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I’ve never bothered with sleep tracking. Never seen the point.
I use it mostly for fitness and Apple Pay. Usually I’m up between 5am to 6:30am depending on if I’m WFH or not.
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My use case of the Apple Watch is for everything beyond yours, I use it to control music playback, check messages/emails at a glance, sleep track, blood oxygen/health monitoring, timekeeping and everything that is offered within watchOS.

I do wake up same time for WFH, the time zone NASA uses is EST so our California colleagues in the states have to be up early and we had shifts 9am to 2 pm with a lunch break before we debrief with our supervisor when we were remote. Now in-person I would have to wake up earlier to get ready as our shifts start at 8am pacific. On day one even at 4 as the company bus leaves at 5, we go straight to work and then check in the hotel when it is check in time
 
Love getting emails first thing in the morning from the Dept. of Education saying:

"Youre still in forbearance on your loans because the courts wont let us do anything to help you out so be prepared to be jerked around even more until a due date is determined and even then, dont quote us on that because we dont know what the **** is going on..."
 
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Amazon is so weird. I placed an order last week using my credit card, transaction never showed up and the order never shipped. Canceled the order because I presumed it would just never work. Ordered it again yesterday with my debit card because, idk, who knows... transaction has not shown up on that card, either. Order has not shipped. No idea what's up with that. Easy solution is to just stop using Amazon, but in this case, it was the fastest, cheapest, and easiest way to do this.
 
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Go Lions!
 
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Not being able to post in certain sections is stupid, a person is either going to be silly and get themselves banned or they are not
Making them wait until they meet the restrictions does nothing to deter this
It's a poorly thought out plan that tackles nothing
 
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danbottomburp said:
Not being able to post in certain sections is stupid, a person is either going to be silly and get themselves banned or they are not
Making them wait until they meet the restrictions does nothing to deter this
It's a poorly thought out plan that tackles nothing
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It’s not that hard to meet the criteria and qualify.

Sunday is on my mind. My one day off this week. I’m tired and not planning to do much today.
 
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rm5 said:
-12 this morning. Another reason why I don’t plan on going out. Supposed to get down to -30 on Tuesday.
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Yes it’s cold and miserable here to. One day off in 12 is never good. Especially when they are long days.

I’ve done most of my exercise for the day at least. Mrs AFB is not feeling great either but has prepared tonight’s dinner, so at least that’s done.

Sadly I’ll be in the office for the next two days then WFH the rest of the week.
 
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rm5 said:
-12 this morning. Another reason why I don’t plan on going out. Supposed to get down to -30 on Tuesday.
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The east is getting a lot of snow this week. This will be tough for the rams divisional game against eagles 🦅 today. It will also explain why inauguration arrangements are indoors this time around.
 
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rm5 said:
All technology just seems to have completely broken tonight. University’s WiFi is down, and I can’t even connect any of my computers to my phone’s hotspot. Everything just totally doesn’t work.
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Very frustrating.

This week, the (gloriously seasonal) blood oranges (their arrival is about the only saving grace of the latter part of winter) that will be in my citrus fruit delivery - along with my usual delivery of lemons and grapefruit - are very much on my mind.
 
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Scepticalscribe said:
Very frustrating.

This week, the (gloriously seasonal) blood oranges (their arrival is about the only saving grace of the latter part of winter) that will be in my citrus fruit delivery - along with my usual delivery of lemons and grapefruit - are very much on my mind.
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Y’all also know that Cara Cara oranges are in season right now like blood oranges during the winter months? These are sweeter and smaller forms of oranges. 🍊
 
Also, before the internet died, I ordered a nice, high-quality, sturdy standing lamp for my dorm room. I’ve had a million lamps, and most of them have been very cheap and flimsy. Hope this breaks that trend. The big overhead light is bothering me, to be honest.

I was also about to order a pack of plastic pocket folders - because the student store doesn’t carry them - but then the internet went out. So that’s a task for tomorrow, or whenever the internet comes back.

I can’t remember the name of the ISP, but we have 1 gigabit fiber (about 950 Mbps up and down) here at the college, which is super sweet. Beats my 500 down/50 up back home.
 
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rm5 said:
All technology just seems to have completely broken tonight. University’s WiFi is down, and I can’t even connect any of my computers to my phone’s hotspot. Everything just totally doesn’t work.
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Growing up in New Guinea, at one point the highest levels of technology were the kerosene-powered fridge, the kerosene-powered Tilley(for the British)/Coleman(for the Americans) mantle-lamps and the battery-powered early-model transistor radio.

We read real books. We listened to Burl Ives on the radio. Ice-cream came as a powder, was mixed with the milk (made from powder) and put in the tiny (6 inches wide x 4 inches high x 10 inches deep) freezer section.

