A normal day

[bill_schubert]

The world has settled down a bit.

I did finally get in a walk with Zoe after having it knocked out of the schedule by a morning appointment for a blood draw.  We tried a different cholesterol drug starting early in October so today is the day to find out if it is helping.  No results of the test yet but maybe I'm sharing lab space with Covid testing.  

THIS JUST IN:  All my values are now optimal or near optimal.  Way better than it has been.  Better living through chemistry!

On the way back from the clinic I stopped at the store and bought a bunch of stuff to fill the pantry and can only think of half a dozen things I forgot.  We use Alexa for our list and it works well.  We just yell at her to 'add potatoes' or whatever and she knows it goes on the shopping list.  So I just bring out the phone and there it is.  Could not be simpler.  And Dana can add last minute things while I'm gone and they will appear.  It is one of only a very few things we use Alexa for but I like it.

The day will get a lot more interesting soon when Dana's new phone arrives.  She does not do tech so she mangles whatever phone she has.  Not the hardware, the software.  She is a little click happy and uses Facebook.  Bad combination.  All the sudden she will have changed from the Google Messenger that I put on her phone and will be using some other ad filled crap.  Drives me nuts.  She has a Samsung that I can't get to work right and has Samsung junk on it.  So I'm getting her a Pixel 4.  Since I've got a Pixel 3XL I understand the software and know how to configure it and, hopefully, lock it down.  

The new phone is on the truck so I'll be configuring it tonight.  It will be fun to see the new Pixel.  

Comments

[msconduct.livejournal.com]

Congrats on your shiny optimal values! I dunno what it is about shopping remotely, but all the way through lockdown I forgot at least one thing in every order I placed. It was maddening. I do a lot less of that in person though as I write things on my shopping list in the order of where they occur in the store, which I don't think Alexa is likely to master.

[bill-schubert.livejournal.com]

Alexa does catagories but not in order of the store. What I forgot I actually just didn't even put it on the list. It's on there now so I have two things to go to the store for. Not sure how I'll handle that maybe I'll just make a 7:00 run go in and grab them and leave. It's nearly empty then anyway. I'm actually pretty thrilled about the blood work results. I was kind of getting worried. Now I'll have to find somebody else to worry about.

[susandennis]

so whatcha taken for cholesterol?

i used to use alexa for grocery list but it was a bitch to get to in the store so i switched to Keep but that's a bitch to get to with Google home... hmmmm

i see they have moved the lists in the Alexa app to where it's easy to find AND I can get to it via the browser on my laptop. so long Keep!

Thanks

[bill-schubert.livejournal.com]

I take Crestor. Years ago my doc tried me with a couple of different statins but I always had flu like reactions so I was on something else that was not, eventually, working as well. I asked my cardio to try a statin again and we added an over the counter Coenzyme Q10 200 mg capsule that is supposed to help with the flu effects. Whether it worked or my body just changed, the Crestor has no side effects at all. My results are pretty dramatically different. I was kind of worried at the slow but stead rise of all the bad cholesterol, most of which is not really diet related as much as just getting old related. Plaque build up in the arteries and brain. Not good.

So this is a relief.

[susandennis]

very cool

[zestfive.livejournal.com]

I have the same thing with my wife so my solution is same phone and one that updates automatically because she used to refuse to do her updates. She always thought the updates messed her up but it was really because she never did them.

[bill-schubert.livejournal.com]

Fortunately my wife does not know enough to mess with updates and has been married to a computer guy for the past 24 years so understands updates.

I'm looking at the phone now delaying the start of the process.

[maju01.livejournal.com]

I find it's much easier to forget things when compiling an online order although so far we have never forgotten anything we couldn't live without. We actually have a master list both saved on my computer and printed out, of almost everything we might ever buy, so we really should get into the habit of checking our online orders against that.

[bill-schubert.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, we are not nearly so organized. But I don't much order on line preferring to look at the stuff myself, a chance I'm willing to take and do carefully.