I actually THOUGHT that yesterday was the 9th. But just in the evening. Think I was wishing for Friday. But then, since I was probably the first diabetes blog and certainly the oldest dblog maybe posting early was a good idea. Besides, the way that life is lately, I might not have gotten to it today.<\/p>\n
FYI, my first post was in February 2003! That’s OLD in blog years.<\/p>\n
I got into blogging because one of my dreams is to write a textbook for my students. I haven’t decided which group of students, but that’s okay, it will come some day. Teachers write textbooks when they are frustrated with the ones in existence. And I have written much of the curriculum for my kiddos.<\/p>\n
Everything I’ve read about writing, is that you have to practice the skill, just like any other skill. I know I’m not a story telling. That’s okay, because the writing I’ve done all my career has been technical writing, and textbook writing AND this blog is just an extension.<\/p>\n
Career — technical writing — yeah, I identify myself, first and foremost as a programmer. As I tell my students, if you can’t document what you do as a programmer, you might as well not. I am quite sure that over 60% of what I did professionally involved writing documentation, not code.<\/p>\n
Picking diabetes and my overall health secondary was a good choice. It allows me to vent when I get frustrated and allows me to collect information and share it. Lots of times I’ve been a pioneer in using something. Both Symlin and Dexcom come to mind. Especially since I’m often one of the first Type 2’s to try new technology.<\/p>\n
Anyway, blogging has been good. I’ve tried and do have blog about teaching, but there are a lot of things I just can’t blog about when it comes to my teaching life. <\/p>\n
I can’t say Happy when it comes to diabetes, especially since for me, it’s a dark shadow that follows me always. Watching someone die of diabetes was NOT fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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