24 February 2025

I'm not particularly a person of habit, but my morning routine is fairly structured. This morning was 'stressful' as things did not go as planned once again due to the crap that computer programs seem still to involve. I have switched things so that I now get up at 6:30 rather than 7 purely because of nannying from the health apps I'm currently using, although I refuse to respect the 10PM bedtime that the watch app insists has to be respected. I am comfortable with 8 hours sleep, so I'm not moving getting up to 5AM! In any case, the watch is back on the side as it's causing a rash on my arm ... it needs a cloth strap I think, but it's not giving any benefit in my sleep monitoring as it just does not record events like my night time toilet visits.

So this morning the alarm went off at 6:30, and I got up to do the morning monitoring. Having done blood pressure, pulse and temperature, the health for you app decided that someone had changed the password to the on-line account. It then took 20 minutes to reset the password as the Samsung, Firefox and website's 'controls' fought with one another. I have standardised on using the Firefox system of managing passwords as it mirrors those between the desktop and phone, and hopefully when I get a tablet that works, that as well. However since it's the app that is complaining, that is not using Firefox and so Samsung's password wallet gets it's oar in. Added to that, the website does not allow me to cut and paste the 'secure password' in manually so I had to access it on the desktop so I could type it in manually. All unnecessary nannying that defeat the security that strong passwords from Firefox provides.

The morning news had an item on an hours exercise at work to help reduce stress. I don't have the stress of work at all today, and I get enough exercise during the day, but not a full hour. I've got three apps that all compete to monitor that activity, but none of them agree on just how much I have done. Time I think to rationalise just which ones I do use, and at the moment I think the NHS one's get the bin, but that means relying on the Samsung health app and it's very much American biased actions. Along with it's nannying that I need to use it's 'cloud storage' for the results. Not somewhere I am going any time soon.

Over the weekend I learnt that my father has passed away. He was in his nineties and had the same heart problems that I have inherited, but I can't help think that he perhaps should have had a few more years. Don't know yet what his death certificate puts his death down to, but if it's anything like my mother's then it will just be a 'natural causes', which helps nobody! I am hoping at least to get to see his funeral since I was prevented from even watching my mother's or my son's in 2023. I'm not religious, so being told things 'are the will of God' adds to the stress. It's PEOPLE who make all of these things happen, and perhaps some of them should stop passing the blame to a piece of fiction? Time to dig out my thoughts on that ...