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So, the ongoing saga of Gena the diabetic dog continues. On the one hand, it should be in raves because she is happily bouncing around today, as opposed to miserable with a flood of ketones eating her up or passed out in insulin shock, which were both possible outcomes. However...
If I were a genuinely super responsible caregiver I would have just checked her sugar level to see exactly where we are standing with this 20% increased insulin shot regimen. I'm pretty sure that's too high for the long term, and I'm pretty sure that after four meals with 20 units plus an extra twenty units during damage control she is somewhere close to her normal sugar inventory so I should be trying to work out what her new regular dose should be. Whether she goes back to sixteen, which worked for a long time and just got thrown off by some infection or something, or whether she just needs to be boosted a unit or maybe two to be stable, is a question that I really should be getting started on resolving.
But the difference between a human and a dog makes things hard. A human, if the situation is explained, says "let's get to it" and sticks out their thumb. Heck, a human at that point pricks their own damn thumb. My dog has absolutely no interest in having her lip rolled back and jabbed with a needle, and now that she feels better she is far less inclined to trust me when I tell her "I know this sucks but we gotta do it." She's had a rough three days, and I want to just let her enjoy feeling better while accepting the obvious feeling better as evidence that her inventory is somewhere near normal.
So we'll just power curve her sugar balance tomorrow. Or maybe settle on eighteen for a few days and give her a snack if she gets lethargic. I dunno. I just don't want her to have to fight with her person, even if it would be the best thing for her health. A dog's faith in their person, I think, is maybe more important to them then sharpening the finest edge on their health, and I can eyeball measure well enough to keep her close to that edge.
If I were a genuinely super responsible caregiver I would have just checked her sugar level to see exactly where we are standing with this 20% increased insulin shot regimen. I'm pretty sure that's too high for the long term, and I'm pretty sure that after four meals with 20 units plus an extra twenty units during damage control she is somewhere close to her normal sugar inventory so I should be trying to work out what her new regular dose should be. Whether she goes back to sixteen, which worked for a long time and just got thrown off by some infection or something, or whether she just needs to be boosted a unit or maybe two to be stable, is a question that I really should be getting started on resolving.
But the difference between a human and a dog makes things hard. A human, if the situation is explained, says "let's get to it" and sticks out their thumb. Heck, a human at that point pricks their own damn thumb. My dog has absolutely no interest in having her lip rolled back and jabbed with a needle, and now that she feels better she is far less inclined to trust me when I tell her "I know this sucks but we gotta do it." She's had a rough three days, and I want to just let her enjoy feeling better while accepting the obvious feeling better as evidence that her inventory is somewhere near normal.
So we'll just power curve her sugar balance tomorrow. Or maybe settle on eighteen for a few days and give her a snack if she gets lethargic. I dunno. I just don't want her to have to fight with her person, even if it would be the best thing for her health. A dog's faith in their person, I think, is maybe more important to them then sharpening the finest edge on their health, and I can eyeball measure well enough to keep her close to that edge.
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I bought my ticket for today's journey last night when I went to bed. I got to the train station this morning only to find out my round-trip ticket had expired at 3am even though I had not activated it. Apparently they are only good for the calendar day you buy them on (regardless of activation status) but they aren't upfront with that.
I also got within 67 points (out of 5000) of getting on the first tier of guest rewards with Amtrak before their fiscal year rolled over and reset all my flipping tier-qualifying points. I only got that far because of a vacation up to Seattle last year - even with all the travel of my new job I calculate I'll fall far short of qualifying for that first tier again.
I also got within 67 points (out of 5000) of getting on the first tier of guest rewards with Amtrak before their fiscal year rolled over and reset all my flipping tier-qualifying points. I only got that far because of a vacation up to Seattle last year - even with all the travel of my new job I calculate I'll fall far short of qualifying for that first tier again.
@hobbsyoyo Bummer.
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Whenever I took Amtrak the ticket always says "1 Reserved Coach Seat for train XX Departing St Paul at 8:30 am". Do tickets on the west coast work differently because they are run through Amtrak California?
