One step forward, one step back

Weight dropped like a rock this morning. Woke up at 0800, long before the alarm, and had both kinds of toast with my flax muffin & coffee, 

Dr. B was training a new guy today, and while he asked all the right questions, he has a long way to go before he's as cute as she is. I'll have some more meds incoming this week, which is good because I'm getting a little low on metformin and Novolin R. We're cutting back on the amlodipine and adjusting the dinnertime Novolin, which I am going to be trying harder to take before dinner. 

Speaking of dinner, it was eclectic. Had the last beer brat (well, it's not really the last, I have two more packs in the freezer) and grilled up some of the bacon I bought last week for a BLT without the L and T. Also did a loaf of white bread in the robot, and this time I was careful to spoon the flour into the measuring cup. Worked out a lot better than it has been these last few times. 

First run with Poland ended in a Russian defeat; individually, my troops were better, but there were just too many Reds. In the second game, the same was true of the Germans, plus I had the headache of a rightist civil war to deal with just as I was beginning to mount a successful drive for Koenigsberg, Guess I'll try it again tomorrow.  

Heard from Karl B. up in Minnesota today. We chatted a lot about writing and selling books. Apparently he has a solid following on Reddit and has a fantasy series that I'm going to look into. 

Zzzz

The corn I had for dinner last night with the brats really did a number on me. I couldn't get to sleep until around 0400 after eating a bowl of yogurt and fruit, and then woke up at 0800. Unable to get back to sleep, I stayed up until late in the afternoon. BP was normal, BG was nominal but low.

Lost another game as the Poles, knocked out the catchup blog for yesterday, and then went out to the post office to get various measuring items I'd ordered from Amazon, a Klaus Schulze CD, and a box of what turned out to be Novolin R from the VA pharmacy. I also took the time to kill a bunch of Blackwasp's portals, most notably at the cemetery, but it's going to take a while to get the zone score down. Right now it's 114-1824 with the most recent checkpoint scores being 277-87.

Got back from picking stuff up and ingressing, wound up napping for a couple of hours, and deciding not to bother with going out to Raley's, since all I want is some tea, and maybe some raisins. 

Dune (the CD) is pretty good. I didn't think I'd like the second track, which features vocals by Arthur Brown, but it's okay.