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Thanksgiving Meme

I've seen this meme popping up around the Internet, figured I'd give it a try... 1. What are the traditional favorites? Turkey, stuffing, gravy, candied yams, cranberry sauce 2. What new recipes will you try this year? Used a different recipe for whole wheat bread than I have in the past. 3. What part of the meal do you never compromise? Turkey and stuffing. Has to be there, or it's not Thanksgiving. And sweet potatoes (candied or not) and cranberry sauce. 4. Who get… Continue

Added by tmana on November 26, 2009 at 5:00am — No Comments

Hard to say "Goodbye"... to a "Steel Horse"

On July 19, 2009, the minor frame damage that my 1981 19" Lotus Excelle mixte bicycle withstood early in its life progressed to the point of making the vehicle unrideable. On July 25, I purchased a 2008 Specialized Dolce 44cm to replace it. The following week, I upgraded from cage clips to a clipless cleat system. Shortly after, the Excelle was placed in storage, with the thought of stripping it for parts, and/or selling it for parts. (As it turns out, I can't use parts from that bicycle on eith… Continue

Added by tmana on October 11, 2009 at 5:51am — 1 Comment

The Deliberate Returning

"On Rosh Hashanah it is written, and on Yom Kippur it is sealed: who shall live and who shall die...who shall perish by fire and who by water; who by sword, and who by beast; who by hunger and who by thirst; who by earthquake and who by plague..." Yom Kippur -- known in English as the Day of Rememberance or the Day of Atonement, the culmination of the High Holy Days (or Days of Awe) -- is the day in which Jews believe that G-d seals His Judgements for the coming year. If one were to look at thi… Continue

Added by tmana on September 27, 2009 at 6:22pm — 1 Comment

Meme - Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness

This week is "National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week". Since diabetes is "invisible" to many, we have been asked to participate with a blog post, tweet, or other indication of support and explanation to try to make our issues more "visible" to the general public. I usually don't do memes, but this one seemed important enough to pick up... Thanks to Suzanne,… Continue

Added by tmana on September 15, 2009 at 4:33pm — 1 Comment

Whole Paycheck. Now I know...

I expect that higher quality will often cost more than poor quality. Between the increased labor of production, culling items that do not meet higher levels of specification, and speeding the process from producer to market, there are costs involved that must be passed on to the consumer or end user. My choice of which level of quality to purchase depends on how much money I have, the expediency in which I must acquire the goods, the ease of availability of those goods, and how much differenc

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Added by tmana on June 21, 2009 at 11:16pm — 1 Comment

Birthdays, Rain Delays, Friends, and Family

US Population: ~280,000,000. Days in a year: 365. Number of other US residents with whom you share a birthday: ~76,700. If there is one thing as certain as the sun's rising in the East, it is that at some time during the day the USS AVENGER chapter of STARFLEET: The International STAR TREKTMFan Association holds its anniversary picnic, it will rain. Hard. It could be in the late morning as we set u… Continue

Added by tmana on June 14, 2009 at 6:53am — No Comments

Away From Keys, the Diabetes Community Keeps Ticking

Except for Twitter feeds to and from my cellphone, I've been "away from keys" most of this past weekend, meeting for the first time with friends from the Internet and cyclists I'd only seen on TV.

This past Sunday, several notable dBloggers and other members of the Diabetes Online Community met in New York City for lunch at Marseille, a Mediterranean French/Moroccan bistro on the western edge of Restaurant Row. Present and accounted for were:

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Added by tmana on May 27, 2009 at 9:52pm — 1 Comment

Outreach is when you are "out"...

...and you stretch forth your hand in friendship and fellowship. ...and you are not afraid to say, "I've been there," "I know someone who...", or "I understand". ...when you are willing to consider the words of that poet somewhere near Regula, who suggested that the three most important words in any language are, "Let me help." ...when you allow a single moment of note against your soul to spring forth the sympathetic chords and symphonies that put one human being in touch with another, or in… Continue

Added by tmana on May 15, 2009 at 10:56pm — No Comments

Offline Outreach -- Trenton Computer Festival Wrap-Up

This wrap-up is coming several days after the festival, as it's taken me some time to do my formal thank-yous and post-mortem analyses to the people and communities who've provided me information and materials to give out this past weekend. As I noted last week, I spent the past w… Continue

Added by tmana on April 29, 2009 at 5:13pm — 4 Comments

T Minus 28 hours and counting...

