On Saturday, I went for a little 6K run. When I finished, my Suunto watch just sat there saving the activity. After a couple of hours of that, I restarted the watch. The run was lost, of course. Fortunately, I've been running with my Huawei Gt2e, and so my run was still recorded. I managed to export the activity to Strava via FitnessSyncer, and ( Read more... )

The other gadgets I got with my new phone are:

Smart Scale:
This scale measures weight as well as body fat contact, and links it to the Huawei Health app with Bluetooth. Neat.

Freebuds 4i
The Freebuds wireless earphones seem to be like the Apple Airpods. The sound quality is excellent, and they're pretty smart; music stops if I take one out, and it's ( Read more... )

I have a new phone. I've had my Huawei Mate 20 Pro for 2.5 years, and it's still an amazing phone - fast, reliable, great camera. There was not any phone good enough for me to upgrade to, until the Mate 40 Pro came along. The Huawei Mate 40 Pro was released overseas in November, but as usual, we get stuff months later, and then someone one a forum ( Read more... )

It's interesting the changes in clothing I've seen since I started working.

When I first started working for my dad, I wore a jacket and tie every day. The next company I worked at, I didn't generally wear a jacket, but always had a tie. The first computer company I worked at was collared shirt, often a tie, sometimes jacket as well. After that, in ( Read more... )

Here's a pic of the running shoes I've used over the last 5 years:


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D&D is going very well (with the Monday group, at any rate!). We've been running on Foundry VTT for remote gaming. I downloaded a town for Foundry, complete with various buildings all set up, and I fleshed out the plot suggestions with townsfolk, creatures, plots, etc. It a lot of prep work, but very enjoyable. Foundry is a really amazing system, ( Read more... )

I suspect the whole world breathed a sigh of relief with the result of the US presidential elections. All except for 70 million Trump voters...WTF is wrong with those people that they think he's done anything worthwhile for the US? It's obvious there are some major, major systemic issues in the US, and it's not something that can get fixed quickly ( Read more... )

Poor Wallace had a nasty experience the other day. We were out running, and were quite close to a house's palisade fence, behind which an excited border collie was running back and forth. Wallace, excited to meet another dog, got a bit too close, and the collie popped its head through the bars, latched onto Wallace's nose, and pulled back through ( Read more... )

I took leave last week, but basically relaxed at home and got a few things done. No work for a week was nice!

I did finally finish my RAF transporter and Tomahawk model kits, and here they are. Cole crane, RAF Queen Mary trailer with lorry, Curtiss Tomahawk plane with wing removed for transport, a military policeman and two motorcycle riders.


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Yesterday we took Nicky on her final journey to the vet. He'd said we should check her gums to see if she had internal bleeding, and the gums were bone white. She could no longer get up the little step into the kitchen, and was pretty much sleeping all day. We don't really know when we lost the real Nicky personality; she'd felt old and tired for ( Read more... )