You'd think they'd know better

This month I ordered my second ever 100 gb M-disc.

The first one had been sent in this ridiculously over-sized (more than a foot square padded envelope.

Which I thought at the time was stupid, both for the size, and for the fact that the jewel cases for optical media tend to crack if you look at them sideways.

This month it was a smaller padded envelope. And the case cover was badly cracked. The disc looked ok.

When I tried to burn it it got an error after only a few minutes. This time I looked on the writing surface. Glaring white crack in the writing surface, that went across most of the writing surface.

I'm returning it (thankfully for free) for being "broken or defective".

You'd think they'd know better than to ship them this way. At $25 a pop, even with their markup this has to be a significant hit.

Ugh. Not fun at all

Last night I laid down in bed to do some reading and maybe take a nap.

A short time later, I had a painful ache in my gut and it felt like I was going to need the toilet *bad*.

I also started sweating like crazy.

Tried to get out of bad but got incredibly dizzy before I was halfway to sitting up.

Fortunately I has able to reach my phone and texted Fay. Turned out she wasn't home. After a few texts back and forth, she dropped what she was doing and headed home. Fortunately, she has a key to my apartment (for this sort of thing as well as other things)

Anyway, when she got here, she dragged over some stuff for me from elsewhere in the apartment. First check was my temperature. No fever. Ooo-kay.

Then I tried to check my blood sugar. And I do mean *tried*. It turns out to be next to impossible to do a proper "stick" while laying down on your side. Had to get fay to help me sit up before I could get it done right.

I'd expected it to be a hypoglycemic episode, but nope.Blood sugar was high, not low. WTF?

( possible TMI )