In about that time I will be presenting on The Role of Online Communities in Diabetes Management at the annual Trenton Computer Festival in Ewing, New Jersey. I'm still fighting with Corel Draw to print out the title page for Sunday's poster session, plus I need to do CDs, business cards, and post links. Stay tuned for updates. Continue

Added by tmana on April 24, 2009 at 6:24am — 1 Comment

Establishing a Lingua Franca Diabetica (II)

Following the thoughts discussed here. As each person with diabetes struggles to come to grips with the daily routine of blood glucose management, he or she develops a quasi-technical vocabulary specific to his or her diabetes. This vocabulary may be as basic as "take this pill with breakfast" or as intricate as determining a schedule of pre- and post-prandial blood glucose checks, insulin schedules (type, do… Continue

Added by tmana on April 7, 2009 at 8:00pm — 2 Comments

Establishing a Lingua Franca Diabetica (I)

Lingua franca: a common language by which communication can be conducted between parties who speak different native tongues. A recent video clip on Manny's blog which sounded (to my non-hispanophone ears) like a fugue on American (mis)pronunciation of Spanish place names reminded me of similar issues I've had with French place names in the United States (sorry, but I read "Bwahz" -- not "Boy Zee" -- a… Continue

Added by tmana on April 7, 2009 at 12:30pm — No Comments

To Tweet, or not to Tweet?

As geeky as I purport to be, up until now, I've been mostly able to ignore Twitter. I think about it and I see teens-and-tweens whose cellphones and text messages are as integral a part of their lives and senses of living as... well, as insulin pumps are to many of the T1s in this community. I see twentysomethings texting while driving. Why do I want to ignore Twitter, you may ask? I sense the expectation of responding to a tweet in seconds, rather than the… Continue

Added by tmana on April 1, 2009 at 11:34pm — 2 Comments

Accepted.

I received notice yesterday that my proposed talk, The Role of Online Communities in Diabetes Management, has been accepted for the 34th Annual Trenton Computer Festival. I will have a regular talk session on Saturday, April 25, 2009, and also be part of Sunday's poster session on Sunday, April 26, 2009. My intent is to provide a relatively vendor-neutral presentation, giving people an idea of some of the different diabetes-focused communities and onli… Continue

Added by tmana on March 8, 2009 at 9:09am — No Comments

Meetings and Memories...

A few months ago I tried, with limited success, to create a one-yard-square quilt with a repeating glucometer motif. Notwithstanding rotary cutting to size and what I thought was accurate seaming, very little lined up correctly, and very little lay flat. Execution issues aside,… Continue

Added by tmana on March 7, 2009 at 11:14pm — 3 Comments

Abbrv Me

Much of my time absent from this blog has been spent moderating chat sessions over on Diabetic Rockstar. The more time I spend with folk new to online chatting, the more I find people who aren't familiar with the abbreviations I learned back when I got my first e-mail address (some time around 1990ish)...

While newer e-mail formats support HTML formatting and enough length to write out one's intents completely, the popularity of SMS text me

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Added by tmana on March 3, 2009 at 7:30am — No Comments

Checking 24-hour trends

I spent some time earlier today looking at the various reports in Abbott's Co-Pilot software for the Freestyle series of glucometers. The one thing missing is the ability to view daily high and low averages and excursions by anything more granular than a two- to three-hour window (depending on how one sets up one's pre- and post-prandial times, plus bedtime and/or middle-of-sleep-cycle times).

After a bit of futsing around with Mic

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Added by tmana on February 4, 2009 at 9:06pm — No Comments

Boxed in by Boxing Day

Those of us in the US may not be familiar with the "fun" Christmas holiday-day celebrated in the UK and most Commonwealth countries. Quite frankly, The Other Half's cousins weren't, either. It just happens to be a convenient title, because Boxing Day for me ended up not being all that much fun... In retrospect, I suspect part of the issue is that The Other Half's family's diet is not nearly as produce-intensive as mine is -- and it is much higher in refined flour, fats overall, saturated fats i… Continue

Added by tmana on December 28, 2008 at 8:00pm — No Comments

Scary Christmas

The annual Christmas morning visitation to/by the Other Half's family is always a pleasant thing.. the catching up, the news, the day's arrangements of time... After a break, we head out with his parents to return the visit... and the talk becomes more personal, more gossipy... We've learned that one of The Other Half's cousins was diagnosed with diabetes around the time of a recent knee replacement operation. I had not remembered that her mother also has Type 2 diabetes (has had it about 10 ye… Continue

Added by tmana on December 26, 2008 at 6:47am — 2 Comments

Off for the holidays...

I've been a bit quiet lately both here and on my technical blog. Mostly it's been a matter of working on holiday gifts and finishing up projects. In the next hour or so, The Other Half and I will be making our way down to his parents in Virginia Beach. We expect to stay for about a week. We'll have online access, but will likely be too busy to respond in any semblance of timeliness. To everyone here, a happy and healthy Winter Solstice Holiday, regardless of which one(s) you observe and/or cele… Continue

Added by tmana on December 20, 2008 at 1:39pm — 1 Comment

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