glenk

I eat semi-low carb. I've done better than I am right now, but during the spring/summer I was playing basketball/volleyball about 3-4 times a week. Some nights for 2+ hours straight with minimal breaks. Eating low carb and trying to maintain a good blood sugar was pretty tricky for me. You have to eat quickly eat/drink something when you check the blood sugar between games and it goes low, and then you end up having to correct that later with more insulin. I've found low-carb to be fine and maintainable when I'm just working and sitting at my desk all day, but have struggled when trying to combine it with any type of higher intensity activity.

I hadn't realized there was such a difference between cash price and prescription price.

Through work currently we can use a web site to help find your cheapest place for prescriptions. One bottle of Novolin R like you said about is about $25 from Walmart for cash price. One bottle of the same prescription with a discount coupon is $138 dollars.

That's still cheaper than Novolog/Humalog, but how in the world is it more expensive to buy insulin with a prescription and insurance than without? When I pay a 20% co-pay am I essentially paying my insurance company the extra money?

I've been type 1 for over 30 years since I was a toddler. I could stand to lose a few pounds these days, but I am not fat, nor obese. Adjusting my diet would do very little to change the increasingly high amount I spend on insulin.

The cost of insulin over the last few years and as recently as the last few months has skyrocketed. Not just the fancy fast acting insulin, but even the regular stuff that you can buy over the counter without a prescription(R and NPH) has nearly quadrupled in the last 12 years. It's not an increase in manufacturing costs. It's price fixing by the two major players(Lilly and Novo).

You'd think that with Lilly significantly raising their prices a few months ago, that Novo Nordisk could make a killing, but no, they both did it at the same time. Funny how that worked out.

I like the idea, but I'm not real sure about the price and the shipping cost. It says you get a breadboard every month and I assume this is a decent part of the weight. I already have a couple breadboards and how many breadboards does one really need?

Maybe just have a breadboard as an add-on or a separate item? I'd be fine never getting a breadboard in any of the kits.

Bitvise server is $100, but now you want both simple and free? It's well worth the $100 IMO as it's pretty easy to setup and manage accounts and keys. You only said "simple" before, and I consider it pretty simple to get up and running. I didn't pay for it, but $100 one time is pretty negligible for what we use it for.

We do here where I work. We're running Bitvise SSH server on Server R2/2012 and you can use bitvise tunnelier or putty as the client(maybe others, just have used those two myself) and then connect via management studio once the SSH tunnel is connected. We also require both key and password auth. We also do RDP over the SSH connection as you can't remote to those machines directly.

Think about the holodeck from star trek. From an entertainment standpoint, you could immerse yourself in another world and solve a mystery. You could also learn all sorts of stuff with live instructions while working with physical tools when doing things like woodworking or electrical work etc.

It doesn't really say in the article, but did they actually get an even split on the signups or just limited the sign-ups to force it 50-50?