Monday
Checked in with the Waterway Net on my HAM radio and read some news.
I can’t really go much further without clearing the garage.
As you can see, the garage needs to be sifted.
Got a call from Uncle Paul this morning and I had a bowl of cereal for breakfast. We drove out to Interstate Battery Center and offloaded about 100Lbs of batteries. I tried to deliver some insulation to Southern Seasons, but there was no one at the office. We ended up picking up a sandwich at QT and driving back home with another trip to storage.
She put paper towels under her plant on the buffet, they were soaking wet.
The surface of the buffet is showing water damage from over watering her plants.
We repotted the plant into a larger one that has a tray underneath.
Checked my Sucrose is a little high, 9:35PM @ 143, 11PM @ 146
Tuesday
On my HF radio, there’s a bit of a pileup this morning on the Waterway Net. This is one of the busiest days I can ever remember. I did not hear my uncle Paul. We went to vote early, there was no one else in line so it was a great time to vote.
Checked my Sucrose 01:28 @ 123, 07:38 @ 114. Both of us had a sucrose level of 150 at bedtime yesterday, we did eat a couple snacks while we were watching TV.
She loves to watch the news and to a lesser extent these campaign rallies. It is discouraging at times listening to them accuse everyone but themselves.
I’ve been using the living room as a place to sort through what we’re going to keep, give or toss. On occasion our living room gets so full that our lives are dragged down by the crowded condition of our home.
Our “Serving” Crock Pot heats the table underneath it.
I tried a hot pad underneath with excellent results. The underside of the Crock Pot appliance temperature is virtually identical as the clay pot inside.
(The sides are not insulated, and the pot is flatter than the cylinder ones. The only way that the appliance can get up to temperature is if you wrap it. It doesn’t have enough power to overcome all the heat lost. (The food can end up ~2 hours in the red zone temperature.)
But hey, it’s great as a heated “serving” dish, and that’s what I bought it for. We turn it on at 10AM so that it’s good and warm when we put the cooked food in it.
Dinner today was chicken thighs, veggies and sweet potatoes. Unloaded the van at the storage unit today. Next is to clear the garage out so that it can be used to store the stuff on the floor of the living room. It’s too warm and bright sun, this looks like a job for tomorrow. I didn’t see the compressor in the storage unit, so I bought a new one, it’ll be here tomorrow.
Wednesday
Slept in until 9AM and got me a cup of coffee. Met up with Jon at the Pub and that took up most of the day. Dinner was soup although I am trying to change that meal to something more healthy. I did eat quite a few bit size Almond Joy candy bars that we bought for Halloween Trick-Treat candy. I did write a letter to Jim Jim, I need to write the other two girls too.
10:00PM 141, 01:35 109 ,07:00 101
Thursday
No HF radio today.
Time to clear out the garage, it’s been gaining items for several years.
I pulled all the spare solar panels out of the garage and put them in the van. I also broke down the cardboard boxes of the panels on the roof. (Geez, they are heavy.)
Reloaded NetLimiter on my computer, there are nefarious things being sent to unknown addresses when using acrobat reader. NetLimiter allows me to block specific programs from reaching the Internet. I had a license that expired in June, that license was on my three Dell laptop computers. The eight permanent licenses I bought for Net limiter prior to 2014 apparently don’t include upgrades to the latest version. They’ve gone the way of most of the software on our phones, you are forced to purchase a dated license that has to be renewed every year. Their license portal didn’t recognize my two Toshiba computer licenses at all. I decided to upgrade the Dell licenses to cover all the home computers, that way I only have to remember the one license key. (The five licenses still don’t cover the HAM NUC.) All the previous license purchases are void since they no longer cover upgrades.
Bedtime after eating rice cakes with cream cheese, 139
Friday
Slept in, did not get onto the HAM radio this morning. Didn’t have breakfast either, lunch was leftover chicken breast, mashed taters and veggies. They did pick up the garbage today and the recycling too.
We got a response from the Philippines; this is what is needed. CF has a “Special Occasion” gift that can be used to send support for the new baby each month. We’ll start the gifts on or about the 10th of November. (They keep the gift and the interest until the rollup at the end of the month.) Holiday gifts are kept for more than 30 days, again keeping the accrued interest.
We had leftover chicken, veggies and mashed red potatoes for lunch.
We received 3 of the 5 Super Stacker boxes from EBay.
Saturday
Her kit arrived today. We’ll start to use the memory on the devices. Funny story is that the device only costs $2 more with the supplies. We’ve checked ourselves over 50 times already. (This device costs about 33c per test.) I could NOT find a way to delete her readings from my device, I’ll just have to wait until I get 100 readings.
My sucrose was 117 this morning even after eating candy before bed. One thing we’ve noticed is that our bodies adapt to our diet. Last week when we ate a York mint or a fun size Baby Ruth bar our sucrose would jump up around 150 and stay there for a while. After buying and eating some Halloween candy last week, we noticed our bodies are keeping up with the additional sugar intake. (Probably converting it to fat.) There are other symptoms that are bothersome. We’ve both had a yeast infection/rash in the moist folds of our skin since we started eating the candy.
The doctor recommended changing our diet to a Mediterranean diet. Actually, changing our diet has been an uphill struggle. The tallest hill on changing our diet is learning to cook difficult recipes.
We’ve been eating a medium breakfast, a heavy lunch and a light supper for months. Breakfast has been a bowl of Whole Foods bran cereal with raisins, juice, coffee and a couple hard boiled eggs. Lunch is Chicken, Pork, Fish and occasionally ground beef, beef stew meat or round steak in a casserole. Supper has been a bowl of Progresso soup or a sandwich for months. We both have a sweet tooth and a really bad habit of “Munching” between meals.
Lunch was a bit hectic, but all went well after I actually put water in the steam tray. We had chicken legs, veggies and mashed potatoes. Got outside today after lunch. I received my replacement compressor and put air into the van and the silver Focus. The spare had less than 30PSI in it, it is supposed to be 60PSI. It took a long while to get 60PSI because so much air leaks out when disconnecting the compressor. I really like the old one better, they chose to split the long hose making for leaks.
Sunday
I got up a little early this morning, we forgot to change the clocks. She brought me some coffee and I added a little hot chocolate this morning. I checked in with the Waterway Net, I happened to be first and the sole contact NCC Steve could reach.
I downloaded NetLimiter on my Longitude2 Laptop computer, I have two more to go. Zoom was a pain, apparently the 32bit version was installed and the 64 bit version was not able to uninstall it first.
My glucose was 122@10AM this morning.
Watched the service today and made a backup recording here at home. Linked the service to our website. Warmed up chicken leftovers from yesterday, they were delicious. Set all the clocks back an hour for the end of daylight Savings.
We played Scrabble while we tried to navigate three different conversations. We ended up watching Johnny Carson before heading to bed.