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What hurricane? ? Water was rougher and a lot higher along the shoreline, but nice. At Canaveral National Seashore - notice undeveloped and natural shoreline/dunes. Surfers liked it. It is adjacent to the launch sites (fence to water and guard shack) and tall building is the Vehicle Assembly Building.

After much higher than the desired 7 or under A1c long-term blood sugar tests (they can tell your 8-12 week avg. by the avg. number of sugar molecules stored in your red blood cells) with 11.3 six months ago and 11.7 three months ago, my doctor got me into a University of Maryland Hospital Type-II Diabetes Program (Medicare pays it!) where you take courses on your medications, what they do, and when to take them; your diet and how to adjust it; and the good effects of exercise. Yesterday I got the results of last Friday's blood test: A1c = 6.8. I'm pleased, especially since the U. of MD. diabetes specialist I'm now seeing reduced one of my medications!

Quiet. No rain at all. Today it's a little breezy but cool. Thanks for asking.

I had a doctor appointment with my PCP to go over my blood work. She said my cholesterol is up. We’re going to give the diet and exercise thing one more shot. My blood work they always run for my leukemia tested almost normal. She checked me all over and said I was in excellent health except for the cholesterol.

I remember when my wife went shopping for our daughters' weddings, and I thought I had a day free. I was wrong, because it turned out I had a day expensive. This morning I squeegeed a coating of roof sealer on the porch roof of my daughter's house. This afternoon Mrs. TK and I are going to another daughter's house, and our son-in-law and I are going to put our grandson in a bike trailer and tow him around the neighborhood.

Florence isn't allowed on Tybee Island. She didn't get a permit.

Today I took my bike to a mechanic 'cause after a day and a half if ripping apart my bike I couldn't find the problem. I woke up at 5am to head to work and the headlights were no turning on.. no high beam, no parking lights, but all the rest of the lights worked for braking, turning and so on.. I was pissed I had to take the inlaws car.. I just doing like being trapped inside a vehicle anymore. Anywho.. I put the bike back together this morning, and took it in for them to hook a power meter to in a few spots to see what's going on. Wouldn't you know.. as soon as I handed the mechanic the keys the F'ing light is on.. we talk a little about general maintenance and what I should be doing, and the things I need not worry about and bring to them to do. He decided to turn it on again and the lights didn't come on.. Hell ya.. I wasn't making this shit up! He jumps on the bike and tears off to the back of the shop and calls me over after 15 min to tell me the issue and the prices. He looks at me and says it will be about $30 for finding the issue I couldnt. No worries.. thats going to be the cheap part I figured.. Somewhere in the wiring harness I have a short in the grounding wire. He showed me the section that over heated and started to burn.. Summary will be 300 to rewire the bike, or as he said "you are not scared to take things apart, and buy the looks of your hands you might know what your doing with tools". If you would like we can fix it, or you can go home, splice the line here and hear and put a jumper line in, and while you at it, Put a jumper line here and ground the line to here. I told him I'll do the work, and then I payed the bill while he put the bike back together. I came home and did what he said.. all three lights in the headlight are working awesome now. I also changed the oil, and the brakes while I was at it.. why just do one thing when you can tinker more. I looked at the paperwork after I got home.. the mechanic wrote his personal number on the paper, and told me to call sometime.. he would like me to hang with the StayBroke crew he rides with.. I have been wanting to go out and play with them for a while now.. it's one of those things you have to have an invite to.. yay

One of my sisters who isn't diabetic was diacnosed as prediabetic in her 60's and with proper diet and weight loss isn't considered prediabetic anymore. At a family gathering she went on to tell me and my diabetic siblings how it was a lack of discipline on our part why we are diabetic. Just eat better and lose weight like I did and you too can kick it... We had to educate her that although her efforts are commendable, she just doesn't have the gene that we do that made us diabetic. She was 20lbs over weight and was diagnosed prediabetic at 62. We were fit and diagnosed prediabetic at 35... If you looked at my middle brother and I and were asked to guess which one of us was diabetic you would probably guess my brother. He's 5'8 and 230 where I'm 5'11 205 lbs. I have the gene, he doesn't...

Mmm, Saturday! Gotta load up the van with the killer weeds I sawed down yesterday and take them to the recycling center - they pick up ones smaller than 1/2" diameter, these are like *(&^%$ small trees! I left some leaves and hit them with roundup. Then I gotta attack the sump pump replacement project, and hopefully get in some patio reading, a Ruby walk, and bike ride. Thinking of trying to approximate WIlbur's Israeli breakfast dish that I can never remember the name of, but I think I can google it up. Bam! Shakshuka - invented by Shaquille O'Neill? :D Hmm - all I have is a La Creuset enameled pan, and that should be oven safe. I hope so, for my sake - I would be in big trouble if I rooned it! https://www.themediterraneandish.com/shakshuka-recipe/ Oh, this recipe didn't use the oven anyways. The video was excellent! Oven would have been better though because it is taking forever for the eggz to cook. Man, I sure wish I had me some good crusty bread to go wit' this! Looks good! Easy and spicy - nice. Next time I poach eggs though I'll try the RG method - sounds like more fun. Mmm , this was excellent! The eggs complement the spiciness of the "chili" very nicely would be good with beans in it! Garbanzos. Thanks, WIlbur! I did make a rookie mistake though, overpoached the egg yolks in an effort to make sure the eggz were cooked. Would have been even more excellent with runny yolks, folks! And that is no yolk! PS - I know I suck at photography - I can't even figure oot how to turn on the flash on my eye phone. Hey, it HAD a picture of a lightning bolt on it, thought that meant it was on.

