Pool open and other stuff

 

May was relatively cool, and we only opened the pool this week. It is now a blistering 73 degrees in the water. That is too cold for my blood. Rose and Daniel are full of vim and vigor, though, and have gone swimming three times. The first time the water was 65!

I always watch them, even though they are excellent swimmers. But they are young and not always as careful as they could be so yes, I think they need a parent keeping an eye out.

I took Daniel to his well teen checkup last week. He is a chunk and the pediatrician said something about how maybe we needed to keep an eye on his weight.

If he was my first son I might be nervous, but given that his older two brothers grew like crazy during puberty, and were far too thin, I am very happy Daniel has some stored calories to fuel his growth. He is fine.

I also had a doctor appointment. My latest A1c was 6.1. I am up to 2000 mg of metformin a day.

Sometimes I get really whiny and tired of my eating limitations. And then I pull myself up by my metaphorical bootstraps and remember how blessed I am that there are a bunch of things I CAN eat.

Maybe if I reach 95 years of age I will just start eating lots of carbs. At that point, maybe it won't matter?

That's a long way off.

Anyway, it was a good week and I am thankful the pool is open. Our latest book is doing well, in spite of Amazon having some issues with the ranking. Every Kindle book that has ever sold a copy, or is in KU and had at least one page read, has a ranking from Amazon. This changes over time, of course; new books in the P and P variation niche usually rise to at least #5000 quickly. When we released this latest book 9 days ago, it sat at #30,000 for several days. That ... is not right. Amazon sometimes has trouble with things getting hung up, and it does matter because Best Seller Banners in various catagories help drive sales.

Anyway, finally Amazon pulled together and the book rose to about #1100. That isn't bad, but usually our books hit at least #500. So yes, still not quite right.

Whatever. We are selling quite a bit and people like the book so I am going to be happy with that!