Truck in for Repairs...



A new day got started and since my truck is in the shop being worked on I will need to take CI to work and use her car for the day.  My first order of business was to fill up the gas tank and get her to work.

I worked on Ebay this morning putting in a couple more cards to be sold.  I have one that is sold and will be done on Friday.  Depending on when he pays the money I may try to get it in the mail today.  I have been working on putting a couple of cards on the site every day so I will have something to work on, on a daily basis.

I headed over to the college for my database management class.  I worked on the computer in the lab on our database project and worked on the forms.  We have three weeks to complete this project and hopefully we will meet the deadline.  The members of the group I belong with have four of us working together. 

After the class I rushed home since the delivery truck was going to bring our new couch and loveseat between two and six this afternoon.  They arrived at 3:30 and I was then able to go and pickup CI from work and also stop by Subway and pick up my sandwich.  This makes five days in a row and my Blood Glucose numbers are dropping so I will continue on with my sandwich per day.  I don’t know if I could eat two of them in the day but will continue to eat the 6” Roast Beef for now.

I received a call from the automotive shop and it is going to cost about $1600 to $2000 to get my truck done.  I am having brakes, axel boots, and some other things done that have been needed to be done for some time now and since the tax return is enough to cover this is where it is going to go.  I should have my truck back tomorrow morning.

Our grandson had a concert at his grade school this evening so we went and watched him and his classmates perform.  We were back, at the house, about an hour later and I worked on getting my insulin pump and sensor changed over.  It was time to switch the sensor to a new location.  I am not having any issues with the sensor and like seeing if my Blood Sugars are on their way up or if I am dropping.  I think this will let me have better control.

Have a fun day.....

Just Flat out Cold....

I got the garbage to the side of the road for pick up this morning.  This was a blue day which means the recycle bin goes out as well.  It is usually full of broken down boxes and we are working on shredding all of the paper we have in the box in the office.  We now have about 2/3’s left to do. 

I headed off to my college class today and decided to ride the bus transit system.  It saves me gas and it only takes about thirty minutes of my time so I figure saving gas is a good thing.  I tend to see the same people riding the bus and even though no one talks to each other we just ride in quiet.

The instructor is discussing SQL and how to use the language in making our tables and pulling out reports.  We have three weeks left in the quarter and then I will be done with my certification and then get to go out and try to find a job.  I know this will not be easy with my age but will at least try.

I ate my lunch at Subway again.  This makes the fourth day in a row eating this sandwich.  I figure if I get a string of days going I won’t want to break it and maybe that will help the end result.  I got on the scale this morning and I haven’t moved off of 245 lbs.  If it wasn’t so cold outside I could walk around the block.  I would like to find a bike and go down to the river and ride on the trail this spring.

This evening was our night out at the tavern to watch our friends play darts in their dart league and we sit and visit and eat dinner.  I had some chicken pieces and onion rings.  They also make a good grilled cheese sandwich.  Watching our friends play darts is fun as they try to explain the game to us as they are going through their five games.

I sent my loaner insulin pump back to Medtronic’s today.  It is nice to get it out of the house and on its way back to the company.   It was nice to have the loaner available while waiting for the training to take place on the 530G and the Enlite Sensor. 

After everything was done today I dropped off my pick-up to be worked on at the repair shop.  I have my list and I hope they are able to get most of it completed with the amount of money available from our income tax return.

I ended the night watching the Commerce Casino streaming online.  I like to watch the poker tournament players and what they do during the tournament.  They do not have announcers and that would be a big help but at least I can watch the game and I try to figure out what cards the players have and what each one should do with their hand.  It gets me involved in the hands. 

Have a fun day….



Hump day...

Another day and I woke up with my mask on my face.  I have sleep apnea as well so I have my CPAP machine with me whenever I sleep.  I have gotten far better sleep now than what I used to get.  I was told that when I went through the testing that I was having apnea 113 times per hour with the longest up to 90 seconds long.  Not good if you are trying to stay alive.  Yes, I am overweight, I am in the mid 200’s and I am trying to lose some of this weight just to feel and look better.  I hate diets and if I just change my lifestyle of eating the proper foods it would be better.  I feel jealous sometimes when I see things on TV where someone has been given the chance to be better and I can’t seem to get to that point.  I know it is being responsible to someone to get this done.  I need to do this for myself, if nothing else, but it just doesn’t happen.

I went to the college this morning and spent time working on the computer on our Database project.  It seems to be going well at this point.  So much more work to do in three weeks before we need to turn this in to the instructor.  I am working on the forms and queries at this point.

