I checked my Jawbone Fitness Tracker when I woke up yesterday morning, and I wondered about its math for a moment.
From 1:32 to 9:08 is less than eight hours. How did it figure I slept so much? Oh, yes. Daylight Savings Time went off at 2 A.M.
The interesting thing is our local newspaper didn’t mention it. In the past they always warned us, but even though the price has gone up to $76/year for 5 days a week, the quality of the news is still going down. The other day they had a picture of some of the road construction that makes it hard to get to our local library. The caption said “Construction will continue until it gets too cold to continue.” That was so uninformative I phoned the paper and talked to the fellow who wrote it. He didn’t see anything wrong with the caption.
He said the people he talked to were vague. They said they plan to be done by early spring at the latest, but they might get done sooner if the weather is good. He added, “Oh, that might make a good story.” Well, yes, people might be interested to know when this major disruption might be over.
Anyway, the question is why do we continue to give them so much money each year? Andy does like their daily Sudokus and the comics (which have also gone downhill). And (very) occasionally they do have an article of interest. I’ll let him decide.
Any little questions in your life?
November 3, 2014
No, I have only big questions in my life.:-)
That doesn’t sound like fun. For me the little questions are connected with curiosity and wonder. Think of 3- and 4-year-olds exploring the world by asking, “Why?”
Is REM (rapid eye movement) when you dream? Is that the deepest sleep?
No, deep sleep (important for physical health) is different from REM sleep (when you dream, important for mental health) and from light sleep. My Jawbone doesn’t talk about REM sleep, don’t know where that comes in their guesses, maybe in what they call deep sleep?
The Jawbone tries to guess, depending on how much the sleeper moves. It doesn’t have a clue what’s doing on with the brain and the eyes. I still think it’s interesting. It encourages me to try to sleep more efficiently, and it’s fun. A lot of the time I forget to switch to the sleep mode, so it doesn’t help at all.
Pray tell, how does one “sleep more efficiently”?
You try to be relaxed when you go to bed so you don’t toss and turn.
It also means I’m trying not to stay in bed so long if I have trouble sleeping. I’m more apt to get up, get something done, and take a nap later if I need it.
pray tell.
LOLOL!!!
i will miss you guys.
the new current little question in my life is how to handle this computer addiction i have… and the tendency i have for blood clots. one or the other wins.
having pain in my right leg this time. just like the other pain in the left before.
at least it’s familiar. enough so that he’s got me back on xaralto.
then they’ll do another ultra sound to keep track.
so… i’ll eat all my smug words i ever said about addicted people… you know…
“why is it always all or nothing with them?” and i will be staying offline again for a good while. i tell you. this is getting really BORING!!! i know you’re tired of it too.
pray tell when will it end? LOLOL. i’ll see you when i see you. and thinking of all you all. but then you know that. XOXO
Oh! I will miss you terribly! Would gently riding a stationary bike and connecting to your friends using a tablet computer work? Having to disconnect from your friends can’t be the solution.
I’m so sorry this this happening to you. You’ve already been through so much.
DITTO!!! I’ll miss your Light Touch to the blog. We need that to go along with all our Seriousness.
Our local newspaper is laughable… but, I still sometimes feel like I should be supporting them. After all, it is the local newspaper that I turn to for local stuff – like during our terrible floods last year or when a local is in a car wreck on our hazardous roads… Yet, I find myself so disgusted with so many news sources that sometimes I just want to get a NYT subscription and not read/watch anything else (except NPR).
We’ve gotten the Wall Street Journal for years, and Andy reads most of it every day. I now scan the print version and if an article captures my fancy I usually read it online. I also subscribe to the digital version of the New York Times — I read more articles there. It’s $15/month and I get my money’s worth. And I subscribe to the headlines of the Washington Post (free) and to Foreign Policy (I think I paid $36 for a year). Both of those are online. It’s easier on my eyes to read print on the computer than in regular newspapers.
I’m late, but yes Tammy – you will be missed… However, I can’t see why you can’t be online – especially I’m sure your innards won’t know the difference – and it is a way to forget about that stuff as you enjoy yourself.
As for news, well no much tells you here anymore that clocks are moving again – except in the morning when your computer clock is swinging to a different tune err time…
road works are a fact of life around this region – right now on my street berm is a tangle of sandbags and metal signs – the workmen come at night and make all kinds of noises out there on the road. I don’t even know what they are doing because come morning the signage is down and I can’t see any progress at all…
Roadwork here has disrupted traffic all summer/early fall. Some of the businesses downtown have been badly hurt. The downtown part is finally finished, but it’s not nearly as charming as it was before because they took out so many trees.
I did phone our Public Works department right after I talked to the newspaper. I left a message, and they got back to me today. They say the road I wrote about will hopefully be finished in two weeks. We’ll see. It was good of the fellow to actually phone.
On Tuesday evening I go out with a friend and we get back here around 9.15pm – last week our usual route home was disrupted. There were no signs at the beginning of Portage Rd that we would have to make decisions in the dark on how to get through to Delta Av.
We usually turn left at the bottom into Great North Road and sharp right into Stock St…but our way was blocked – road closed, large machine and many men. Now if we had been coming down the other way – we would have sailed on through…
we had to turn Right and that led us into a quandary because going “up/around/back” would have taken ages…our respective brains were not functioning. We finally turned up a driveway and turned around and retraced off down Portage Rd, where found a detour sign to go down Hetana Street – at the end of which the detour sign run out…no more were sighted!
By then we could fathom out that we should go further along Totara and turn into Memorial and across at Gt North into Hugh Brown and around into Delta…but we were coming to my house on a different axis and we were unsure!!
It is interesting that we get into habits of years and then we can’t fathom out something in the dark as well as we might want…