Well, it's good to know I'm in the right place! (Quiz found on beliefnet)

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1. Neo-Pagan (100%)
2. Unitarian Universalism (98%)
3. New Age (89%)
4. Liberal Quakers (79%)
5. Mahayana Buddhism (73%)
6. Secular Humanism (71%)
7. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (67%)
8. Theravada Buddhism (61%)
9. New Thought (61%)
10. Taoism (60%)
11. Scientology (56%)
12. Hinduism (53%)
13. Reform Judaism (53%)
14. Nontheist (47%)
15. Orthodox Quaker (41%)
16. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (40%)
17. Sikhism (39%)
18. Jainism (37%)
19. Bahá'í Faith (27%)
20. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (20%)
21. Orthodox Judaism (20%)
22. Seventh Day Adventist (19%)
23. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (15%)
24. Eastern Orthodox (11%)
25. Islam (11%)
26. Roman Catholic (11%)
27. Jehovah's Witness (6%)


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http://www.beliefnet.com/story/76/story_7665_1.html

Yesterday

When I came downstairs yesterday morning, my husband gave me a birthday present that I absolutely did not expect: a Canon ZR800 digital video camcorder! Plus a Dynex 1394 Card Bus Adapter (he had to explain to me what that was) and two digital video cassettes.

I admit I've been too busy even to take the camcorder out of the box, even though he jokingly told me that he expected to see a finished documentary from me by evening.

I hadn't really wanted one of these, but in retrospect, it makes sense that he'd decide that if I had one, I'd like it.

( In which the geezerette waxes nostalgic about the good old days of 16 mm film )

So we'll see. But I still need to take it out of the box!

My plan for the morning, before an 11 a.m. meeting with Alison at the UU meetinghouse, was to empty the water trough and install the tank heater. That was nixed as soon as I went out to the barn. I have a gutter on the west side of the barn, and the downspout carries rainwater into the trough. This is in part to keep the water from pooling and making a gloppy mess right there (it's a low spot), and it also means I don't have to fill the tank as often with the hose. On Nov. 26, the trough had been nearly empty; I added just a little water via hose so that the horses could drink before I drained the water and installed the heater on Nov. 27. Well .... I guess it rained really, really hard the night of Nov. 26, because the trough was full yesterday morning! Fortunately, I can still break the thin ice that forms on top. I'll try again when the water level is slurped down a bit.

I met with Alison and the UU meetinghouse office administrator, planning out the calendar of events into Sept. 2008. This is so that we don't have events competing with each other at the same time. It was a long meeting, but very productive, and we generated some new activities. For example, Alison wants to have a seder potluck dinner at the meetinghouse during Passover.  (We have certainly heard about Passover every year from the pulpit, and the children in religious education have had "seders" led by some of our Jewish members, as part of their education about the faith traditions we draw upon, but I don't think the adults (and children) have ever had a seder as a community.)

Then Alison took me out to lunch for my birthday. She got a kick out of the coffee mug I'd bought as a late birthday gift to her.

I ran around doing errands, including picking up tickets in advance for "Enchanted," the new Disney movie that pokes fun at  Disney movies. Then I ran home in time to meet Samurai and drive back down to town to meet my husband at.... Pizza Hut.

( Dinner and a movie )

My husband never did reimburse me for the movie tickets (I thought he was taking me! ?? I think he just forgot that I'd picked up the tickets), but as it happens, my birthday was on a Tuesday, which we didn't know is a special day of the week --  "all shows $5.00!!! " -- so it was only $15 for the three of us. Plus, I never expected him to buy me a digital camcorder!

And I am grateful that he didn't repeat his usual tribute: Buying a bouquet the night before my birthday, leaving it without water overnight in his car to "hide" it, and then "surprising" me with half-dead flowers in the morning.

Maybe he and his youngest sister K share a "clueless-about-how-to-treat-bouquets" gene. 

Today

I went off to Northampton for a session with Kelly, the insulin pump guru, on making "advanced programming settings" on my upgraded insulin pump. There is a feature called Hypo Manager that tells you just how many carbs to consume to get a low BG of a certain mg/dl back up to your target. For those of you who have never had low blood glucose (hypoglycemia), it can feel like an anxiety attack, and thinking can be not quite as sharp as you'd like. Because your brain feels this really desperate need for carbs (orange juice, for example), it is easy to overtreat the problem. Which then leads to high blood glucose, which you don't want, either! Anyway, this new pump is supposed to tell me how many carbs I need to get back into target from various low levels.

Long story short... I had a low of 53 this evening, entered it into the pump, but even though Hypo Manager is enabled, it didn't do anything. I just treated the low as I always do. This post is mainly a reminder to self to check the manual again, and if I can't figure out why the software didn't tell me how many carbs to take, to call Kelly, who said to call if I had any questions.

EDIT: I think I know what I did wrong. I entered the 53 into the pump as I usually enter it, in the "BG Value" menu. If instead I'd entered it into the "Correction Bolus" menu, that would have activated the Hypo Manager.