re: #109 Belafon

My wife has been watching a show on PBS where this guy goes and talks to people who have started up their own businesses. This weeks was about a woman who is really good at cross-stitching people - in the time the host stitched a backwards letter z, she stitched a likeness of him. And while she does stuff on commission, she published a book to allow other people to do it: amazon.com. Her book is more expensive than most cross-stitch books, but her’s is more of a pattern book than a single-project book.

Another one that was really cool was this guy who actually designed crutches that support your weight at the elbow rather than trying to hold your body up with your wrists. The guy who designed them has modified them over the years, and they’re also pretty good at getting out of the way when you need your hands for something: mobilitydesigned.com.

I’d only buy this if I was doing these kinds of family portraits for a hobby or a living, but I admire that she went to all this trouble. This is excellent legwork.

Annnnd my blood sugar has been all over the map today. I checked it this morning at 7:30, it was 114. At noon, I felt weird and broke out into a sweat BUT the A/C (set at 81) kicked on at the same time, but I felt weird. So I tested it again. It was 60. (Which is BAD, VERY BAD.) Two handfuls of raisins and some licorice bears later, it was up to 138, which I was much happier about. Then I ate lunch. I just tested my blood sugar again, and it’s 196 and my meter chides me that it’s out of range and do this and that and blah blah. All I can think of is, I feel fine, I don’t feel like I’m going to keel over and it will go down. I am not going to worry about it being too high for a little while. It’s the too low part that scares me.

But it also reminds me that I need to stock up on food for my desk at work since my work hours are changing on Monday (no thanks to daylight stupid time). I am so not looking forward to working 8-5, because, frankly, the traffic sucks. I also need to make a list of audio books for the drive to/from work.