Daynotes On A Budget, V6.0

I learned a long time ago there are things I can control, I can do something about, or things that are going to happen, and all I can do is focus on what I can affect. So of late, I've been working on looking for and applying for jobs.  I've used a lot of web sites over the years, and there are some that are really useful, and some that sure look like they might want to be some day when they figure out what it is they want to do.  Linked-In certainly seems like the second type.   My challenge is, with well over two decades of IT experience, my resume leans that way.  Which does mean that I've got a great deal of experience testing things, finding the one comma or minor detail that seriously affects a very long line of other operations.  For example, one task I was given at a new job was figuring out why a particular operation worked sometimes, and didn't at others.  I often joke that there are some problems that are "location problems."  That is, ...

 As both of my regular readers know, I've known I've been diabetic since August of 2008.   Over that time, I've developed a routine that gets me through the day. Initially I would start my day with finger-sticks.  That is, I'd deliberately poke the tip of one of my fingers with a tool that made it bleed, then put a drop of that blood onto a test strip - a little piece of plastic and other things, I'm sure, which, when stuffed into a meter, would tell me a number that represented the amount of glucose in my blood.  I'd look for a number above 100, below 120.  I say "above 100" because if it drops below 100, I can start feeling it.   As a kid, there were times where I would skip supper in the evening.  It usually had something to do with what we were having for dinner.  It's not that my mother was a bad cook - she definitely was not - but there were times when I didn't like what we were having, and the rule in our house was that you ate wh...