Still under the severe weather warning though when I went out for my walk this morning it was lovely and sunny, currently the clouds comes and goes, I think the main threat is further south.
I bought myself a smart watch which arrived this morning. it was on special for $47 on the weekend.
It has Alexi AI built in but I just haven’t turned that on… My only complaint is the date is the usual MM/DD format and you can’t seem to change it, I would have thought that being a screen you would be able to.
Anyway I will give it a go.
Am waiting for the grass to dry so I can give it a quick mow, all that rain yesterday made it go mad overnight.
I hope the weather improves I was thinking of a few days in the Snowy Mountains next week but won’t go if it is going to rain.
Not much going on with me today, am having a food free day but no real jobs except perhaps the mowing and that really depends on the weather, though I might wander down to Supercheap to get some chain oil for my chainsaw.
another wet day , ?I sat waiting for my phone appointment last night with the Nurse it never arrived , so ignorant , if I didn’t turn up for an appointment I wonder what they would say .
Heard nothing regarding the MRI scan I had last November either .Such a lacksy daisy way of going on now days .
I wonder if the smart watch will take the place of a smart phone , if it can make and receive calls ,seems a more conveniant way of carry it .
First thank you for all the kind comments they really are appreciated. Spoke to my brother again, he said Mum is still very ill but now has some colour in her cheeks, is taking her medication and she answered him when he spoke to her, she still isn’t eating but I think the nursing home will find a way to get some nourishment into her. We are still concerned about her but are hopeful she will recover (she is a stubborn one!!). Once again, many thanks for the support
Today I have an appointment with the hairdresser and then some food shopping
Good Morning from Foxy’s World…
Wall to wall cloud with spots of rain while out on my walk (4 degrees C) and not forecast to get any better for the next couple of days.
Got some good work done in the loft yesterday, moved a switch and erected some conduit from one end of the loft to the other for the new fibre. I kept banging my head on beams and other stuff, I thought I’d gone three rounds with Joe Bugner by the time I finished. The cobwebs were everywhere and I couldn’t help thinking what lay therein…
The fibre took ages to thread through because it had come off a reel and kept twisting together and it was long enough to do all the street but I daren’t cut it until the bloke turns up.
Surfermom, I’ve had it on good authority (from my daughter) that a ‘Router’ pronounced ‘rooter’ is used for wifi and a ‘router’ is used for shaping wood…
Don’t you just hate young folk stealing our words…
And be careful of your knees while decorating, they were not meant to be kneeled on…Especially for runners. And you don’t want them looking like Mr Mops knees from the cleaning agency do you…
Apparently the entire planet is soakieg wet; it’s raining here too. No run for me today.
I am relieved to read about your mom @SheilaP and hope she starts eating again. I know your brother must be very concerned.
@Bruce, I hope you enjoy your smart watch. Mine is really a running watch, and I could probably use one with phone call capability - but as long as this one is working, I will muddle along.
Eliza, I am so surprised by your MRI wait time, and hope you get some answers quickly!
Haha, @OGF, your knee comments gave me a good tickle. I treat my knees like they have a separate personality since they seem to have a will of their own. I should probably name them . Knocking you head about seems a high price for fiber wiring but word is that it is very reliable. As I sit here on the edge of the planet with barely a decent cell phone signal, I envy you this newer technology.
I’m knee deep in the two building projects at the summer place today. Sometimes I envy the lunching ladies with their pretty jewelry, coiffed hair, and flawless nails, but alas, that doesn’t keep buildings standing, so I shall not complain.
The only other news is that “dog factory” is complete - the dogs smell like shampoo, their coats are shiny, they have had their treats, and the pile of used towels are tumbling in the dryer. It is a happy little victory.
Have a fine day and someone get on with getting that sun shining again!
I’m sorry if my post offended any of you down under Bruce…
I think ‘Router’ pronounced ‘rooter’ was meant to ‘Route’ something, as in the internet or wifi…
I made a phone call using the watch last night just to try it out, it flashes up all my phone notifications, so it seemed OK.
This is a cheap watch it has sports and activity things on it, it constantly counts steps (in that department I have lowered my expectations from 10000 to 8000) and measures things like heart rate, oxygen levels etc (accuracy??).
I suspect I will use in mainly for telling the time - the other things are a novelty at the moment
Ha Ha
Sorry guys, but it reminded me of my daughter and her hubby when they both got a smartwatch.
Every time I saw them they couldn’t wait to tell me how many steps they had done that day, and how well they had slept, or how many calories they had consumed, or how their heart rates had fluctuated, how many metres they had ascended, or how long they had sat down resting…
It even logged how many toilet visits they took…Well maybe not toilet visits, but you get the picture. This went on for several months and then not a dicky bird…
I recently asked them what had happened to their smartphones? They replied…“Oh! they are in the back of a drawer somewhere”…
It is basically just a watch - I have worn a watch since 1980 I doubt this will change that, the notifications from my phone are handy because it vibrates, I can feel that whereas I can’t hear my phone beeping.
The sports/health info is of no interest to me though steps are on the main screen with the time, if they are accurate they are more convenient than a pedometer I used to wear on my belt and are of passing interest.
When I was out walking this morning it vibrated and a symbol with the number 30 flashed up. absolutely no idea what it meant.
Haven’t turned on Alexa and doubt I ever will.
I will wear it until it fails. Other friends of my age have abandoned watches and use the time on their phone but I like wearing a watch. It has different faces, one is just a analog watch face, Roman numerals with day and month, when I get bored with the steps I will probably change to that.
Funny, but the one thing I didn’t want from my smartwatch was the watch feature. With a timepiece of any kind, I find myself checking the time obsessively (a holdover from teaching days when classes were timed to the minute). I somehow inherited my mom’s sense of what time it is in the same way my dogs know it’s dinnertime .
Fair doo’s Bruce, I bought a GPS watch back in 2000 to monitor all my running courses and speed/pace etc, it’s about the size of a bar of soap but more useful. I still use it when doing a new walk, but I prefer a watch on a daily basis…
Funny thing is I didn’t wear a watch until 1980 when I started working in a power station with no clocks except in the control rooms, lost track of time and nearly missed change of shift (or rather my shower prior to change of shift), that weekend I bought a watch and have worn one ever since.
. Knocking you head about seems a high price for fiber wiring but word is that it is very reliable. As I sit here on the edge of the planet with barely a decent cell phone signal, I envy you this newer technology.
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. Distance won’t be so great though.