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Group 7-day waking average?

5.9 for me on sensor change day and a lovely sunny start now the fog has burnt off. Even got some washing outside already!

Planning more of a relaxing day today, off to nearby Solihull to collect our tickets for the Australian holiday from the travel agents and maybe a spot of browsing around shops and I suspect a Starbucks 😉

Have a good day everyone!
 
eggyg said:
Had planned doing nothing today expect, like @Pattidevans, make a chicken dinner. (Mine is just a common roast chicken but with my own sage and onion stuffing, plus the usual accompaniments.)
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Nothing is common about your cooking @eggyg

Lovely photo of Zara and Sadie!
 
Eternal422 said:
5.9 for me on sensor change day and a lovely sunny start now the fog has burnt off. Even got some washing outside already!

Planning more of a relaxing day today, off to nearby Solihull to collect our tickets for the Australian holiday from the travel agents and maybe a spot of browsing around shops and I suspect a Starbucks 😉

Have a good day everyone!
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oooh er... exciting!
 
Good morning! 6'8 earlier today, I see my waking numbers and between meals are slightly higher than normal. Bigger rises after food too. Maybe should reintroduce a bit of Levemir?

Retirement is sounding very appealing. I'm only 40 years away from state pension age 😛 Jokes aside, my supervisors are getting on my nerves this past few days and I'm getting very tired of this shift pattern. It messes my sleep, and sleep is essential!
 
Morning all.7.6 for me this morning.Housework to do meat to cook for dinner then out for a good walk this afternoon.I do the house work waste of time .The dog just pulls his toys out the box and scatters everywhere the swine .Have a good day folks and stay safe
 
Afternoon all.

My waking bg this morning was a 5.2 - I have not had one of them for a while....
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just got home from sunday lunch out, another nightmare night woke at 3.9 alarm again at 6.30 had orange juice, it was low when i went to sleep at 5 so had a couple of Jelly babies, finger prick was 4.4 so more or less the same as the Libre, woke again at 8.30 another alarm finger prick was lower so more JBs dont understand what going on. really fed up and depressed as i dont get why its changed this passed week, ive just had dinner chicken roast and chocolate browne with ice cream and wine, feeling like what the point nothing seams to be going right no matter what i do sorry for the rant xx
 
Elenka_HM said:
Good morning! 6'8 earlier today, I see my waking numbers and between meals are slightly higher than normal. Bigger rises after food too. Maybe should reintroduce a bit of Levemir?

Retirement is sounding very appealing. I'm only 40 years away from state pension age 😛 Jokes aside, my supervisors are getting on my nerves this past few days and I'm getting very tired of this shift pattern. It messes my sleep, and sleep is essential!
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Crossing fingers they don't raise the state pension age further. I have been retired for a few years. Whilst I miss the challenge of the work I was doing (software for medical sensors) I do not miss the micromanagement that grew ever worse the longer I worked. On one occasion I was asked how long a software change would take and estimated about two days. They said they thought 2 - 3 hours and I asked why. The reply was they had done some programming at university (it was over 30 years previously and in BASIC). @harbottle will know what I mean! :(
 
MikeyBikey said:
(it was over 30 years previously and in BASIC).
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That’s a blast from the past! Started with BASIC, then used PASCAL at uni and in my first job BASIC+2!
 
Eternal422 said:
That’s a blast from the past! Started with BASIC, then used PASCAL at uni and in my first job BASIC+2!
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Hi Mikey/Tony
I did Economics at Uni a very long time ago and had something like 4 hours of computing a week using Basic and was it Fortran 4 ??
I remember computers the size of a small house and had to punch in the coding on loads of cards and if you had a comma in the wrong place you got an error message and if you were lucky enough to do it correctly you got pages and pages of data.
I also remember starting work and doing Lotus 123 and struggling but how much simpler it seems now.
I always admired the likes of yourselves who could understand and programme computers as I did not have a clue and constantly struggled.
Hope you are feeling better Mike
 
Hmmm, pascal, Ada, spirit III, Assembler, Fortran 4, Cobol, even paper tape on a PDP11 and merelybswitches on the PDP 8, 6502 etc, All great fun for over 30 years.

Now I just program in Excel VBA and still find it fun.
 
MikeyBikey said:
Crossing fingers they don't raise the state pension age further. I have been retired for a few years. Whilst I miss the challenge of the work I was doing (software for medical sensors) I do not miss the micromanagement that grew ever worse the longer I worked. On one occasion I was asked how long a software change would take and estimated about two days. They said they thought 2 - 3 hours and I asked why. The reply was they had done some programming at university (it was over 30 years previously and in BASIC). @harbottle will know what I mean! :(
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As we say in my country, "ignorance is bold". I am surprised how confident people can be when they don´t have a clue.

I am getting a bit of that micromanagement, and also contradictory management. Meaning different supervisors ask me to do different things at the same time and if I listen to one, the other complaints. I´d like them to discuss what they need and get to agreements, I´m not there to argue or pick sides 🙄
 
Morning a 7.1 for me but a Unicorn so good start to week.
Am ready to fight the diabetes fairy and see whether he/ she is going to be good or bad.
Looks a fairly straightforward week ahead with sone spare time so looking forward to finding one or two new coffee spots to visit all in the name of research.
Whatever your week I hope at the end of it you will think it was a nice one.
 
Good morning everyone

BG 4.8 yesterday evening it was the lowest I have ever had at 4.1

At the beginning when I was very green (not due to diabetes), I found computer programming very confusing. I was put to work learning Spirit III (the then language of the Tornado military aircraft) and Fortran IV (used for design work). It took a while to twig that you could do anything including changing the value of True and False (an ideal suited to politicians me thinks). But I am a very very logical thinker with a strange fault. I cannot resolve ambiguities of any sort. I always try to resolve them but fail every time, picking the wrong possible interpretation. This makes programming easier but life amazingly harder. You would be surprised at just how ambiguous life and the written/spoken word are. And I love solving difficult problems so programming and software design suited my little brain well. 🙂

Which is why I could work out how to play the keyboard from nothing and create a suitable (for me) notation that was both easy to read instantly (from the get go) and worked for any song/hymn I want to play. Don't get me wrong. I still had to learn all the chords and develop chord and fingering 'memory', and develop sensitivity (difficult at the start as there is so much to learn)which did take some time. But there is so much more to music and composition... the ultimate challenge?

Hence my approach to 'my' diabetes 'problem'.

Have I ever come across something that defeated me? Yes. Latin!!! Flying (I discovered that I get air sickness .. end of my desired career as an astronaut!). People (although I am better at that now).

No idea why I said all that.

Yesterday I was singing in the worship team at church and it was great. Really great. i so enjoyed it. Some exercise later too.

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Today rest, some composition work on a new song, exercise and a light tea.

Have a great day today whatever you are doing
 
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