Ran out of my regular coffee this morning so I’m forced to drink decaf before noon today, like an animal.
I’ve been reflecting more about my habits and commitments, and trying to decide if their benefits outweigh the costs and the time I’m willing to commit to being responsible for them.
The required stuff is complex enough as it is. The optional things should be simpler.
I’ll sleep better tonight knowing someone is finally going to do something about Rosie O’Donnell.
I don’t know if I’ve ever disliked an Apple design element more than I dislike Liquid Glass.
Taking the rest of the week off, on “biblical” grounds.
Two phrases that I absolutely hate:
- “Unless you’ve been living under a rock”
- “Forced down our throats”
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Air-fried Uncrustables.
Dad of the year, over here.
Seriously. What’s your excuse for still being on X at this point. They’ve literally built HitlerBot.
Currently running on black coffee and tacos. It must be Tuesday.
I didn’t choose the Beta life. The Beta life chose me.
3PAP
Wife: Did you buy another CPAP machine?! Me: Maybe Wife: So now you have three? Why do you need three?! Me: Home, travel— Wife: You already got one for travel a few months ago! Me: Well that one was really too big for serious travel, this is an actual travel CPAP. Wife: So what are you going to do with the other one? Me: Keep it as my backup. Wife: … … … This is such a weird hobby.
Anyone else ever feel like their sleep apnea fights back?
I will periodically reach these points where I feel like I’m absolutely dialed in on my CPAP settings. 0.2 AHI, 0.0 95% Flow Limitation, 0.0 on all leak measurements all night, 0x 3-4% O2 drops.
Congrats! You’ve conquered OSA!
A few days will go by, a week, you’re just happy. You make no changes. Then you wake up and check your stats and they’re all over the place, eh that’s odd, just a bad night.
And another, and another. Nothing changed, except your OSA adapted.
It’s so discouraging.
Installed an Ecobee thermostat, and one feature is an indoor air quality sensor. When our windows are closed, it almost always reports our home is “poor” despite two other Eve sensors saying everything is fine.
The ppb level of the Eves (at their worst) yesterday were 116 in the main floor (where the Ecobee is) and 198 ppb in my office which gets the worst ventilation of any room in the house – and is where I sit all day.
Finally pulled the reading off the Ecobee API: 172718 ppb
I apparently live inside a volcano.
Even on Sunday, when it was beautiful weather outside and we had literally every window in the house open, the Ecobee shows 517 ppb in TVOC, which, like, would still be kind of terrible.
Every time I start to think to myself that I’m done with Mastodon and all the inter-instance-blocking-bullshit-drama, I go look at Bluesky and Threads for a little bit and then remember on the whole we are still better off.
Feeling spicy today.
Might regret later.
I can’t get Apple Intelligence to create a Genmoji based on all the thousands of images it has in my Photos library of Me, with blue eyes. It really pisses me off.
Stanclift Supplimental
I’ve been pretty consistent about taking vitamins and such for 15 years. I go through periods where I’m more serious about it, and sometimes just keep it simple.
Fedi Summer
The following is an email sent to all vmst.io members on July 3, 2023. Before you swipe left on this message, allow me to clarify that I’ve considered for a long time whether to send an email to all of you. I deeply respect your privacy and understand that you didn’t provide us with your email to subscribe to a newsletter. Whether you joined yesterday or nine months ago, we’ve only ever used your email for account alerts.
Micro.blog
After decommissioning the vmst.io WriteFreely instance last week, I moved my blog back to Ghost. But then this weekend I remembered what an absolute shit experience writing or editing on a mobile device is with Ghost. A few people mentioned that they just don’t blog from mobile, but I like to be able to do all my work from as many devices as possible (I push vmst.io updates from my phone just because I can.
Sleep Apnea
I went to an ENT a few weeks ago because I have been getting tonsil stones for a few years now, especially bad in the winter months. He said “yep your tonsils need to come out, this is going to be terrible, plan to be out for at least a week” 😯 That adventure is now scheduled for the week of June 26. While I’m there I also mentioned that I snore really badly at night.