The Colbert Report should be interesting tonight...

Finally watched last night because I am slow that way. I thought it was an excellent way to handle it. The Stephen Colbert of the Colbert Report isn't the person replacing Letterman. His closing shows are likely going to be more about him leaving, not about the future. sniff sniff I will miss the Colbert we know and love, but I am looking forward to seeing more of his talent revealed.

I'm sorry Sean. It is good to have an end date.

Sorry, Calli. I slept like the dead. I have been sleeping well for many years now but it still comes as a delightful surprise after decades of insomnia. It's like every morning I wake and think, WOW I slept great! Then again, I notice that it is beautiful weather pretty much every day in Florida. That is likely because I didn't move here until I was 30 and had a lot of crap weather before then. I never take for granted either good sleep or good weather and am grateful for both.

I didn't sleep much at all, but had a weird dream too!

I was attempting to do surgery with a group of people who were totally Grey's Anatomy angsty. For some reason, our surgical masks were nylons ala bank robbers.

At one point, a voice said, "It is so much easier than you are making it." I became lucid at this point and asked, "What's the easier way?!"

You guessed it. No reply.

There's now a facebook page suggesting Sherman Alexie replace the Colbert slot on Comedy Central. Ha, wouldn't that be great? [link]

I can walk again! I can sit again! I can stand again! I am so inexpressibly joyous that the blasted contrast dye is finally out of my hip joint. Ok, so it still hurts, but back to a reasonable baseline pain.

This tech rehearsal feels like a scene out of a Marx Brothers movie.

Geez, erin, that sounds kind of awful. Boo pain!

I hope that the Marx Brothers part is not affecting you, ND--that it's more of the "hah, look at the ridiculousness" and not "OMG what are you people doing?"

I made a super easy shirt today. But it's not quite finished. I had to go buy more stuff, and then I got home and had to go to the gym, and then to eat. Now, though...now I will....uh, take a shower. And THEN I will finish it! ...good thing I didn't have any actual Saturday night plans or anything. Sigh.

Something really weird is going on with my blood sugar. At first glance seems good weird but ....

OK for a long time was a non-insulin dependent diabetic. The blood sugar went out of control so PCP put we on insulin. I did the increase-a-unit-at-a-time-until-you-reach-goal thing. Turned out that 50 units stablized me well - for about three days. But then one morning my fasting blood sugar was 56, which was dangerously low. That was after my evening blood sugar had been 209 which is not great. Since then I've been maintaining goal with NO insulin. My evening blood sugar was 126, and even without insulin I use a snack to raise to 140 to avoid a crash tomorrow morning. Going to talk with my doctor. But going from needing 50 units of lantus to needing zero is weird. No change in lifestyle. Same exercise and moderate carb diet I've had for years. The only change is my breakfast salad switched from spinach+chicken breast to kale+chicken breas salad cause kale was on sale. (I use homemade sweet dressing, so salad for breakfast is moderate, not low carb)

I'm glad your hip's better, Erin.

Typo, that is weird. Maybe kale really is the wonder food advertisers claim.

That's great, Typo. When I dropped my cholesterol 100 points my doctor's advice was, "whatever you are doing, keep doing it."