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Er, I looked into i.ibb.co. most people say its a website that can hijack your device.

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Sunday, Sunday. Not doing much today. Last Sunday which was my birthday I was on and off the phone with friends in Alberta. Made for an interesting morning.

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Sunday, Sunday. Not doing much today. Last Sunday which was my birthday I was on and off the phone with friends in Alberta. Made for an interesting morning.

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I hope you had a nice time BRENDA.
Do you like birthday parties? I never did. Not even mine. Too shy I guess.


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I hope that you still have the originals, SIX. It would be a shame to lose them for good.

At some point I'd like to post pix, when more progress is being made.

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What I think I read is that ibb is used for advertising, and that some of the links in those images have malicious code in it if you click on it. Sends you to sites you might not otherwise go to.

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That doesn't make sense to me that it would affect linux bc as I inderstand it linux won't run code from an internet file unless you enable it. (Unfortunately there are a lot of unsecure scripts, including javascript that you HAVE to run for sites to work.)

But Windows?? It'll run ANYTHING from your email: Spreadsheets! Editors! Malware! I suppose they cleaned that up, a lot, but our agency was an MS shop and every few years our IT dept had to play whack-a-mole with something that propagated thru Outlook.

No idea how secure Android is. I have permissions fairly restricted, and NoScript loaded, and one thing it can't do is "download unknown apps". I suppose the rule of thumb is the same: Don't click on any links you don't recognize. So I guess wandering around ibb and randomly sampling files is probably not a good idea.

But yours are ok.

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What prob for news images being tracked here? Copyright?

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Gotsea. Ah yes, I remember tubgirl. Fun times!

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Regular mah jong game for me tomorrow.

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Regular mah jong game for me tomorrow.

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I hope your drain got cleared and your game went well.


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Hope your weather is good!

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I don't know what happened but I actually slept really really well last night.

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BTW SIX, in perusing my records I see someone thinks I have Type 1.5 diabetes. Not sure about that dx either!!!

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Yeah, they categorize LADA as Type 1.5.

But except for the fact that I have some deep, as yet (IMHO) undxed autoimmune disorder(s) and I have mild diabetes, I seem to have nothing in common with LADA.


I think I got my diabetes the old fashioned way: being fat and getting old.

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Yeah, they categorize LADA as Type 1.5.

But except for the fact that I have some deep, as yet (IMHO) undxed autoimmune disorder(s) and I have mild diabetes, I seem to have nothing in common with LADA.


I think I got my diabetes the old fashioned way: being fat and getting old.

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So "mild" diabetes is something you have lived with for a while or at least suspected you've lived with then? I don't remember you talking about this before. If you suspect that, you should at least get the A1C and try to figure out if it's pre-diabetes or Type II. You can back your way out of being a prediabetic. But even if it is full-blow type II, it's much more easy to manage than LADA/I. A little change in diet, a little more physical action on a daily basis even on days that you aren't doing physical work on your house or garden... at worst probably remembering to take a pill of Metformin and Glipizide or two every day.

I know you're bogged down with tons of other medical crap at the moment, but it would be worth figuring this part out sooner than later and know what you'd be dealing with or even the possibility that you're catching something early that can be fixed.

I never thought of you as a big gal before. You're always so busy and getting so much stuff done, I always imagined you like my mom's mom who was always energetic never really put on the weight in her later years. If you're big enough to have a concern that your weight contributed to a possibly diabetes diagnosis, I find it even more impressive you get everything that you do done on top of the amount of time you spend every day taking care of other people too.


I've probably said some hurtful things over the years because I don't hold back when I talk about being fat. I'm sorry if I ever offended you, and I also appreciate that you either understood where it was coming from and/or you just never made an issue of it.

Jesus Christ.... I've always imagined Brenda as a skinny little thing too. Now I have to apologize to you too if my imagined version of Brenda was not at all reality and if you're reading this Brenda.



I just had some people I care about die because of their weight issues, and others I care about that I'm worried about their current quality of living and their longevity because of their weight issues. I wasn't ever a prick about being fat before, but years of the Lefty Media and Pop Culture Media trying to promote being fat as something great and "you just go out and be you" really got me agonized and antagonized on the issue.

I get it. People are fat, and most of them are never going to do what needs to be done to fix that. Facts are facts. And the fact is that many of the reasons that people suffer with weight issues really aren't all that different than my struggle with alcohol was and my relationship with cigarettes continues to be today. And because of my own struggles I completely empathize with the obese. If being skinny and healthy were easy, everybody would do it, just as if having a healthy relationship with alcohol and mind altering drugs were easy there never would have been alcoholics or drug addicts or even those no-good "smokers".

And it doesn't feel good to be shamed for anything Maybe we shouldn't go out of our way to shame people for being overweight. But I draw the line on telling people that it's perfectly acceptable to be fat if that's who you are and there are no health consequences for making that decision to just live like that and never consider taking on the hard task of getting back into shape when that's just so obviously the opposite of reality.

