@matigo On of the offshoots on Mastodon is called appdot.net.
// @japchap @variablepulserate
Collected a blood glucose monitoring device today. The kit consists of the electronic tester, 10 sample test strips (use one per day), a device to prick a finger to get a few drops of blood for the tester, 5 lancet needles for the pricker (single use again) with instructions to get more test strips, lancets and a harps disposal container. Being registered with the National Diabetes Support Scheme means I pay $1.20 for 100 test strips, without this subsidy they can cost 50 cents each.
I'm required to test the glucose concentration once per day 2 hours after a meal. The test instrument can be paired with a mobile phone via Bluetooth using an app that lets me create in effect a diary of exercise, diet and glucose lelel daily. This can then be collated into a PDF report which the phone then emails to the local diabetes coordinator.
As long as the reading on the tester is between 3.6 and 10 mmol/l (millimoles per litre) I'm OK. The medication I'm on means it's very unlikely to drop below that into the danger zone.
@variablepulserate I doubt there was much money in that part of Ireland in the 1820s/1830s. And he did get one before he was 40: He was 39 when first married.
@variablepulserate He was making up for lost time: he was 19 years older than his first wife, she was 21 when they married. He remarried a year after her death aged 31, he was 51 while she was 22. This marriage lasted 13 years before she died aged 35.
Found some more genealogy info on my great-great-great grandfather who was born in 1781 and died in 1889. He had outlived his first two wives and his third one was 60 when he died, she only lasted another 5 years.
He fathered 16 children between 1822 and 1868 and at least 6 of them lived into their 80s. We are descendants of his third-born daughter by his first wife.
@variablepulserate Not that weird: the gym in the adjoining building is open 24/7. 5:30 am gives folk time to get their aquatic exercises in before work.
I suspect I've overdone the aquatic exercising this morning, really feeling it in the thighs. I concentrated mostly on walking forward, backward and sideways for over an hour it the nice warm water. I intend to visit ever 2nd weekday, thereby getting 5 visits per fortnight. My membership costs 4 times the price of a walk-in member of the public, so going 5 times per fortnight means I'm getting better value.
@matigo The Nanos seemed like a hobby to me: the 1st one emphasised squareness: it was an angular rectangle with a square screen. The next one was almost the same but with rounded sides aka the old iPod Mini. Then came the "Chubby" 3rd gen with a 2-in rectangular screen across the top above the click-wheel. The 4th gen reverted to a long thin style with the same 2-in screen oriented vertically.
Gen 5 brought the most changes, it had a bigger screen (2.2-in), a VGA camera and a tiny speaker. To fit the bigger screen, the click-wheel was reduced in size.
Next was the more radical 6th gen, similar to the Shuffle, a square body with a big spring clip on the back and a square glass touchscreen. The speaker, microphone and camera were gone.
The 7th gen went to a rectangular form factor again, but with a 2.5-in glass touchscreen in portrait orientation. this picked up Bluetooth so it could connect to certain medical devices as well as for audio output. The 30-pin connector of previous Nano models was replaced by the Lightning port.