Rant: Making the sleeves on my chainmail shirt are driving me insane. Having to tie together a weave oriented in two different directions is a massive pain - not helped in that I am using fairly small rings. Plus, I ran out of rings so I'm having to take rings off the bottom of the shirt and move them to the sleeves. I was planning on shortening up the shirt anyhow, but it is still annoying having to do extra work. Still need to decide if I'm going to get more rings to make the shirt the length I originally wanted it, but with proper slits for the legs. Depends on how many rings the sleeves end up taking.
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First world problems?
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This wasn't with Amtrak, it was with Metrolink (urban heavy rail). Metrolink tickets are just good for 24 hours and you can activate and use them once on your line at any time it is running (or twice with round trip). They are not up front with that 'good for 24 hours' part, which screwed me over. LA Metro (light rail) just runs on a continuous basis and you swipe a card to hop on. And to add even more confusion, Amtrak tickets work like you said and not like either of the others.
Spoiler This turned into a rave lol :
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Just because I feel like it is my obligation to further your education on all things southern California, from where you are me and Pasadena are almost exactly the same direction.
Gena is lucky to have you. I wish her the best.
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I do know that but they take different routes (and entirely different transit systems) to get to, which was really what I was trying to get at. I didn't think a more detailed look at the geography was useful to my point; the system can take you East-West to almost the same extreme extent as well.
I literally even thought to myself when I wrote that that you were going to say something about them both being due north of me.
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Rant: I use some older programs that use the older help format. But for whatever reason, Microsoft doesn't make WinHlp32 available for Windows 10, just says that developers shouldn't use Windows Help anymore, which is kind of useless for end-users. I tried this but it didn't work for me. 
I ended up using a batch file I found somewhere to extract WinHlp32.exe from the Windows 8 update file and replace the stub in the Windows folder.
I ended up using a batch file I found somewhere to extract WinHlp32.exe from the Windows 8 update file and replace the stub in the Windows folder.
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Predictable, perhaps pedantic, but at least you know I'm looking out for you!
Why do people bother me when I'm trying to eat at work? I can go the whole day without anyone coming into my office, but the moment I try to eat my lunch, all of a sudden everyone wants to talk to me. And it's not even important crap either. It's always minor issues that could easily be brought to my attention through email or something.
I'm about to start locking my office door when I'm eating lunch.
I'm about to start locking my office door when I'm eating lunch.
When automated scheduling calendars first came out the only time a meeting could be scheduled if you had enough brass in it was at lunch or after hours. I had to start blocking that time off my calendar every day to avoid that trap. Sometimes my boss would come over and ask why he couldn't ever schedule me for a meeting. I hated that place. 90% of your day was meetings and half the meeting was spent deciding when the followup meeting was going to be.
I would have told him the truth: He can't schedule me for a meeting because I don't want to be scheduled for one.
I think whenever someone comes into my office to talk while I'm eating I'm just going to be very passive-aggressively rude to them by just constantly saying "uh-huh" and eating as loudly as I can while they are talking.
I hate that too (though people can't come into my actual office) Sometimes when I'm on like back-to-back meetings, and I'd be thinking about how I can't wait for this one to end so I can go take my lunch, and then an invite for another one comes through for right after. EUGH! No, leave me alone please.
I routinely block out chunks of time on my calendar just to prevent meeting invites.
I routinely block out chunks of time on my calendar just to prevent meeting invites.
Then as far as I'm concerned you're working. Put a sign on your desk saying you're eating and will happily get back to them when you're done and whenever someone comes up, just point at the sign and keep eating. I know it sounds silly but you have to take part of the blame for being bothered.
Maybe. But I guess I just see it as a common courtesy thing. If I see someone eating or on a phone call or whatever, I'll come back later. Especially if what I'm coming to talk to them about isn't an emergency or something else that requires immediate action. I just wish people would afford me the same courtesy.
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