Remembrance Day Video - the guns fall silent (spoken word)

https://youtu.be/n4CfnrLwEEk

Long time no post

Been a while since I last posted to this blog but I've been trying to think about the direction I wish to go for this blog.

I've been trying to do the whole vlog side of things but it has a strange feeling to me. So trying to make it any sort of habit is proving to be difficult thus far, but I'm still trying as I feel it would be a good insight to some of my days and me in general.

I have posted to my YouTube channel a few vlogs already very short and totally nothing fancy at all.

Here is one of them that I did, will link the others shortly. https://youtu.be/WdrZF43Dc1U

Last Day of #FE2015

Well its been a good con, we've sold a lot of the items we brought with us, not everything unfortuatnly but we did come away in the plus side of things (though not by much if you factor in the cost of the room). 

We've both enjoyed the con and being in the dealers den, and its been interesting talking with various con goers over the chose of the weekend. I've made a few commissions and sales of items that we brought with us, n's not sold the suit so it will be going onto furbuy in short order to try and sell it. N did get a commission to do something and possibly a couple partial suits - but we're waiting on the people getting back to him on those matters since it was all talk and no payment save one person who has put payment down so that will be one of the things that gets started on in very short order. 

Final tally for the con was...

1051 people attended the con over the course of three days (up from about 910 last year)

285 people where in the Fursuit parade that took place on Saturday (up from 250 last year)

Over 9k was raised for the <a href="http://mississaugahumanesociety.com" title="Mississauga Humane Society" target="_blank">mississauga humane society</a> which is our annual charity that the con has chosen to raise funds for each year (up from 7k last year). 

Well take care everyone, post more later tonight if possible.

FitBit Stats for Feb 23rd to Mar 1st 2015

38,569 steps

59 floors

28.99 km

18,588 calories

Cravings for various food items

There are many articles around the web, printed in various newspapers and magazines they each give their advice on cravings and how its either a weakness of yours if you give in or some other thing if you don't give in or do just a little.

Well I for one can't say its good or bad to give in because to me it all depends on what it is you are giving into and the reasons behind giving into that craving that makes the difference. Why do I feel or even think this? Simple because to me cravings have their place within a healthy lifestyle and for some people can actually be helpful indicators to what the body is needing (regardless of what some science sites and studies say on the matter).

You seen when I have a craving there is always a reason for it, I use to crave Beef and Broccoli and when I did I knew my iron levels where on the low side (and yes tests proved me to be right) so I'd ramp up my eating of foods that are high in iron and poof there would go the craving.

If I had craving for sticky rice to me it meant that I was craving more carbs thus the best way to ditch the craving was to increase my intake of carbs, even if that meant having an extra apple, grapes or some other fruit or veggie that would be a good carb load (though I do admit to giving in to having the rice, but I also found wild rice did do the trick and a small amount with a meal actually wasn't a bad option on occasion).

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DSMA: Fill-in-the-blanks

Q1. The current state of diabetes technology is good in general but should be a world of a lot better then it currently is.

Q2. I wish my meter would connect to my mac instead of only being able to connect to a windows comp.

Q3. I want my cell phone to do be an iPhone to help me with my diabetes management.

Q4. I wish my insurance company paid for everything because as it is I can't afford anything that I'm taking.

Q5. I wish Pharma would ?? because ?? (no idea what Pharma is).


Q6. I spend 30 minutes w/ my Physician/Endo. After the appointment I feel like I'm no further ahead then I was when I arrived at times.

Q7. One thing I want my Physician/Endo to know about my diabetes is that I am NOT my mom (I've told him time and time again) but it still seems like he thinks I should be able to control things as she has, but I'm not her and I can't do it as she's dun it, its just not in my cards to be able to do so.

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Second Life and Direct Delivery on Marketplace = #fail

Well its been rolled out for a while now, but there don't seem to be any actual fixes in the works (or if there is, they have not yet been implemented). What am I talking about? Simple Second Life has a external/internal section called MarketPlace that allows in world creators to sell their wears though the second life site itself to other's in world without having to have an in world store for the Avatar to go to and you don't even have to be online and in world for them to look at what you have on offer, they just look at your listening and if they like it they log in and buy it and it gets delivered to them directly without them having to go to a store in-world or anything.

The issue is that the original workings which had been in place long before Linden Labs took over the company (Market Place was once an independently owned company that LL bought out), and up till now though there was errors they where not bad enough to cause to much issues but that's in the pass and the new changes are leaving many merchants in the dark and dust in some cases.

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