Not a fitbit
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bill_schubertI got Dana another smart watch. The first one I got her was not very smart at all and it died. The one I just got her looked like it was better but it was run by an app called VeryFit. I occasionally get annoyed with the Fitbit app but now I love it by comparison. VeryFit is VeryCrapful. It throws advertisements and offers at you right and left and has so much noise on it there is no way to figure out what is useful. It lasted a day. Dana and I had a talk and I upgraded her to a Fitbit watch. I'm the one that has to manage the app which is why she has an Android rather than an Iphone in the first place. So her replacement will be a delayed Christmas present and someone will get a good deal on a VeryFit watch through Amazon returns.
She really does need the pulse and O2 readings. It will help her a lot. She doesn't do enough movement for the steps to matter but hope springs eternal. Maybe she will one day.
Today was a pickleball day and I didn't play very well at all. I did exchange notes with a PB friend about getting a lesson for the two of us together. It is a good way to do it. She and I are pretty good partners and getting a lesson together will help us individually and as a team. On the one hand I don't think I'm ever going to compete with any real intent of winning something like a tournament. On the other hand I really should be looking to improve a little bit anyway.
It is warm today and will be even warmer until Friday when it will nearly hit 80 degrees. Gonna be a lot like last year, I guess. I don't mind. Older I get the less I like the cold anyway. It would be fun to see Beaux in the snow but not sure he'd like it much.
It is a quiet week here. We have zero plans for Christmas something about which I do not much care at all. They had Christmas music on at the PB courts. I've managed to avoid it so far but this was unavoidable. Another thousand times around the track with the Chipmonks and Alvin. Sigh.
I underslept last night so I'm about to make up for it. Beaux and Toby are already ahead of me so I need to catch up.
She really does need the pulse and O2 readings. It will help her a lot. She doesn't do enough movement for the steps to matter but hope springs eternal. Maybe she will one day.
Today was a pickleball day and I didn't play very well at all. I did exchange notes with a PB friend about getting a lesson for the two of us together. It is a good way to do it. She and I are pretty good partners and getting a lesson together will help us individually and as a team. On the one hand I don't think I'm ever going to compete with any real intent of winning something like a tournament. On the other hand I really should be looking to improve a little bit anyway.
It is warm today and will be even warmer until Friday when it will nearly hit 80 degrees. Gonna be a lot like last year, I guess. I don't mind. Older I get the less I like the cold anyway. It would be fun to see Beaux in the snow but not sure he'd like it much.
It is a quiet week here. We have zero plans for Christmas something about which I do not much care at all. They had Christmas music on at the PB courts. I've managed to avoid it so far but this was unavoidable. Another thousand times around the track with the Chipmonks and Alvin. Sigh.
I underslept last night so I'm about to make up for it. Beaux and Toby are already ahead of me so I need to catch up.
We had our annual Pottery Smash on Sunday, before the Market opened. It's a charity auction to benefit Market's Kareng/Caring Fund, an emergency relief fund for artists in need. Four long tables of donations, mostly pottery, but also some glass, prayer flags, duck and beaver and frog flappy kids toys, canned albacore. We always bring a few completely unsalable pieces, for the joy of smashing. When the bidders starting getting drowsy, a little Crash! wakes 'em right up. And then there's the vendor who bids on pots specifically to break them. When Nome is bidding against someone, it tends to run up the price.
I sold a tyrannosaurus bank to a paleontologist on Saturday.
I've always complained about how long my poticas take to rise. Four, five hours, sitting on a heating pad, or in a post-firing warm studio; my house doesn't feel that cold!
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LONELY PROMPTS WEEK::22 DECEMBER § DAY 1
Dec. 22nd, 2025 08:13 amDecember 22-26 is Lonely Prompts Week and it will be a challenge week! Each day will have a different theme for you to base the prompts you fill on.
In the past, we used to have a "winner" who completed the most fills every day, and at the end of the week, we'd announce an overall winner. But this time around, we're doing things differently! There are no winners or “losers”, just prompts that have been filled. At the end of the week, we'll be sharing a round-up post of all the lonely prompts that have been filled.
Monday's Theme: Backlog Beginnings
More Information: Start anywhere. Fill any prompt you’ve saved but never started.
If you leave a request, please make sure it follows the theme for the day and that each request is a new comment.
You are more than welcome to fill any and all lonely prompts, but only the prompts filled for the current theme will be counted for the daily totals. I will however include a list of those who filled other prompts when I do the round-up at the end of the week.
Please number your fills when leaving more than one in a comment. This helps me when I'm ready to count them up.
To find those elusive Lonely Prompts, you can go into the Calendar Archives, or for more recent prompts, you can use LJ's advanced search options to find prompts to request and/or fill.
To get things going, a few rules that I ask you all to follow.
1. You can only request five prompts to be filled. Please create a new comment for each prompt request.
2. You can request no more than three prompts from the same fandom.
3. You can, however, fill as many prompts as you'd like!
4. In the subject line, be sure to say whether this is a request or a fill!
5. You must link back to whatever the prompt is in the community logs (whether filling or requesting it be filled), and, if you're filling the prompt, please complete the fill as a response to the original prompt.
6. If you are filling an "any/any" prompt, please let us know what fandom (or, if original, say so!) you're using for the response.
7. If you filled any lonely prompts earlier this week, this is the place to share them!
8. Finally, we now have a community at AO3. If you have an AO3 account, please post your fills there. More information on how to do this is located at this link.
How to link:
[a href="http://comment-fic.livejournal.com/449155.html?thread=70682755#t70682755">MCU, Tony Stark/Pepper Potts, She's wearing daisy dukes and one of his button-down shirts.[/a]
(change the brackets to "<" and ">" respectively)
or:
http://comment-fic.livejournal.com/139897.html?thread=30155641#t30155641
Burn Notice, Sam/Michael/Fi, "It's always been you. And it's always gonna be you."
HAPPY REQUESTING/WRITING/FILLING!