Just the opposite here. If it rains more I'm going to want to shoot something.

You mean like this from last year? On a related note, the nearby Blackpoint Drive was closed. Several years ago it became fee based on honor system. Was going to drive through on was back. While too hot for wildlife mid afternoon, too early to eat at our favorite Mex/Cuban restaurant in Titusville. Drove by the exit road and noted it had gate closed. When arrived at the entry, closed with workcrew doing major reconstruction of the entrance including some roofed structure, perhaps a gatehouse for fee collection. Ended up driving on US 1 to downtown Cocoa where had dinner.

No, I think they smoked as much as they usually do.

Once you shovel some bullshit with a ninety dollar shovel you will never want to go back to those fifty dollar shovels.

Six chicken legs, grilled with salt and pepper. They were fantastic! Three last night and three tonight. Mrs. Mooseworth is OOT, and she is not a fan of chicken legs but I sure am. Ruby agrees.

...so I felt fine sending her this: She lives in Erie, so she has TONS of free time in the winter to work on puzzles. When complete, it is 10 feet long by 5 feet wide Tom

Organic Tabaco?

yellow, red and green from mildest to hottest.

hey!!

Yeah, I think I've identified the problem.

Obviously Florence didn't get the proper permits to come there.

It feels weird not having to work a Saturday. I think I might have to go for a bicycle ride sometime today.

Damn straight.

Great job Mick! It’s not the lunch meat. Though it’s not the healthiest, you can eat lunch meat and fat all day long and it won’t raise your blood sugar. I agree with SW to a point. Too many carbs can cause and definitely will exacerbate Type 2 diabetes. But there are many different patterns to type 2. And if you don’t have the wrong genetics you can eat all the carbs you want and you’ll never get it.

Heard that yesterday or today on the radio.?Not sure I combed my hair today, but I wear a cap.

I appreciate it, but I don't want to do that. Just keep posting, and I'll be happy.

NO!!!!! I don't think people use enough punctuation!!!! zOMG!!!

You don't see this to often.

Payette River

Candy corn is disgusting. No RG baiting, just the facts. RG is itching to get on that diabeetus train.

I stopped at the corner bar and the bar tender was talking about how she likes to eat healthy and organic. She just went outside and lit up a cigarette.

Well I hope you never put him on hold!

I don't know enough to tell you the differences, but I like it when I have it.

So you picked them up to wrap your feet when it rains. Good show.

I see you go by a different name somewhere else.

Yuh huh, because the nutrition and exercise advice from 1998 doesn't work, it is that simple.

Pullin for ya.

He will be, on Tuesday.

You are amazing, right?

If you were shopping, you probably saw the condos at the bridge that crosses over the Intercoastal to head back to Blackpoint and Canaveral NS. Before they were built (and bridge closed off for launches) it was a park that I took my FIL to watch the launch of John Glenn returning to space. Then they cleared the land and built the condos, most of which appear to be absentee owners with the storm shutters over windows and balconies closed. Wish I had known about the airboat ride at Midway. I always use the alternative, Captain John, who puts his boat in at the boat ramp across the street and meet him there. It is a real 6 elevated seat airboat as he disparages Midway's "barges". He may be retired now. Very environmental, back into a cypress area, points out wildlife and even takes a break docking on an island for us to roam while he eats a sandwich.

You WILL look at this.

Sounds she's only there because someone in hiring her, felt sorry for her or whatever. We should dream of a sideline part-time gig for you that you would love to do, petite. What could that be....bike tour guide with an existing company? Maybe 1 of the bigger companies that travel in North America or overseas. Think about it. I had a cycling friend in Toronto who did run her own little company of walking tours in the city. (Cycling was too complicated tour wise in Toronto.)

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Claimed ernest looking young fellow at the company meeting (bitch session) The V.P. at the front of the room raised his eyebrows and waved a hand in a way to invite elaboration. Emboldened the young fellow spouted on about ninety dollar shovels, and how he would sell the company shovels for $50.00. The V.P. asked about the $90.00 shovels, and where the lad had found that figure. The kid mumbled "well that's what I've heard" V.P. said he would look into it. I looked into it today and we pay nine something for a shovel. Gives me a warm & fuzzy for my fellow union brothers.

Fortunately, there's so much room for improvement that it's easy to accomplish frequent goals on the way to becoming amazing!

One kid is living in my basement draining my retirement as we speak.