Tons o' stuff

And the weight was up again today, thanks to that blender full of yogurt and frozen fruit before bedtime, though finishing the rye loaf with potted meat for dinner (lunch?) probably didn't help. BP was normal, BG was nominal.

I slept in until noon after getting up at 0300 again, and then being awakened at 0900 by Nicole the property manager, who wanted me to come in and sign some papers, which I agreed to do at 1300. Managed to get up, get dressed, shave, and get down there early only to wait for fifteen minutes for her to get back from the BK.

Which is where I went after signing several papers. I was worrying a little about my income, but she said it didn't matter since I'm not getting a rent subsidy. So that was good news. Got my burgers & O-rings, flipped the portal at the cemetery while munching, then stopped by the post office to mail my stern note to Intermountain Healthcare and pick up the package from the VA, which turned out to be a shitload of filters and masks. Did a little more Ingress on the way home, but it was hot and I was running out of Diet Coke.

After the last French playthrough collapsed because 1) I stupidly missed one tile on the Belgian border and 2) the Huns broke through at Sedan anyway, I tried something different - instead of the Popular Front tree with all its free factories, I took the Bloc route and kicked the Commies to the curb early using the focus instead of the political point option. I also cunningly deployed a mess of divisions as colonial brigades, and upgraded them to full infantry divisions when war broke out in early 1940. Radar was in place, the skies were full of MS406 fighters, and I had carefully reviewed the tiles to make sure not a single one on the main front or in Savoy was missed. As matters stand now, the lines are static in both locations, the colonials are chasing the Italians back toward Tripoli, and the navy is butchering the Italians all over the Med. It's almost November 1940, de Lattre de Tassigny is building up a reserve army in Paris, and if things stay stable, I may have DeGaulle push into Northern Italy. 

It doesn't really fit under family drama (but it certainly isn't friends) but Lois called tonight and bent my ear about various stuff. She sounds a lot better now that she's moved off to Red Wing

(thursday)

Weight came down, BG was almost normal, and BP was normal.  

Woke up to a phone call from Lois asking to borrow $200, which I didn't have. 

Spent part of this afternoon finding paperwork for Nicole and spent the rest of it holding the Huns at bay in France while unleashing de Lattre de Tassigny, Bigeard, and Freydenberg on the hapless Italians, who were crushed along with the Afrika Korps outside of Tobruk. DeGaulle's thrust into northern Italy didn't work as well, and I returned him to the reserve in Reims. Improvement of the Armee de l'Air and the tank corps has continued, with medium TDs joining the motorized divisions, medium tanks replacing the light tanks in the DLMs, and SPA/AA/AT guns reinforcing the cavalry divisions, which in fact make up most of de Lattre's African army. Think I need to train some Marine divisions and maybe some paratroops to take Italy or perhaps the Benelux. 

Did the daily bloggage and then went off to Raley's, where I spent a lot more on food than I originally intended...almost $25 on meat alone, between bacon and brats. Also got tea, Gatorade, pork rinds, yogurt (the Mountain High Greek was $3/quart , half & half, frozen onions & mixed veggies, and some Sargento cheese that was on sale for $3. They're only 7 ounces...shrinkflation & Bidenflation! Also, some on-sale bagels and cream cheese spread, which wasn't on sale. 

Made a loaf of bread but screwed up and added too much flour/not enough water, so that didn't turn out well. Guess I'll try again tomorrow. 

I think I screwed up and took Levemir before dinner instead of Novolin. I'll fix that in a few minutes as I get ready for bed. Tomorrow, major bill paying, more groceries, and probably some ingress.