Fitbit says to take a day off

My fitbit is still adjusting, collecting data, and will not be fully useful for another month or so. One reason I've resisted having a fitbit kind of watch (other than that I don't like wearing a watch) is that I don't much like an app telling me that I'm not exercising enough or have been sitting too long, etc. In fact I turned all that off. No notifications of failure. What I do have is a data collection unit that picks up a lot of information that I can use to measure any degradation, any decay. Knowing my norm is very useful.

What I discovered is that I probably need to rest some more. My current activity is four of seven days over 15K steps. On Monday and Friday with pickleball those steps are mostly fast twitch hopping and jumping and moving in all directions. More physically demanding than the straight line walking but the entertainment inherent in the sport keeps my mind from noticing that I'm exercising.

Fitbit says I need to take a day off and just stretch. I definitely need the stretching and can probably use a quiet day. It is windy and cold after last night's storms. Beautiful day and I've already taken Zoe out for our walk and bagel resupply.

So, yeah, stretch.

Here is a fairly new dog to the Ranch. His name is Cowboy and he was a herding dog. Sweet boy:






And here is my view while watching television a couple of nights ago:

Beta no more

I've been a beta tester for Google as long as I've had a Pixel.  But their latest beta update to 14 whatever is kind of a disaster and 14.1.1 didn't get any better.  Not a huge number of issues but enough that I decided to bail

One of the things about being a beta tester is that reverting to the publicly released version means a complete reload.  I've had my phone (Pixel 6)  a while now so I figured why not.  I first made sure that I could still sign into my various high security sites without my 2FA app that I typically use.  I had a phone die and getting into paypal and my government pay site was kind of a problem.  But having covered that I opted out of the program and restarted.  So far, so good.  Installing number 73 of 163 apps (???).  No idea where the apps are but there are a bunch of them.  I'll be signing in for the rest of the day but the phone should be happy.  Right now it is just hot.