The Anchorage, Part 3

[Miss B]

Dialing it back a notch is the first step Pen, and it often makes a huge difference. A good friend of mine had a scare a couple of months ago when her A1C shot up to 10. She started dialing it back, and within a little over 3 months she had it down to 8. Not bad for just 3 months, so hopefully it'll get a lot better before the summer's over. She was already on pills because her sugar was a little high, but she wasn't necessarily a full-blown diabetic, but her mother was. Whether or not that's a hereditary condition later in life, I'm not sure. I think you can pass the condition from mother to child, but she's never had a problem until a couple of years ago, whereas her mother was diabetic (with insulin) all 35+ years I knew her.

Funny that you mention reading from your tablet while you ride. At my gym, they have large TV monitors by the treadmills , and I'm always watching one of them when I'm on one of the treadmills.

 

[Pendraia]

lol...apparently lots of people watch stuff on their tablets as the manufacturer includes a little ledge for it. Wouldn't take a thick book very well but I mainly read on my tablet these days.

 

[Hornet3d]

OK, here it is;

Terre's Homemade Sugar Free Minty Dark Chocolate

4 oz unsweetened baking chocolate
4TBSP + 1TSP Steviva BLend
4 TBSP butter/margarine (I use butter)
1 TSP vanilla extract
1/4 TSP peppermint extract

Powder the Steviva Blend in a coffee grinder.
Melt chocolate and butter. Add extracts and stir until thoroughly melted.
Stir in sweetener until smooth.
Pour into molds or onto a cookie sheet. Let cool and refrigerate.
This MUST stay in the fridge except for the pieces you intend to eat right then. Since there is no lecithin of any kind it's a "Melt on everything in seconds" type of candy.

Thanks for that, I really do appreciate it. Shopping day tomorrow so I will look for the ingredients tomorrow and give it ago. Thanks for the warning with keeping it refrigerated.

 

[Hornet3d]

Dialing it back a notich is the first step Pen, and it often makes a huge difference. A good friend of mine had a scare a couple of months ago when her A1C shot up to 10. She started dialing it back, and within a little over 3 months she had it down to 8. Not bad for just 3 months, so hopefully it'll get a lot better before the summer's over. She was already on pills because her sugar was a little high, but she wasn't necessarily a full-blown diabetic, but her mother was. Whether or not that's a hereditary condition later in life, I'm not sure. I think you can pass the condition from mother to child, but she's never had a problem until a couple of years ago, whereas her mother was diabetic (with insulin) all 35+ years I knew her.

Funny that you mention reading from your tablet while you ride. At my gym, they have large TV monitors by the treadmills , and I'm always watching one of them when I'm on one of the treadmills.

The advice from doctors seems to be there is an hereditary factor but there is no guarantee that offspring will get it, just makes them more likely. I am the only one in my family that has diabetes but I do tend to be a closer match to my mothers side of the family in many things and it is her side that has the history of diabetes. The rest of my family take more after my father and, so far, all of them have remained clear.

 

[Miss B]

lol...apparently lots of people watch stuff on their tablets as the manufacturer includes a little ledge for it. Wouldn't take a thick book very well but I mainly read on my tablet these days.

I've seen some of the ladies read magazines while on the treadmill or bike.

 

[Bonnie2001]

lol...apparently lots of people watch stuff on their tablets as the manufacturer includes a little ledge for it. Wouldn't take a thick book very well but I mainly read on my tablet these days.

I don't read books or magazines at all. I prefer to read everything on my phone/tablet and/or PC. It's much more up to the minute and also more friendly to the environment. It's all about saving the trees I believe, but other may not agree with me on that.

 

[McGyver]

I used to ride my bike everywhere when I lived in NYC.
I also used to get hit by cars a lot too.
I didn't ride like a maniac or anything (though I can).
I'd get hit mostly by cabs being cabs and idiots looking for parking spots or doing something ill advised.
I know that's different from an exercise bike which is probably a lot safer, unless you set it up on a major highway and workout there.
I don't have an exercise bike, so I had nothing to add to this conversation, but I still felt compelled to try and participate.
I guess a bicycle is sort of like an exercise bike except that it is easier to get hurt on.
Unless you set up the EB (like that? I shortened it to EB... Very 2016 Twitter, Hu?)... Unless you set it up on the highway or on a window ledge or the roof...
I suppose in a lion cage too...
I think they are very safe and probably better for your health.
It would be pretty cool if someone made an app for those stupid Oculus Rift glasses or other VR headsets that would allow you to bike through virtual environments.
They probably have those already, but I'm too lazy to look.
They should make exercise bikes that you can ride outside... That would be cool.
Oh, wait...
That's a bicycle.
Actually, if you stuck wheels on the ends of crossbars that most EBs have, you could ride around on four tiny wheels outside.
And it would make them more dangerous like a proper bicycle.
I think this is the perfect late night infomercial product.

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No more sitting at home, looking at boring walls while you flail away at a regular exercise bike...
Ride in the park!
Ride to the grocery store!
Get struck by large motorized vehicles!
Ride anywhere that is on absolutely smooth level ground with no obstructions over a 1/2 centimeter tall that will stop the patented tiny useless wheels dead in their tracks!!!
It's fun!
It's safe!
And best yet it's only $19.99 per month for the next 216 years if your order NOW!
Order before midnight tonight and get a free baby turtle with ever purchase (a $2,000 value, yours for free if you act now!)
Offer void anywhere with actual consumer protection laws.

