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Thanks my friends!

My D seems to be doing fine. I am holding steady at an A1c of 5.5%, hypos almost nonexistant. I still struggle with my mornings, but sadly that is the bane of existance for most of us. My real health bother this last year has been my fatigue, messed up metabolism and low body temperature. It is always something. But I will get through this.

Glad you like my real face. Hope you are doing well. Don't be a stranger, we miss you.

Miss ya kiddo! Hope all's going well with the new career. Stay cool!

It's sooooooo hot here. Hope you're staying cool!

Spring has sprung here, what a beautiful weekend yet again! Hope yours was too :)

Hey, os, it's good to have you back, smiling face and all ;)

They thought the music thing was about operating in this little self contained world with it's own proprietary rules, like a programing language I guess. I'd say security is something with a fair amount of job security, probably a good career move.

I got into IT in the late 90's when it was really easy to talk your way into a job. I had a little web page business going when web pages were an exotic skill. I read an article, then, about a University looking into what other professions would have the type of people who would be good programers. The best place's too look were musicians and contractors. I remember thinking how odd that was, but the skill a contractor has is being able to build something in their head and to think ahead about how everything fits together. This is very useful in programming because you're building everything in your head in programing.

Since I'm a musician with modest talents I guess that makes me a programmer with modest talents:)

Sounds like you're more of a network guy, got any musical or contracting skills?

The worst part of the 18 recordset code is maintaining it. It usually takes a half an hour just to remember how it works so I can change/fix it. Cutover is a clearcut. If you've ever been to the South you may have noticed lots of pine trees in rows, that's what we do. I started out in '79 as a planter then worked my way up to foreman. Used to take my wife and young daughter along, we camped out on the sites in a travel trailer. When my daughter started school I started doing carpenter/cabinetmaker work at home. My wife died, I needed a better way to pay for my daughters schooling and besides I was getting too old to be climbing around on roofs, so I talked my way back into the company I used to work for and started learning on the job. No one understands what I do but me, so I have a certain amount of job security. I live in a very rural area so people with my skill set are scarce, as opposed to carpenters which are a dime a dozen.

I'm 62 so am just hoping my job will last another 4 years. If I was a little younger I would get better with SQL Server, learn VB.net and maybe a scripting language like Python or PHP. Skills in Access are not terribly in demand.

Thanks for the friend add onesaint. I work in a one man shop taking care of about 30 computers and one server, so I guess I'm a Systems Admin. also, I always call myself the IT Manager even though the only person I manage is me:) I have to know a little bit about everything but I spend most of my time doing custom database applications using Access and VBA. We are in an odd business, planting trees on cut over land, so off the shelf stuff doesn't work too well. I realize some people call VBA a scripting language and dismiss it as a toy but over the years I've learned to squeeze quite a bit out of it. I did one report that required opening 18 different recodsets in VBA and then slicing and dicing the data.

Your posts are knowledgeable and I always look forward to your input, good to see you back around and posting again.

Hey onesaint. I had a look at that calculator you suggested and when I compared what it said with what I am eating (with about 30g carbs) it suggested about 220g protein and only about 100g fat, I am eating about 150g protein and 120 plus grams fat... Do you think upping my protein would be a good idea? I thought that Bernstein's diet was more high fat, moderate protein? How do you normally eat? Sorry for all the questions, I am buying the book but have to wait a while for it to arrive in NZ. Cheers.

Heya, Cheers for the welcome. Looking forward to getting to know everyone =)