@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.
At last things are sliding into place. I'm confident enough to walk around 200 metres without any walking aids at all and can manage slippery wet areas OK. Plus the eczema in my hands and psoriasis on one elbow have cleared up sufficiently to allow me to attend the local hydrotherapy pool. I shall be there tomorrow at the opening time of 5:30am.
I have a 6th gen 8GB iPod Nano (the one that could be put on a band and used as a watch) but its sleep/wake button ans the volume up and down buttons are unresponsive, gummed up with who knows what.
So I bought a 16GB 7th gen version from a secondhand online dealer which arrived today. It's very small, only twice the size of a CompactFlash media card. But it nhas Bluetooth 4.0, a Lightning port and headphone jack, volume up and down plus play/pause and sleep/wake buttons that do work. The other controls are via the 2.5-inch glass touchscreen. I've loaded up 6GB of music and 1.5GB of videos onto the thing and it will replace the 6th gen in the car as my main music storage.
The pic shows it beside a CF card for comparison purposes.
@variablepulserate Here's a case in point: Trying to use my M1 Mac mini as a trade-in with Apple brings up the rather unpleasant news that my Mac is ready to be recycled whereas it's valued at $490 by this company.