Almost three months since my last entry. Boring life, for sure.
So, we're all doing fine. Brian had a followup MRI for his kidney removal and an X-ray a couple of weeks later. It's all good!
It's hot. Then it's cold, then it's hot. Then it's cloudy and yucky and then it's hot and miserable. Here in these parts known as "May gray" and "June gloom".
Cats are great. No problems since last year (knocking on wood).
I've been playing with DVDFab software for a few years now, adding video to my NAS system (which I run Plex from). I've downloaded a bunch of old shows that we're watching again. Like Moonlighting, NYPD Blue, Dallas, Twilight Zone. Just last week I got the Tommyknockers DVD and ripped it to a hard drive. It didn't have any subtitles with the way I ripped it, so I used one of the DVDFab programs to generate the subtitles and it did a great job.
I think my Lasik wore out. I'm sad about that. Back when I had the surgery, I was told I did have the beginning of cataracts, so I'll be keeping that in mind. I really don't want to have to start wearing glasses again. I'm okay with reading glasses, I wouldn't go for the mono sight option (one eye for distance, the other for close).
I've also been learning how to use some of the crafting tools I have. The latest is a Glimmer machine that I got last summer. I've done a couple of test runs and am happy with it. I did find out that using the plates with the Sizzix that were warped (in other words, used) that the results were not optimal. Tried brand new plates and, yeah, that's the way to go. I'm getting ready to make a video with what I've done. I'm pretty excited about that.
For example - the first photo is just the foil, the second I've colored in. I got this hot foil plate on Amazon.
I have a bunch of different hot foil plates and I'm going to experiment with them. I'll save the results and most likely use them in cards. What fun! One thing I have learned is that there are two types of reactive foil. One is heat reactive, which the Glimmer uses. The other is toner reactive. Toner as it laser toner. The foil adheres to the toner on a laser printed page. The Minc (basically a laminator machine) uses this.
And what else has been happening....
A Facebook friend is dealing with diabetes and I'm following her progress. Even though I'm no longer taking the Metformin (for me, it was like a colonoscopy prep on a daily basis and I was getting sick because food went right through me) I'm still taking my glucose twice a day. From what the FB friend has shared, exercise really helps. For the last month, I've been on the treadmill twice a day, just for fifteen minutes each, but my readings have dropped considerably. I started with just the morning because my morning readings, after having not eaten for ten to twelve hours, was always higher than my late afternoon reading. I think it might have been the "dawn phenomenon". The exercising has helped a lot. Now, both readings are pretty much the same (between 90 and 110). I'm not losing any weight, but I'm not worried about that.
So, I guess that's it for now. Hopefully, I'll be back before three more months have passed.
Oh, I almost forgot. After almost thirty years, we got the house paid off. That's a great feeling.
Yeah, time flies when you're getting older. Stay safe!
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