It's one thing to dive right into our addiction of choice, but it's another to lie to ourselves about it and reason things away. I have no disillusions that these cigarettes aren't going to kill me if I don't quit them. Anybody who is overweight should at least be taught as much as I was about the negative effects of their personal choices as I was as a smoker. I was told nearly every day either on TV or at school what smoking was going to do to me if I made that choice to start the habit, and because of that I also knowing full well how hard it would be to quit if I ever did. And it just REALLY gets me mad when people online, especially in the media try to classify being overweight as not being as bad for you as smoking or excessive drinking is. And I'm sure the way that schools are run today that those kids never get told any of this. It's a tragedy that an entire generation of American kids have now grown up never being told how important keeping in good shape is all their lives, let alone not having that truth hammered into them during their formative years.


Anyway... This whole weight issue is one of my lesser pet peeves when it comes to the lies we're being told everyday in our current reality. It shouldn't be too difficult I would think to not talk about it. I'll try to make a point not to bring it up ever again, in the garden our out of it if it bothers anybody. And this will be the last time that I make a general apology about it.

I hope you get all these things sorted out and that you're not really diabetic Sigs.




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If I watch my diet, without meds I qualify as "prediabetic" or mildly diabetic. But given the state of my kidneys and the fact that one of my cancer meds can deteriorate heart muscle, I've been put on Jardiance, an oral med. (I could do with metformin but supposedly Jardiance shows more benefit for kidneys and heart.)

It's not something I think a whole lot about. I take my pill, keep my carbs and sugar under reasonable control, and so far it's all been OK. Altho, given I've been on and off Prednisone for the past six months, I expect my A1C will be higher!

It's hubby I pay more attention to. His blood sugar is too high even on 3 meds. I cook very diabetes friendly meals. For example, salad with a serving of meat and a half cup of beans for bfast. Nuts for snacks. No starches with dinner. But he eats what he shouldn't.

AFA weight... well that's on me. I put on weight when I was terribly terribly sleepy deprived. Once when our daughter was sinking into epileptic dementia, and I was preparing her medically- supervised ketogenic meals (3 grams total carbs per day, 12 grams of protein) and had to weigh her food to the nearest gram, while working a full time job and taking care of MIL. Between the sleeplessness, stress, and anguish, those years probably took 10 years off my life.

The second time, I had (yet another) sinus infection which was asymptomatic except for losing my sense of smell and really really bad sleep apnea. Which I didn't know about. But that accounted for why I was falling asleep at stoplights and stress eating.

That happened over a few years each time, separated by a few decades. But with all the stress in my life, I never got my act together enough, and it was only when I had my sinuses roto-rootered that I was able to make progress.

No worries.

It is what it is, and I'm so old and have so many other things going on with me and family, being sensitive about it is not on my to- do list!


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If I watch my diet, without meds I qualify as "prediabetic" or mildly diabetic. But given the state of my kidneys and the fact that one of my cancer meds can deteriorate heart muscle, I've been put on Jardiance, an oral med. (I could do with metformin but supposedly Jardiance shows more benefit for kidneys and heart.)

It's not something I think a whole lot about. I take my pill, keep my carbs and sugar under reasonable control, and so far it's all been OK. Altho, given I've been on and off Prednisone for the past six months, I expect my A1C will be higher!

It's hubby I pay more attention to. His blood sugar is too high even on 3 meds. I cook very diabetes friendly meals. For example, salad with a serving of meat and a half cup of beans for bfast. Nuts for snacks. No starches with dinner. But he eats what he shouldn't.

AFA weight... well that's on me. I put on weight when I was terribly terribly sleepy deprived. Once when our daughter was sinking into epileptic dementia, and I was preparing her medically- supervised ketogenic meals (3 grams total carbs per day, 12 grams of protein) and had to weigh her food to the nearest gram, while working a full time job and taking care of MIL. Between the sleeplessness, stress, and anguish, those years probably took 10 years off my life.

The second time, I had (yet another) sinus infection which was asymptomatic except for losing my sense of smell and really really bad sleep apnea. Which I didn't know about. But that accounted for why I was falling asleep at stoplights and stress eating.

That happened over a few years each time, separated by a few decades. But with all the stress in my life, I never got my act together enough, and it was only when I had my sinuses roto-rootered that I was able to make progress.

No worries.

It is what it is, and I'm so old and have so many other things going on with me and family, being sensitive about it is not on my to- do list!


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Nothing to apologize to me for, SIX. As I am a probably only a little over 100 pounds.

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I remember those pictures of lung cancer I was shown in elementary school. Went home and told my dad about them as he was a smoker. No affect on him. Think he might have been able to quite if he wanted to but he didn't see the point.

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Nothing to apologize to me for, SIX. As I am a probably only a little over 100 pounds.

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OMG... Those things were TERRIBLE!

I remember one day when I was in 2nd grade the 6th grade class was showing off their anti-smoking project and we walked down one of the hallways and through the two 6th grade classes where they had all their demonstrations set up.

The one that I can still picture in my head is a picture of some guy who looks like he vomited blood up all over himself (but it looked like it was just sloppy joe). They were telling us that if you smoked cigarettes that you would eventually destroy your lungs and die after vomiting up your destroyed lungs.

I started crying and I couldn't do the rest of the thing. Both my parents smoked and I was terrified the rest of the day that I'd go home and find my mom dead with her lungs vomited up.

And despite that story, it still didn't work on me in the long run.



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Belated Happy T-day, BRENDA!

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Back and done for today. No luck at mah jong.

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Back and done for today. No luck at mah jong.

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