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Friday, October 15th, 2004 06:25 pm
What is it with time of day? Evenings are bad, mornings are good (unless a particularly bad evening carries through the night and only starts to fade late in the next morning). What's with this? Stress? Sitting in a chair?? And what about that every-other-day pattern? Since I've been paying attention (granted, only since Sunday really), it's been like clockwork.

Okay, here's the log I am starting.
1) What foods I eat, how much, and when in the day. Drinks too, particularly caffeine, sugar, or anything carbonated.
2) How well I slept the previous night - probably just a number of hours.
3) Guesstimated stress level or mood, scale of one to ten or something simple like that.
4) Pain level, with time of day.
5) Flow, probably on a numerical scale.

Must find a way to graph this, at least 2-5 on a single chart plotted against time. Excel maybe?

Other ideas of stuff to write down? May as well make it as complicated annoying comprehensive as possible.
Friday, October 15th, 2004 06:44 pm (UTC)
I keep both a blood sugar (including blood pressure, meds taken, etc.) diary and a sleep diary, both in Word format. Want templates?
Friday, October 15th, 2004 06:48 pm (UTC)
Wow, cool. Can Word grab the information you've entered and plot it onto a graph?
Friday, October 15th, 2004 07:00 pm (UTC)
I don't know, but I think you can grab the table and import it into excel.
Friday, October 15th, 2004 07:11 pm (UTC)
Okay, I think I'll just keep it in Excel to begin with then. But thank you!
Friday, October 15th, 2004 07:13 pm (UTC)
Whoops, already sent 'em. Just delete. I'm sorry about that.
Friday, October 15th, 2004 07:17 pm (UTC)
No apology necessary - I thank you for sending 'em. Who knows, I might learn something about Word. :-)
Friday, October 15th, 2004 07:07 pm (UTC)
Excel charts would do everything you want to do here, and more. You could do multiple regression of your pain factor data, if you wanted to, in Excel.
Friday, October 15th, 2004 07:12 pm (UTC)
Excel-lent. I'll get started on entering the data, and I'll figure out the graphing functionality later.
Saturday, October 16th, 2004 10:23 am (UTC)
w00t, geek health!