Saw my primary care doctor last Friday (9/23) and all looks pretty good. She drew a full panel of bloodwork, and the key for me is this: my A1c, which was 14 when I was admitted to the hospital on May 18, is down to 6 -- which is basically normal. I'm stoked about this ( Read more... )

Just home from an unscheduled visit to the podiatrist ( Read more... )

That's approximately how long I have been out from work on disability due to my infected, then surgically repaired, foot and recovery. Along the way I have learned to take my diabetes seriously after basically blowing it off for ten years, lost a bit of my right foot, lost a bit (but not as much as I had hoped) of weight, screened essentially all ( Read more... )

I've been keeping folks updated on Facebook, but not here. So a quick and dirty version of why I just spent ten days in Beth Israel ( Read more... )

So, the results of this year's fantasy baseball auction are in, and my snap verdict is that I could have done worse. Not enough base stealing speed, and several players were kept or taken knowing that they'd be unavailable at the start of the season (minimum two weeks); also, the starting pitching needs depth, which can be addressed in free agency ( Read more... )

Do I know (or does anyone out there know) any current law students who will or can be at SDCC and might be interested in participating in the mock trial of the Winter Soldier? Or attorney coaches for same? See this post and the sign up forms in it, if so.

I play fantasy baseball (Rotisserie style) and have for thirty years. I make no secret of it, nor of the fact that we play for money.

In light of NYS AG Eric Schneiderman shutting down DraftKings and FanDuel in NY because he has determined that they are in fact wagering, rather than games of skill, I thought I'd note something I've thought about ( Read more... )

Best episode in years (since The Doctor's Wife). Very glad it was Capaldi, not Matt Smith, who had the speech that pretty much defines the modern Doctor and links him to the past.

AND it had Osgood, our favorite Mary Sue ever.

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Having recently rewatched two classic SF TV series each of which was cancelled after one season, I think that if I could go back in time and set things up so one was not cancelled, I would pick Alien Nation over Firefly. True, it had movies that followed on from the show, but the development was clearly stunted. There's SO ( Read more... )

So, for the past several months, it's been obvious that M needed a hip replacement, and, while our initial goal was to do it at year-end (since she'd already burned through her FSA on dental work), it became obvious that it needed doing sooner rather than later.

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