Wow... I made me want one.

Actually, a long time ago someone threw out a weird stepper exercise bike that had a fan for a rear wheel... And no front wheel for a front wheel...
I guess it wasn't much of a bike, but a weird sit down stepper...
I don't know if I ever admitted this but I'm a bit of a junk picker...
Good quality junk only...
I pick stuff up that I think I can make something interesting out of (or cool old furniture I can refinish/repair too)...
And that had a cool gearbox and shifting mechanism.
The person who designed it had obviously never seen a bike rerailer or were trying to avoid doing it simply, but it was actually kinda cool.
I don't know what I thought I could make out of it... Too bad I disassembled it for the parts.
I could've made...
HOV-A-CISE... THE EXERCISE STEPPER THAT FLIES!!
It probably wouldn't actually fly, but it would look real cool rusting away in the woods with the other weird crap.

Well... Have a good day folks.

 

[Miss B]

HOV-A-CISE... THE EXERCISE STEPPER THAT FLIES!!
It probably wouldn't actually fly, but it would look real cool rusting away in the woods with the other weird crap.

 

[Terre]

My oddity for the day:
The closest ocean port to us is Houston ,Texas, Over 500 miles to the south east. So what do I get as customer phoning a question about late this morning?
A fish counter. The kind where you walk up and pick out your fish and they package it up for you.

 

[Terre]

Thanks for that, I really do appreciate it. Shopping day tomorrow so I will look for the ingredients tomorrow and give it ago. Thanks for the warning with keeping it refrigerated.

You're welcome.
I may have to order online the next time I need any of the sweetener. There is one more supplier I can check with to see if I can get it ordered in for the store. If they can't get it then I'll just have to order a case for myself.

 

[Pendraia]

I don't read books or magazines at all. I prefer to read everything on my phone/tablet and/or PC. It's much more up to the minute and also more friendly to the environment. It's all about saving the trees I believe, but other may not agree with me on that.

I mainly read on the tablet as we've run out of room for bookcases but it does save trees.

 

[Satira Capriccio]

While I miss the feel and smell of a book, I ran out of bookshelves a few decades ago. So, the Kindle is definitely a life saver there. Besides, now never running out of a book to read.

But is annoying to buy an eCookbook, and the photos are all black and white.

 

[McGyver]

eReader or Tablet... $150-$800
eBooks... $1 and up...

Flipping quickly back and forth between pages or chapters in a paper book...

Frickin' priceless.


That and you can throw a book at someone really hard and not worry about breaking it.

 

[Hornet3d]

eReader or Tablet... $150-$800
eBooks... $1 and up...

Flipping quickly back and forth between pages or chapters in a paper book...

Frickin' priceless.


That and you can throw a book at someone really hard and not worry about breaking it.

Most of my reading is on the kindle although some of the eBooks make it to the desktop on the odd occasion. Different story when I move to books from my favorite artists such as Jim Burns, the printed books are big and on good quality paper and this tends to add a quality missing on a tablet, for me at least.

 

[StudioMartillo]

Mostly I read on my Sony Reader which is real nice because it can be held in one hand, only weighs 6 ounces, has hundreds of books on it.
But right now I'm reading 'Essentials of Geology' by Lutgens and Tarbuck. Can't get it in e-b00k format because it's a textbook, but it really is a good read. I kind of got bored with the metamorphic rocks chapter though and just skipped to the mass-wasting chapter which has lots of fun stories about avalanches, mud-flows, and landslides.
Oh it has great pictures in it too. One of which inspired me to make a texture of Olivine in lightwave's surface nodes.

 

[Pendraia]

Actually kindle has a function that allows you to do something similar McGver...but I miss the feel of paper books but love the functionality of ebooks.

 

[Miss B]

I've always preferred a real book as well Pen, but since Barnes & Noble closed their store near here 1 1/2 years ago, I'm into eBooks. I'm finding it fairly easy to get used to, and I have a really nice book pillow I got at Amazon, so I don't have to hold my tablet the whole time, because my tablet's larger, and heavier than a Kindle.

The Book Seat

 

[Pendraia]

I have a book pillow that one of my sons gave me...we just recently had a new book store open locally but my fav is Minotaur which specialises in science fantasy and collectibles.

 

[Miss B]

eReader or Tablet... $150-$800

I only paid $50 for my current tablet through my mobile provider.

eBooks... $1 and up...

I think since about the end of the year 2014 I've collected close to 700 eBooks, and about 600 of them were free, and the others were 99¢. I subscribe to a site that sends me daily emails with book offers in the genres I like to read. Any books over 99¢ I just ignore; a good many of which I read years ago in paperback form.

Flipping quickly back and forth between pages or chapters in a paper book...

I don't find flipping back through an eBook all that difficult.

That and you can throw a book at someone really hard and not worry about breaking it.

Yeah, there is that.

 

[Dreamer]

Give me a book any day there is never no room for more books lol