Visited my Dad as well and he has been throwing up around breakfast time.  We think it might be the coffee he is drinking.  Could be combination of pills and coffee?  I told him to stop drinking the coffee and we will see if it makes any difference. 

My son dropped by this morning and we moved the couch into the other room getting ready for tomorrow when the new couch and loveseat will be delivered.  That will be nice to have the new furniture in our living room.

This was my third day in a row eating at Subway.  I don’t mind eating the same sandwich at this point.  I should try and expand the sandwich to dinner time as well and see if it makes a difference.  My Blood Sugars have been doing well this week so far with what I have been eating.  I received an email message to check my medical portal and see what my new A1c is.  I was not pleased to see my new A1c is at 10.  So within the last nine months I have gone from an A1c of 8.3, 9.4, and now 10.  It is such a struggle for me to find my answers.

Have a fun day…..



Mondays are rough...



Waking up Monday morning and the weather outside is cold.  We were supposed to have snow in the area and we did not get it.  The temperature has dipped back into the 30’s and that means I will have to wear my warmer jacket again.

I have been working on Ebay again selling sports cards.  I used to do this, years ago, and I decided to try this again.  There are so many special cards that if you find the right one in the pack you can make a little bit of money.  The only problem I have is trying to make money after it is sold.  Ebay, Paypal and USPS all want a piece of the pie.  You have to allow for all of that when I try to sell the product.  Right now I have five cards on the site and one of them is sold.  If I put one or two on the site every few days I will keep busy watching and finding new cards to sell.

I headed off to the bus transfer station to catch the bus over to the college.  I have been riding the bus to the college for the year and it has saved me quite a bit of gas money.  It only adds a total of thirty minutes to my day total and that is not bad.  Especially now in the winter and I don’t have to worry about the weather other than getting to the transfer station.

On my way back to the house I stopped by our local Fred Meyer and picked up some groceries and some more baseball and football cards.  You never know when you will find that lucky card.  I then went straight over to the subway store and picked up my roast beef sandwich.  This is my second day in a row eating this sandwich and it is good.  I always wish subway would put a little more meat in the sandwich. 

My Blood Sugars have been steadily dropping to an acceptable level and as long as I am diligent about not eating the Carbs I will be alright.  It is so hard to get away from them on a daily basis. 

We finished watching “The House of Cards” and will have to wait until the next season to continue watching this great show.  It gets our attention and we watched two to three episodes per night and now we have to wait like everyone else.

I have been working on the Database Management class and we are working on the quarter project.  There are four in my group and we have four weeks to finish building this database.  I wouldn’t mind doing this as a job when finished with the program.

Called my Dad and he is back to throwing up again.  It just doesn’t make sense and he has been cleared by the doctors saying nothing is wrong in the GI area.  I will be sending an email to the doctor again about this issue and see what he says.  He lives in an Assisted Living place and the nurses do a great job watching him.

Have a fun day……

Here we go again....

I started the blog in 2005 and I wrote mainly about my trading stocks and poker experiences.  At the beginning of this year I tried to access the blog and found out that I was unable to get in no matter what I tried.  Google had taken over my access and I just couldn’t get it back.  I was frustrated and decided to give up writing about my experiences since I lost everything.  Now that three months have gone by I decided to try writing again and this time I won’t be so narrow in what I write about.  This blog will be about my journey, dreams, poker and my fight with diabetes.

Diabetes has taken up quite a bit of me and I need to put in writing what I am doing about this.  This started a number of years ago and progressed from taking medication to having to give myself seven shots per day.  At that time I started on the insulin pump and it has been four years now.  This past week I have a new pump called the 530G with Medtronics and this one has the sensor that will monitor the trend of where my Blood Sugars are going.  I still have to prick my finger to see what my Blood Sugars are but now I can watch and trend the sensor as well.

I got myself up Sunday morning and for the past year I have been getting on the computer to put in my unemployment claim.  I have four weeks left of my retraining and then try and enter the work force.  I have been working on the certificate for Customer Support Help Desk in Computer Science.

I follow a number of blogs, and one of them is a travel blog, and he has been working on his weight.  He has been eating a Subway sandwich for lunch and dinner almost every day.  I need to try something new with my weight loss efforts and so I will try and eat a subway sandwich for lunch and if it works I will continue eating a sandwich for lunch.  Being diabetic and watching the carbs will be my issue.  We will see where it goes.

We went to the furniture store in the afternoon and we found a couch and loveseat that we liked.  At least it fit me when I sat down.  Most couches are long in the seating area and I tend to dangle my feet and it is uncomfortable for me.  This couch does not do that to me.  It will be delivered on Thursday this week.  We have not purchased new furniture in quite some time. 

Have a fun day…..