Tue 29 April

07:01:00   6.6  / 119  Fasting     
12:41:00   5.8  / 104  Pre-Lunch   
15:11:00   7.5  / 135  Post-Lunch
19:15:00   4.1  /  73  Pre-Tea     
22:18:00   8.7  / 157  Post-Tea

Driving Totals: Daytime: 560 mins of 2400 req // Nighttime: 200 mins of 600 req

W: 89.5

Scratchy: no win. 5128 steps

Total Steps: 7539

Breakfast: sausage roll
Lunch: sausage roll w/ cottage cheese
Tea: chicken enchilladas

Notes: Whoo Hoo! I've been working on a little project so that the stats on Sugarstats.com get updated automagically. And it works! Yay!!

One of my biggest hassles at night was updating my daily glucose stats on Sugarstats.com. I wish I had a dollar for everytime I've dosed off just copying the information from my own stats system to theirs. I like theirs as it has better charts and long range stuff than my own, and that's why I use it. Subscribers get the ability to upload stats from their meter's software, if the meter is supported, but most of mine haven't been, so it didn't make sense for me to subscribe, it wouldn't solve the problem for me. They had an Email option, but any of the Emails I've sent haven't gone into my account. Another option they had was for Twitter, so I signed up on Twitter, and then signed up on Twittermail.com so I can send the automated Emails to that address. It then gets sent to Sugarstats. I put my little script file into a cron job that runs every 15 minutes, checks to see if there are any additional stats, and if there are, it sends them in an Email. Look ma, no hands! LOL. So now I can spend more time typing stuff here rather than putting myself to sleep doing things that computers should do for us.

I took Rod to school this morning because I had an RDNS appt to get my dressing changed. The dressing from the weekend was quite wet and oozy but she didn't make any comment on that. I let her know it's been itching me, and apparently where it was itching the skin is not looking too good. Part of the problem was where and how they put the tape so I got her to do it the way that 'works for me' and so far, so good.

I bought chicken enchiladas today for our tea from a poultry butcher shop at the mall. How sad that this was Rod's first taste of an enchilada because they used ITALIAN seasoning in it instead of Mexican. Ugh! I shall have to make our own using low carb tortillas next time. Mind, these were still pretty good, but NOT what I had in mind, that's for sure.

In other news, on Flickr, I have finally succumbed and joined the Monthly Scavenger Hunt group. I've been watching Vicki's entries each month for ages now and I finally decided to give it a go, starting with next month's list. Each month you get a list of 20 words/phrases, and then you search your photos or take a photo and upload it to Flickr and tag it for the group. When you're finished for the month, you can make a mosaic of all the pics you put in for the hunt and add it to the forum on the group. You also vote, and have your photos voted on. It's all confidential though, so no one sees what you've voted on stuff. I've been voting on pics a few at a time every day and it's addicting, so have had to limit myself to just 3 at a time. Otherwise I end up discovering an hour has gone by. LOL.

This is what Vicki had to say when I told her I'd joined...

(21:37:37) < oh!!! :) :) :) welcome!!!!!!!!!!!! fun group and you don't have to get the whole lot if you run out of month. the voting booth is cool as well - there are some great interpretations and lateral thinking to the theme, many make me laugh out loud

(21:39:00) < oh and don't forget the MAIN rule!
HAVE FUN!

(21:39:47) < also pics can be from your archives they don't have to be taken that month. you actually get to a point where you take pics of 'things' just in case of a future hunt :)

(21:41:42) < D's not interested (so he says - yeah right!) but is often coming up with a suggestion for a category as we drive around etc. I know read out the list to him at the beginning of the month and keep him updated as to which pics i am still hunting for as the month goes on.
(21:41:00) > Can people see what vote you've given?
(21:43:02) < no and that is the beauty of it - no hurt ego's - what does happen though is that the top 3 aggregate scores get acknowleged and the top scoring pic becomes the next months group icon.
(21:46:09) < the voting booth is quite a feat - it doesn't score your pic on the amount of votes - so if you pic went in on the 1st of the month by the end of the month it would have several hundred votes but someones whose went in on the last day of the month would have say 10 votes, it averages the votes by the amount of votes. every pic must have a minimum of 5 votes to be able to be averaged evenly. in the voting booth there is an option of voting on pics with less than 5 votes - so the votes are weighted and then averaged
(21:48:16) < what does happen at the end of the month is the vote categories top 3 are shown with an aggregate score but the other members also put up a mosaic of their favourites from each category. you don't have to vote to put up your favourites in a category.
(21:49:18) < the voting booth also keeps track of the pics you give 10's to so you can view them later when you are selecting your favourites per category so you don't have to remember which pics you really liked (and so scored a 10 to)
(21:49:32) > that's neat. voting is kinda addicting though! LOL That's really clever.
(21:53:28) < it is. early in a month i do category by category (and usually ones i have already decided on my own pic to enter so i am not influenced by ideas) and some of the interpretations are quite good. some are obscure and i can't see how the pic fit the clue and many are ordinary. i tend to start as a base of 5, if i thought it fitted but didn't grab me i score 5 or 6 or 7. if i didn't understand the relevance or thought it didn't fit the clue well i score lower, it it made me laugh or go 'yeah' then it gets a 10, if it is good but didn't make me laugh it gets between the 7 and 9 - that's my scoring method

Anyway, I reckon Diane, Chris and Fira might be interested in joining too. I think it's a great way to be creative and have fun at the same time. And for me, it'll be great incentive for finding places to drive to on the weekend. :-)

I think that's about it for today. It sure is nice to share my thoughts without dozing off. Am really glad that I got the automation set up. Another good thing about it is that if I haven't had time to update my blog, You can still see I'm doing readings and stuff on either Twitter or Sugarstats (links to both my areas on each are on the sidebar to the right on this page). So it'll keep Diane from worrying about me when I sometimes go off the computer for a few days. ;-)