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Aug. 3rd, 2010 03:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamsharkIt's National Night Out tonight - don't miss your neighborhood block club meeting!
I finally passed my Gamma level skating test! It's not a huge deal, as I still have one more level to pass before I can move out of basics and into one of the advanced classes (Moves in the Field is what I want to do next). But it's a good time to get it out of the way since I've signed up for a short set of lessons at a new rink in August. It will be a lot easier to explain what level I'm at now that I can say - "I've just passed Gamma" instead of listing the moves I can do and the ones I'm working on. I can now officially do forward outside 3 turns, inside mohawks and a (really lame) hockey stop. To pass the final basics level I just need: forward inside 3-turns, lunge and bunny hop.
Richard got his latest blood test results, and his A1C is down to 5.7! And he's done it with diet alone, no drugs. I'm so proud of him. (For the non-diabetics: A1C is a measurement of blood glucose levels over time. Under 6.0 is normal. 6.0-6.9 is considered good control for someone known to be diabetic. 7.0+ is trouble.)
I finally passed my Gamma level skating test! It's not a huge deal, as I still have one more level to pass before I can move out of basics and into one of the advanced classes (Moves in the Field is what I want to do next). But it's a good time to get it out of the way since I've signed up for a short set of lessons at a new rink in August. It will be a lot easier to explain what level I'm at now that I can say - "I've just passed Gamma" instead of listing the moves I can do and the ones I'm working on. I can now officially do forward outside 3 turns, inside mohawks and a (really lame) hockey stop. To pass the final basics level I just need: forward inside 3-turns, lunge and bunny hop.
Richard got his latest blood test results, and his A1C is down to 5.7! And he's done it with diet alone, no drugs. I'm so proud of him. (For the non-diabetics: A1C is a measurement of blood glucose levels over time. Under 6.0 is normal. 6.0-6.9 is considered good control for someone known to be diabetic. 7.0+ is trouble.)
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Date: 2010-08-03 08:29 pm (UTC)And very glad that Richard is doing so well with that.
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Date: 2010-08-03 09:44 pm (UTC)No NNO on my block, if I were home. Everyone hates at least some of the neighbors over there. Often but not always different ones.
K.
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Date: 2010-08-03 10:12 pm (UTC)I have other plans than NNO, but I will at least be out and about.
P.
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Date: 2010-08-03 11:12 pm (UTC)Have fun tonight!
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Date: 2010-08-04 01:33 am (UTC)Annoyingly, it looks like my neighborhood has nothing planned for NNO. I googled and came up empty. I even looked through the silly list the official website had and we're not on it.:(