One previous owner (a dumbass) . That’s was a good win.
I’m actually selling audio stuff this time; my CD player finally. I have no CDs any more!
@med6753, I couldn't begin to imagine how she feels about that, it was sheer hell just watching it live over here on the TV let being there and involved like she was , she has mine and I'm sure most of us on here, full respect. I just not know how I'd have reacted had I had been standing in her shoes, but I expect that in such events your training just kicks and you get stuck in helping whoever you can.
Please convey to her my thanks for everything she did during those terrifying days, respect man.
Oh this type 2 diabetic cheats on occasion too. You have to or you'll go nuts. My A1C stays between 6.3 and 6.5 and I control it with 1 oral med and diet. (It was 7.9 when I was diagnosed 4 years ago! ) No insulin shots required. I don't check my blood sugar but every 6 months I have blood work done and my fasting blood sugar is usually 80 - 100. And my weight is normal for my height and I make sure to keep it that way. So I'm diagnosed as a "controlled diabetic".My A1C has been sitting at 5.9. I also go every 6 months but I do check fasting glucose every morning. I hate to admit it but I am very overweight. However, since being in the hospital 2 weeks ago for a week with a small bowel obstruction and having to have a naso-gastric tube crammed through my nose and sinuses into my stomach, I am finally listening to my doctor. I am not sitting for hours everyday in front of the work/home computer. I am getting up and walking around every hour or so. The missus and I have filled the tires back up on our expensive but underused bikes and we are riding in the evenings and I am watching what I eat. Between the hospital stay and last week, I have shed 10 pounds, thankfully without dieting, smaller portions and common sense eating. It may take 2 years to lose the weight I need to lose, but I will get it off and keep it off this time.
An A1C of 5.9 is good. That puts you in the "pre-diabetic" category. Type 2 runs in my Mother's side of the family so I got the whammy. I found the biggest contributor to control was diet and weight. Prior to diagnosis I was 203 pounds on a 6 foot frame. While that's not considerably over weight it certainly doesn't help. It took me almost a year but I'm down to between 170 - 175 pounds and I've kept it there for almost 3 years. And it's tough to do because the shitty American diet is big on portion size, big on sodium, big on sugar, and most of all big on carbs. That's the killer. It really sucks that 90% of what you see in the grocery store you can't buy/eat because it's all processed foods high in that crap. So I've had to learn to cook and prepare low carb meals myself. But every once in a while you gotta break out and pig out.
No TEA activity this weekend. The lady is coming for the weekend. (She's also diabetic so we suffer together). But we are going to the New York Airshow on Saturday. Maybe I'll get some pictures but I'm not a shutter bug so don't count on it.
Curious to hear your guys opinions on this shelf. (SNIP)
Opinons? Rants? Rotten tomatoes? I welcome all forms of comments on this particular shelf. Also note the miter saw and other tools are only temporary occupants.
Go printer, go!
Here we just crunch metformin and carry on as usual
TBH it's really difficult. Everything ready made is crap as you say and there is constant promotion of even more crap and the crap is the cheapest. Food in the UK is turning into food in the US while our health authority is complaining about obesity being the number one cause of everything. Poverty, marketing and a race to the bottom is mostly the cause of this.
I am slightly lucky I suspect due to my swiss and german background. They basically lived on sugar for the last 200 years. It killed off all the weaker genetic lines pretty sharpish and left me with super genetic sugar tolerance. I can eat a whole biberfladen and dig out SWMBO's test kit and it hasn't budged from nothing. I hope it lasts.
@med6753, I couldn't begin to imagine how she feels about that, it was sheer hell just watching it live over here on the TV let being there and involved like she was , she has mine and I'm sure most of us on here, full respect. I just not know how I'd have reacted had I had been standing in her shoes, but I expect that in such events your training just kicks and you get stuck in helping whoever you can.
Please convey to her my thanks for everything she did during those terrifying days, respect man.
Thanks. She's a very special lady. I have a lot of respect for her too. I'm just glad she wasn't at ground zero itself. Because all those cops and fireman who where there are dying everyday.
She's retiring in January after near 30 years on the force. She can't wait to get out.
That's one hell of a print. I'm going to say nothing more seeing as I jinxed the last one.
I've decided I need a 3d printer. Need to move house first
med6753, pictures would be great please. I love air shows and I like photography so its a great opportunity for to combine the two, often I'll take about 1,000 plus photos at a show.
UK air shows will I think slowly die away though because of new rules and regulation following that fateful crash of an old jet fighter onto a major road killing around 10 people. These days they are forced into having nearby roads closed during a show and moving the display axis so far away and high from the crowd line that unless its a large plane being displayed, they almost become dots in the sky. Photography then becomes useless at that point unless you happen to have a lens of at least 400 - 600mm focal range.
Yet they still allow low altitude flight practice in Snowdonia and the Lake District that is so low that more than once I've been worried of getting an impromptu haircut.
That's one hell of a print. I'm going to say nothing more seeing as I jinxed the last one.
I've decided I need a 3d printer. Need to move house first
I'm thinking just the opposite. Consumer grade 3d printers have a way to go yet.
It is just about the only place in this country where the pilots can practise and hone their skills at flying low level and keeping out of the sight of radar, just as they would fly if possible in a combat zone for obvious reasons
Just checked mine, 5.8. Greywoolfe, for easier mass loss just avoid any foods which contain wheat, corn, corn syrup or potato or other starch. Lots of green vegetables, lots of cabbage and you will find your weight, blood pressure and glucose dropping off fast. Had to drop BP medication to near nothing, and probably in another year I will be off it totally now. Dinner tonight reheated veg I made last weekend, cabbage (savoy cabbages for a change), broccoli, mushrooms and some pumpkin, all done in the same pot, along with a small sweet potato, along with a generous addition of "Lord Of the Ring" hot chilli as kicker.
It is just about the only place in this country where the pilots can practise and hone their skills at flying low level and keeping out of the sight of radar, just as they would fly if possible in a combat zone for obvious reasons
Nope.
See for one of many examples.
It really is fun eyeballing sheep as they whizz pass at 70kt, while watching outfor other aircraft coming in the opposite direction
True, but they aren't the only people that fly low and without radar cover! Even I have done a bit of it
I think I mentioned before that my lady is a cop. Specifically she's NYPD School Safety Division. Guess when her birthday is? September 11th. Guess where she was on September 11, 2001? At a school about 10 blocks from WTC. She saw the whole thing. She said she will never forget the smell. The smell of death. The images of cops assisting pedestrians across the Brooklyn Bridge to get out of Manhattan? She was there. She was on duty 3 days straight before she could go home.
Needless to say even 17 years later that event has put a permanent damper on her birthday. So I try to play it up as much as I can. When she gets here later today she will be greeted with this. It's the least I can do for her.
Yes, there's a cake there and we're gonna eat it.
My latest Ebay purchase has arrived, sold as not working, a Teac CR-H250 receiver, advertised as power LED is on but will not switch on. Thought the bloody thing just needed a couple of capacitors in the power supply, so I'd have something at last to get teeth into on the bench, but no, how fecking wrong was I.
Opened it up and a CD was wedged in the tray, wrestled it free and the tray opened up and the unit now works perfectly