Dieter's Blog
Big Lesson
The big lesson (so far) from the medical stuff I'm experiencing seems to be:If you're diabetic and you start to get sick, be more serious than usual about checking your sugar levels.
I know a lot of us on oral medications are less vigorous about sugar checks than the doctor's orders, but getting sick can throw things way off balance.
The other, smaller, lesson: if you can't figure out which a la carte hospital dining experience is right for you, you can probably order a 'house tray', and they'll send up a variety of things you won't like without the troublesome decision process.
Hoping to be back in a bit. Thanks all for your support. -D
Laundromatic
I know I've mentioned credit card operated laundromat machines before, so taking a moment to share.
The card-equipped machines seem to charge a significantly higher fee than the coin machines elsewhere.
My old favorite laundromat (with the coin pusher) got remodeled out of existence, so I'm stuck wandering forever in search of a good place to refresh my socks. Since I'm away from my usual haunts (and my current favored laundromat), and needs must.. the convenience is nice, but you miss the opportunity to stick the rest of your coins into a Galaga machine.
The Blackjack Kid
The 5 year old decided to 'borrow' my phone to play a (non-cash) blackjack game.Quote: Her summary
They are only trying to get your ID and your money.
Nobody should play this game.
Tell everybody in the world.
Tell your ex-girlfriends.
Now she only played for about ten minutes, and her play was hampered by a tendency to pile all her chips on the spot every round, but she did get the basics of hit to 17 and stand against a weak dealer upcard.
She did think that the rainbow $1M chips were pretty cool, and appreciated getting dealt blackjacks.
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Pinball Frustration
Between balls going off the playfield and sticky flippers, it's really starting to annoy.
Still, I suppose I did play about 14 games off my initial 5 credits, so enjoyable. Hopefully the route operator comes around and fixes the table a bit before my next trip through.
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Sometimes you can ask the proprietor who the route operator is, then contact that operator know about the issues. If they care about people putting money into their machines, they'll come out and fix it. Especially if they like playing their own games!
…then contact that operator and let them know about the issues.
There is a label with the name and contact information for the route service.
Unfortunately, it's a low traffic location.
The only real "repairs" I've seen in the last 4 years are a piece of blue masking tape being added over the slot on the left coin mechanism, because it has been jamming for at least that long.
They actually made repairs!
The drop target which had been snapped off a long time ago was working, the out of bounds balls had been returned, and the blue masking tape was off the coin slot.
I did manage to get one ball stuck someplace, so the irksome "1 BALL MISSING" and partial self test happened with every credit, but it's back to being more fun.
19 games off 15 purchased credits.
Great to hear! And great to hear you're putting in money to reward their work! I feel for the repair folks — they have to make some choices on how they're going to spend their repair time.
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Variance at the change machine
At a stop along my journey, I decided to play a little casual pinball. I usually play a bit when I'm in the neighborhood, so nothing bad there.Realized I had not enough coins to play, so I hit up the change machine. $2 in, $2.25 out. Cha-ching! Good variance! 10/10, will play again!
They finally replaced the busted old pinball table they had with a newer, less busted pinball table. Unfortunately, while the entire playfield works on the newer one, the coin mechanism does NOT. $2.50 in, but it only bought me two 50 cent games. (Something internally wrong. Had to push the return button in before dropping a coin to get it to tally the half credit.) I guess I understand how they can run a change machine with a bonus round.
Nothing exciting on the game. Stern Monopoly has never been to my taste, but it was fun actually getting all the flippers to wiggle.
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get well soon sir
something tells me you are type 1 .... only recently found out they think that is cause by the immune system attacking the islets of Langerhans ... not sure how long they've known that
Get well soon, D. I hope you will consider some form of very high aerobic exercise in your weekly regimen. The current science has shown it to be highly effective in controlling diabetes. As a Type 2, I used to swim 3,000 meters a day five days a week up until I was age 73. My glucose levels rarely got above 120 with my A1C usually below 6.5. I could eat most anything without any repercussions.
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Code for you're in jail? Get paroled soon! :)
I didn't realize how serious your condition was — glad to hear you're on the mend! Rest up and get back here when you're ready for the sillier parts of life!
Hang in there! Doesn't sound like fun at all, but at least you're on the way to recovery.