The stove was cast iron, fed with wood. Hot water came from pipes that went from the tank on the roof, down through the back of the stove to heat up, and back up to the tank. The two tanks (hot and cold) were filled by a hand-powered pump.

You get used to not worrying about technology.

The other night there were major state-wide storms. The lights started to flicker, so my first thought was to go and get a couple of torches in case the power went out.

Some years ago, a friend of mine who had been living in PNG for a couple of years went back to visit friends in Kansas. They had bad storms and the power went out. While the rest of the household was panicking, my friend calmly went about, finding candles, lighting them so they at least had some light.

Just be prepared for normal problems (no power, no Internet, no water, etc, etc), determine how you will cope and get stuff ready (battery-powered lights, books, etc).

Some things you can't prepare for (like a meteor landing on your head) so they go in the don't worry pile. You probably won't know anything about it if a meteor does land on your head, anyway.
 
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rm5 said:
Also, before the internet died, I ordered a nice, high-quality, sturdy standing lamp for my dorm room. I’ve had a million lamps, and most of them have been very cheap and flimsy. Hope this breaks that trend. The big overhead light is bothering me, to be honest.

I was also about to order a pack of plastic pocket folders - because the student store doesn’t carry them - but then the internet went out. So that’s a task for tomorrow, or whenever the internet comes back.

I can’t remember the name of the ISP, but we have 1 gigabit fiber (about 950 Mbps up and down) here at the college, which is super sweet. Beats my 500 down/50 up back home.
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Speaking (well, writing) from personal experience, I can recommend that you spend money on a decent desk lamp - I loathe strong overhead lighting, and especially dislike florescent light - you will find it a worthwhile investment.

The other thing I cannot recommend sufficiently is that I urge you to think of investing in a good (really good), preferably ergonomic, (desk, or office) chair.
 
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Scepticalscribe said:
Speaking (well, writing) from personal experience, I can recommend that you spend money on a decent desk lamp - I loathe strong overhead lighting, and especially dislike florescent light - you will find it a worthwhile investment.

The other thing I cannot recommend sufficiently is that I urge you to think of investing in a good (really good), preferably ergonomic, (desk, or office) chair.
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All good advice, especially for the chair. Speaking from experience the chairs at my residence when I was doing my Master were ... inadequate.
 
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DaveFromCampbelltown said:
Growing up in New Guinea, at one point the highest levels of technology were the kerosene-powered fridge, the kerosene-powered Tilley(for the British)/Coleman(for the Americans) mantle-lamps and the battery-powered early-model transistor radio.

We read real books. We listened to Burl Ives on the radio. Ice-cream came as a powder, was mixed with the milk (made from powder) and put in the tiny (6 inches wide x 4 inches high x 10 inches deep) freezer section.

The stove was cast iron, fed with wood. Hot water came from pipes that went from the tank on the roof, down through the back of the stove to heat up, and back up to the tank. The two tanks (hot and cold) were filled by a hand-powered pump.

You get used to not worrying about technology.

The other night there were major state-wide storms. The lights started to flicker, so my first thought was to go and get a couple of torches in case the power went out.

Some years ago, a friend of mine who had been living in PNG for a couple of years went back to visit friends in Kansas. They had bad storms and the power went out. While the rest of the household was panicking, my friend calmly went about, finding candles, lighting them so they at least had some light.

Just be prepared for normal problems (no power, no Internet, no water, etc, etc), determine how you will cope and get stuff ready (battery-powered lights, books, etc).

Some things you can't prepare for (like a meteor landing on your head) so they go in the don't worry pile. You probably won't know anything about it if a meteor does land on your head, anyway.
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All very good advice - we’ve been having a fair bit of Dunkelflaute weather lately and there were rumours last week that rolling power cuts nearly happened. As we become more tech dependent they would get a lot more serious - even if short in duration - than the ones I remember From the 70s.
 
Scepticalscribe said:
Speaking (well, writing) from personal experience, I can recommend that you spend money on a decent desk lamp - I loathe strong overhead lighting, and especially dislike florescent light - you will find it a worthwhile investment.

The other thing I cannot recommend sufficiently is that I urge you to think of investing in a good (really good), preferably ergonomic, (desk, or office) chair.
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I agree on all this! Definitely also hate fluorescent - or large, blaring overhead LED lights.

Now, about the chair (also to you @decafjava)… back home, I started to use a plastic folding chair. I did used to have a nice one, then it broke and never replaced it. Broke right before I left for my first year, so the rationale for me not getting a new one is that I wouldn’t be there enough to actually enjoy it.

Plastic folding chair and plastic folding table are absolutely horrible, but it does make a bit of sense because I have to set it up/tear it down regularly when I come back for breaks and then leave again.
 
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