12.26.05
Rant
Insurance….Companies….are….bad. Also, the laws they operate under screw innocent people.
12.21.05
Cholesterol Test
Got my cholesterol test back:
Total: 168 (goal < 200)
HDL: 42 (Goal >40)
LDL: 106 (Goal <130)
Triglycerides: 98 (Goal <150)
BRING ON THE BURGERS!!!!
Fasting blood sugar was also normal, so I’m not diabetic…BRING ON THE CANDY BARS!!!
So…I can pretty much eat whatever I want…I guess I should be watching the sodium a little bit. But…yeah…I don’t want to hear a word from anyone about my eating habits…
12.15.05
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I like that the UW is not only buying me beer, but also paying me to drink it. —Pete Stone, on the Computing and Communications Holiday Party
12.14.05
Tides
Tides came up at work, and we were trying to figure out what the tide numbers were relative to. You would think this would have been easy…but it took a lot of searching to find.
So…
Tides are given in feet above (sometimes below) chart datum. Chart datum is defined (in the United States) by Mean Lower Low Water (MLLW). MLLW is “The average of the lower low water height of each tidal day observed over the National Tidal Datum Epoch” (http://www.baysail.com/tide_terms/gloss_m.html). Lower low water is the lower of the two low tides (or single low tide) in a day. The National Tidal Date Epoch is 19 years, and currently is the period from 1983-2001 (http://co-ops.nos.noaa.gov/datum_update.shtml). I’m mainly posting this just to remind myself since I spent so much time figuring it out.
12.10.05
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Me: …and I’ll be much happier.
Sean: I’m not sure about that…I have a hard time imagining you not being bitter.
BP
138/95
Not dying. This means I just need to cut back a little bit on the salt instead of a lot. And I’m pretty stressed today, anyway…two hours of sleep and all that. Yeehaw…
12.06.05
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Me: I had a physical the other day…my blood pressure was 200 over something.
Brian McNally (co-worker): 200 over butter?
12.05.05
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“Be not mistaken: our cause is never more in doubt than when a human looking out upon a world from which every trace of the Enemy [God] has been banished, asks ‘Why have I been forsaken?’ and yet still obeys.”
—CS Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
(For anyone wondering…The Screwtape Letters is written from the perspective of devils–they are fictional (duh) letters from “Uncle” Screwtape to his nephew, Wormwood, containing advice on how best to get the human he is charged with into hell. It is at or near the top of my favorite book list.)
Note to self
This a reminder to myself…
-post winter retreat summary
-polish and post drafts of other posts you have floating around
-post something clever (wait…aren’t all your posts clever? 
)
-do all that other stuff you need to do
12.02.05
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Matt, don’t poop on anyone today…it would be embarassing for you and them. —Matt Halpin
12.01.05
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Some people suck at riding a bike. Some people suck at driving. Me? I just suck at life. —Pete Stone, co-worker.