Perspectives of a Canadian in the Old/Deep/New/Geographic South: This is where I ramble on about nothing in particular and post a few nice pictures.
At my 4 month follow up appointment today my HbA1C was down to 6.2% from 11.9% at my initial diagnosis.
Fasting blood glucose levels have been staying in the 100-110 range, although I haven’t been very good at sticking to my reduced carb diet lately, so it crept up into the 120s for a couple of weeks.
Back to the gym next week and back to cutting down the carbs. Maybe I’ll be able to get things below 6% and 100 mg/dl for my next doctor’s visit in May.
Tickets for BarcampCHS the Third just went on sale through Eventbrite.
There are three levels of tickets available: attendee ($10), individual sponsor ($25) and generous sponsor (>$25).
Go get your tickets now while they’re hot!
This year’s BarcampCHS also features a poster contest: You Are the Face of BarCamp. Go ahead, submit something.
BarcampCHS can always use more sponsors. Sponsors help make BarcampCHS a great event and it’s a great way to reach out to some of the brightest people in the area. If you’re interested in becoming a sponsor or know someone who might be interested, contact the organizers.
Hit up 17 North for Charleston Restaurant Week this evening. Nice place, good food, a little on the loud side though.
A very thick, rich and tasty butternut squash bisque
Shrimp and grits
Pan fried grouper
There was a ribeye involved as well, but the picture was too out of focus. Guess I’ll have to go back.
Dessert ended up in my belly before I remembered to take a picture.
Spending a long weekend among 50k+ of the geekiest and nerdiest and generally awesome(-est) people around takes a while to recover from, especially for introvert types like me.
This year my friends and I dressed up for the first time. Nothing grand, but my friend said we should wear bathrobes in the grand Hooligan tradition. Then I found these Star Trek bathrobes at ThinkGeek.
They were pretty awesome and got a great reaction from other people. We were the away team in bath robes. People wanted to take photos of us. It’s very interesting to be on that side of DragonCon where people are asking to take photos of you instead of taking photos of others in costume.
We also had some Jedi robes with us, but they didn’t get nearly the reaction that the Star Trek robes got.
DragonCon seemed a lot more crowded this year. One of my friends also seemed to think there were a lot more DragonCon newbies this year too. Registration was orders of magnitude better this year than it was last year. Kudos to the organizers for making changes to improve the registration process. To manage the crowds for panels and sessions, I think organizers moved the lines for the more popular sessions and panels outside, rather than have lines of people snaking around inside. That resulted in really long intimidating looking lines heading outside and around buildings. Made it a little easier to move around inside, but it was a little confusing.
As usual, I spent most of my time in the Space and Science tracks. All the sessions I went to were packed this year with lots of people being turned away once the rooms were full. Didn’t do much autograph seeking this year, and only made one trip through the Walk of Fame.
Lots of photos were taken, lots of cool costumes. It kind of seemed like there weren’t quite as many people in costume this year, although I didn’t spend a lot of time wandering around like I did previous years so I probably just didn’t see them.
My complete collection of photos for DragonCon 2011 and the parade are over in the gallery.
Join the rest of the world in some photowalking fun! Whether you’re a seasoned pro or trying to figure out your first camera, come walk with people who love photography!
In Charleston you have two photo walks to choose from on October 1. The first one in the morning starts at the Visitors Center on Meeting St and will wander down towards Liberty Square and the Aquarium.
The second one is in the evening at Waterfront Park at Concord and Vendue Range. If the weather is cooperative, there should be some nice shots with some late afternoon/early evening light. Then when it gets dark it will be time to have some fun playing with light.
Feel free to join either one or both! Sign up for whichever photowalk you want to participate in. Find one in your city to join!