A Lovely 10C Site!

@js I can manage plain unadorned Android 7 on a cheap Lenovo tablet. My youngest sister still uses a Nokia Lumia 1020 running Windows Phone 8·1 and its battery is just about useless, only lasting an hour before needing a charge. She just needs a basic phone & it’s looking like she’ll get a new Nokia 6.1, which is an Android One phone. This means it will get the latest “pure” versions of Android as soon as it becomes available.

She’s a technological minimalist, so I’ll have to help her to set up any new phone/tablet she would happen to get.

@js I had tried on the Mac, wasn’t aware of the TopBuzz iOS app. It is available here.

Got three hours of unbroken sleep. Elbow pain & very cold weather making life uncomfortable for the last hour since then.

At last I’ve either relaxed enough or the cocktail of pills I’ve taken has kicked in. The pain from lateral epicondylitis (aka tennis elbow) in my left arm has eased sufficiently for sleep to be attempted.

@js Ah, but which platform are you on? Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android?

@konrad It’s the thought that counts!

// @matigo

Off to get a Meloxicam prescription maded up, it’s a more effective anti-inflammatory than the anti-gout meds I’m currently using.

And now to deal with more of the tennis elbow pain, it’s quite excessive at present & I could well do without it!

Normally I can’t handle coffee much past 3 pm, but I just knocked back a very fine freshly ground medium roast Ethiopian brew. Very smooth with luscious, chocolatey overtones from the mocha beans used. Prepared in the V60 dripper. It’s 5:15 pm.

It’s tennis elbow in the old terminology. Probably strained by moving that 22 kg PowerMac G5 to the car to have it looked at. Treatment is Voltaren gel and flexing the extensor tendon by holding a ball in the hand with the forearm vertical and gently moving the wrist forward and back.