23:48 3/7/2003...
Karen and I slept in fairly late today, after keeping JD and Annette up late last night... poor people had to work today.
JD called about 11:00, when I was through with my first cuppa coffee. He had a proposition for us... he wanted to know if we would participate in his study that he's doing at work... he needed some more controls. Karen and I agreed, and he came by and picked us up and took us down to his office. He works at MD Anderson, doing research on cancer patients, so we got to see the medical complex, very impressive. Annette works down there too, so she brought lunch up to us while we completed the surveys.
One of his co-workers had drawn blood on us shortly after we got there, and then the survey questions took maybe 90 minutes or so. After that, we went over to the main hospital across the street and got some very expensive coffee and sat out in a very pleasant interior courtyard waiting for Annette to get done seeing her patients.
She got done, and we went to the parking lot on a shuttle, then went back to their apartment. JD and I then went on a quest to get some patch cords and a router, but all that we could find was an Office Depot, and they didn't have a router and their patch cords were ten bucks apiece... highway robbery. We decided to wait on that.
We came back home, since JD is not familiar with the neighborhood enough to know where any other electronic/computer stores are. Shortly thereafter, we all set off to eat at a chinese buffet, the East Coast Buffet.
And I overdid it, by a bunch.
Very good meal, and we probably all overdid it, but I was the only one checking their blood sugar later in the evening....
So after we ate, we decided to take a tour of downtown. The weather was beautiful this evening, and we had the windows down and the sun roof open, gawking at the huge beautiful buildings all over the place. Karen and I were really impressed with downtown Houston.
We came home about 21:30 and I checked the blood glucose... 183 it was. Well, I guess that I learned something tonight... I think that the egg drop soup was all carbs, but I did have a pretty good helping of pudding for desert. And I trimmed most of the breading off of the chicken for the sweet and sour chicken... but I'll bet that the sweet and sour sauce is pretty high carb stuff too.
All in all, it has been a most enjoyable day. After we got home, Annette showed me a game, Cubis in which she is a master, and I am, and shall remain, a mere novice. It's a more mental game than most time sinks on the net, but that's not really saying that much about it, heh.
Then JD and Annette and I sat around and BSed, and sometime in there Karen went off to bed. And I think that it's time for me to do that too... I have been overwhelmed with Houston today, and that makes me very tired.