Diabetes Blog – Happy-Medium.netI wasn’t going to post today (still feeling awful), but then I saw this. You may have seen this already, courtesy of BuzzFeed: “26 Moments That Restored Our Faith In Humanity This Year”.
Bella and Deidre of the AT1 JDRF Capitol and Maryland Chapters group on Facebook turned me on to this photo, number 8, yesterday:
Happy Hump Day!
One quick diabetes-related note, then a couple of photos… I’ll have more to share on the big D later in the week.
The Great Spousal Unit and I will be attending the Maryland JDRF’s T1D Connections Open House at the chapter headquarters in Linthicum Wednesday night from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. Anyone with a diagnosis or connection to a diagnosis is welcome to attend. If you’d like to be there, Click Here to RSVP.
December has begun. And I promised to share some photos as I make my way through the holiday season. The first is from the front of our house, where we got the lights up on Friday. The red, green, and blue lights you see are actually inverted tomato cages from the vegetable garden. We turn them upside down, clip them to different heights, and string the lights. They look sort of like little Christmas trees.
The second photo is from our neighborhood. Every year Santa comes and lights up the tree in one of our common areas. The neighbors who live next to the tree open their porches to everyone and share cookies and warm beverages. Despite the fact that the lighting took place toward the end of the Ravens game (which they lost anyway), we still managed to get around 200 people for the celebration.
Enjoy the start of your week.
I got a few photos last week, and they’re totally non-diabetes related, but I wanted to share them before they’re too old.
About a week and a half back, Baltimore hosted something called the Star-Spangled Sailabration. It’s part of many events the city will be hosting over the next couple of years, celebrating America’s (and Baltimore’s) involvement in the War of 1812. For this celebration, several tall sailing ships, and some naval vessels, came into Baltimore’s inner harbor from around the world. It was a very cool spectacle watching them sail in, and then sail out, of the harbor.
I was able to get these photos while the ships were leaving the harbor last Tuesday. They are either taken from my desk, or from the window by my desk at work. Just a lucky spot to be.
I’ll get back to the diabetes-related stuff very soon. In the meantime, here are the photos:
This is the only American ship I could catch. Sorry… I had too many meetings to get a photo of everything.
This is a Mexican vessel. If you look closely, you’ll see sailors stationed up on the masts of the ship. All the way up. Don’t believe me? Check out the next photo.
Don’t worry… there’s a rope behind each of the sailors that they’re holding onto. But still, it can’t be easy standing up there.
This ship is from Columbia. The sailors are doing the same thing here, but the sailors are easier to see.
It’s been an extremely busy week. I haven’t had a chance to get much posted this week, and I have a lot to get off of my chest, and it’s frustrating me. And I’m still busy. So I only have time right now to post those photos I’ve been promising since Monday. Have a great (and restful) weekend!
All photos are courtesy of The Great Spousal Unit.
Before the race. See that look on my face? That’s 50% sleep deprivation, 50% abject fear. Can I make it 100 miles?
Looking everything over one more time. I didn’t know then that this bike would be an absolute gem all day long. Smooth as silk.
The crowd at the start of the Century (ride). Smaller than I remember.
At the start… I’m trying simultaneously to get clipped into my pedals and keep from getting run over.
The next time someone with a camera caught me, at the mile 80 rest stop. If you look closely, you can see the Chesapeake Bay in the reflection off of my sunglasses. Obviously, I had no idea of the hell that was to come.
This is the hell that was to come. Only 20 miles later, I collapsed just past the finish line. This photo was taken about 10 minutes before I was taken to the ER. I can’t believe how pale I look here.
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