want to have to start wearing diapers. If go someplace like to have lunch with Glen, or a meeting or something at work, take some Imodium so will not have an embarrassing incident.

If I hadn't been going to that retinal speciallist I would also be blind.

Oh yeah, getting tinnitus too.

Richard, that all sucks. Some of it is self induced. Stop smoking NOW. Also stop eating cookies and candy and drinking Coke with sugar. You are diabetic, sugar is bad for you. Cigarettes are bad for you.

You know all those things. It is hard to eat only the right things, but if you want to live, stop consuming sugar in any form. And stop smoking.

I am really sorry for your health issues, but dang it man, stop with the poison.

When you eat sugar your body makes insulin to keep it from raising your blood sugar too high. EVERYTHING you eat raises your blood sugar, it's how food works. Everything also takes a different amount of time to turn into blood sugar, and your body makes blood sugar from fat, etc. as well. And everyone one's system is different as to what food make how much sugar and for how long.

I have two insulns I inject. One is long term and manages what your body creates and the slower digesting foods. It is slow to have any effect and lasts a long time, 12 hours or more. However it can also cause low blood sugar problems. For example: if I skip a meal or during the night if i did not eat enough food that takes longer to digest. My blood sugar varies from 80 to 140 when I first wake up in the mornings. And sometimes I wake in the night very dizzy with cold sweats from low blood sugar and it is only 50. And sometime in the mornings my sugar is normal, but am sweety and know by sugar dropped during the night. That is why I am training Pepper to wake me when it gets to 70. (she is doing great btw, has woke me 8 times now, and I have no woken up sweaty).

The second is a short term insulin that lasts about two hours at the most. It is injected 10 to 15 minutes before you eat. How much you inject is dependent on how much you expect to eat. Too much and you go low, not enough and your blood sugar goes high. This is necessary to keep sugsrs down right after meals because the long acting doesn't lower eating spikes. The side effect of the short term insulin is it converts the sugar to fat. I gained a LOT of weight before they added a pill taken daily that helps to keep the short term insulin from making fat. Is sucks that my doctor did not add this until I gained 75 lbs. Have lost 15lbs.

When first started shooting up tracked my intake of food and insulins and used a LOT of blood test strips to see what happened to my blood sugars. I did this so I could better gauge not only the amounts if what I had to eat to counteract the long term insulin, but also the amount of short term insulin to take before eating and how much of what I could eat.

For example when I visited my friends in Austin they did not eat on any sort of schedule. I kept a coke in the fridge and candy so I could keep my blood sugar from dropping when they ate much later than my normal times. Did not want to eat anything that effected my blood sugar longer because they might decide to go out and eat someplace and I wanted to be able to go eat without taking a whole lot short term insulin to keep my sugar down.

As far as eating sugars, I have done very well. My A1C measurements have been between 6.3 and 6.5. Normal is 5.7. but anything under 8 is considered under control.

Talking to my doctor about my complications he tells me they are NOT normal for a diabetic with my A1C level and that I should be doing well. Especially since I have no liver or kidney problems. Says my complications have to do with blood vessels/nerves and he thinks are related to that MRSA infection in my blood from that nail.

Richard, it is simple, Sugar is bad for everyone, but really extra bad pookie for diabetics. It causes a huge spike in blood sugar. Injected Insulin is not a way to compensate for a big does of sugar. Avoid the massive swing by eating other foods. And no doctor since the advertising of the 1950s and 60 recommends smoking. They will 100% say stop smoking.

Talk to any medical professional and they will tell you sugar is something to avoid, unless you dosed with too much insulin, and need some blood sugar rise to stay alive.

You can try to use any excuse you want to justify it to yourself. In the end it is your life, live it your way. You will never convince me or any other medical professional that sugared cola or cookies and candy is safe to eat for a diabetic.

I will remain your friend, and continue to let you do it your way and not argue about it. It is as pointless as PARF.

Morning/afternoon all. On site and the net came up so here I m for now...............

I had to come in for staff meetings today and tomorrow. I get to be here at 6:30 and there are three meetings per day. At least I only have to attend one full one and present briefly on the other 5.

Glen, it all depends on the person and activity levels and a bunch of other contributing factors. I have a throwback Mountain Dew now and then and have multiple fruit everyday and sometimes ice cream or Bavarian cream filed donuts. Diet drinks are out, they are really hard on you and aren't any better (for my family anyway) in controlling blood glucose levels as it can mess with your gut fauna and your liver. The biggest thing is moderation. Muay Thai helps, as does drumming or any other activity that gets you sweating.

Smoking on the other hand, for anyone, is bad.

I drank a lot of surgery soda as a kid. At about age 40 I changed to diet soda for a while, and quite even that several years ago. I eat a lot of fruit, and almost all fruit has sugar in it, but not refined sugar. But like eating a dinner roll, it all turns to sugar eventually. At least with real fruit, I get the nutrition and fiber of fruit. I drink a lot of water. At restaurants I order tea, just unsweetened tea or coffee at breakfast. I am a long way from a model of healthy eating and no doubt a fat boy and I am struggling to drop weight.

I have no day to day pain at all. I am in good enough health to mow the yard and spend two hours doing the yard work. I can spend all day at the autocross and walk miles with no discomfort.

I know many people my age with all sorts of health issues. My wife is always telling me of her lady friend's in the same age bracket as us with husbands with bad health, or even death.

Diet soda, or anyrhing with fake sweeteners spikes my sugar way more than sugar, as does some white flour breads or white rice. Some fruits are okay, others are horrible. Like I said, have done a lot of blood sugar testing. It's not just sugar, it's what it is eaten with as well.

It's about carbs as much as it is sugars so no alcohol ie beer.

We got lucky today.

Our alarm system has motion detectors and they are powered by the CR123 batteries. The main alarm system is of course on the house electric system with a battery backup. Anyway, at 9:30 AM or so, the system alerted us that one of the detectors had a low battery. During the day time awake hours! I thought those were like smoke detectors, and only went off at 3:00 AM or so. This one must be defective to have gone off in the middle of the work day. I suspect the real reason it went off is it is one that is normally sold to people that work the graveyard shift and only sleep in the day.

The sensors for the garage doors are battery operated as well. I think most everything else is wired in. My system sends me an text message and an email that a sensor has failed, and what sensor, and as soon as I try to remove it to change the battery it alert me that it is being tampered with, and as I replace it, another tamper alert. I finally got everything back to normal. I keep the CR123s in stock as my weather station uses them as well.