Just finished setting up the new glucose monitor I ordered a couple weeks ago. Doctor prescribed the wrong test strips for my old one. I let him know, and he sent in the same prescription AGAIN. Finally gave up and ordered one to work with the new strips from Amazon.

Am I doing too much at one time? Watching the live "Tech Guy" podcast on the TV in the room (far left), while keeping up with the IRC chat for the show on the primary desktop monitor (middle), and piddlin' around with Publishers Clearing House games on the far right monitor...


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Random Thought: Sometimes I think I need a second desktop monitor, for those "pesky" FEW live video podcasts that aren't accessible via an app on the Roku so I can watch on the TV in the room while on the PC. Then again, a second monitor would require a bigger desk. Neither is affordable at the moment unfortunately.

At the visit to my primary care doctor yesterday, I again brought up, how sometimes after I eat, I get dizzy and my vision gets all "blown out". He said next time that happens, to test my blood sugar and blood pressure. I told him I didn't have a blood pressure monitor, so he prescribed one. He said he gave instructions to the pharmacy to pick a ( Read more... )

Ugh, what a day! Earlier, I was sitting at my desktop, and suddenly the tower made a loud "pop", then stopped working. Wouldn't power on. Deader than a doornail. Did some online research using the old laptop, determined the power supply was a goner ( Read more... )

Sometimes I think I either need a larger monitor... or a second one...


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Andrew recently got off the bus...


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