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[gennepher]

Fbg 8.1

I am having one of those days already, and it is not even 8 am...
First of all, my old iPad which froze and would not go off at all nor disconnect from my Wi-Fi, has gone totally doolally this morning. The torch/flash started flashing every 30 seconds. And would not stop and there was nothing I could do about it. It would not disconnect from my Wi-Fi because I can't get into access it, and it's causing problems for my cochlear sound processor...
I tried to go in the Apple settings to delete the whole iPad, but it's different now than it was last time I did it and it's a different process.
So then I go to my friendly AI bot.
I am sure the thing was laughing at me.
It assessed the situation gave me two options, and then suggested if I didn't want to get any further stress before my cataract operation then to throw the misbehaving iPad in a dark drawer, and forget about it until after the operation by which time the battery will have run down completely. And to put my hammer away.

Which is where the old iPad is now in the bottom of a very dark drawer....

Then I am starting to get some very strange alerts from Gmail. It told me my Amazon order was cancelled. Something I urgently needed before my operation.
But I could not find a trace of a cancellation in Amazon.
Then Gmail sent me some more very weird alerts, one after the other, and I could not make head or tail of it.
I'm going bananas here.
I have got up in time to do one little short video from my wildlife beasties. I am now an hour and a half later after wasting time with the old stupid iPad and stupid Gmail. I don't have time to do that now and I'm hassled and frazzled.

I have deleted Gmail app, no idea how to get the messages at the moment.

What was Gmail doing? It was alerting me of every message that I had received from the beginning of 2024 of all three accounts I had on it.

I need another collection app for my emails....

My brain is now well confused, the sun is out and I am going to sit in the front room and the warm side of the window in the Sun. The temperature is too cold to go outside and sit. And any jobs that were urgent this morning can go hang.

For creative, I have photographed my spring picture of trees again and Minnie (the name given to this new iPad by spellcheck) has made a kaleidoscope of it with one of my apps on Minnie, and this is all you are getting for a creative this morning and that is that.

Have your best kind of day amid all confusion in this crazy world and say s*d it... it doesn't matter... in fact nothing matters at all... and that is my philosophical advice for today.

Sorry if there are any grammar mistakes, but I am not checking what spellcheck has done to any of this...

 

[Madfarmerswife]

11.4 this morning, just makes no sense. I also don't know whether I'm supposed to tweak the insulin dose for being out of range for 3 days, or whether to wait until I've spoken to the nurse again tomorrow... Some is better than none, so just carrying on for now.
Working from home today, so I suppose I should get logged on...

 

[jjraak]

Yes, they haven't thought it though properly and it isn't working. All they are thinking of is how to save money not how they can help us.

I agree that it is a joke that we have to prove that we are not robots.

The worry for me, is it's opportunistic operators selling their product, to health providers, that maybe haven't been proven to link well with others parts of the NHS or indeed others, like GP surgeries, simply because no one bothers to do such research in any great depth .

The suspicion lingers is the savings get eaten up by the costs at some level , I mean the new providers have to add on a profit, and in all likelihood a 'sweetener' for buyers to pick them over xyz.

The NHS is not known for buying computer systems that just 'works'.
So we shouldn't be surprised that legacy endures.

Someone, somewhere is making these buying decisions without any references from those with
A. Experience in the applications usage
B. Some fundamental idea of the ongoing costs of making it work with other systems already in situ.
C. Knowledge of the costings to keep such products operating beyond the money back guarantee date .

Id like to think we're getting state of the art interfaces, built to be robust while easily linking to any system already in place .

Sadly I think a lot of this at the moment is a little too wild west for my liking .

So I suspect more 6th form /college kids hacking a fix with a raspberry Pi, and marketing it as the next level in automated services.

and all involved knowing full well, that as the deficiencies becomes well known, they are far from the shores of 'human interaction ' and not wishing to take responsibility & admit they chose badly , silently bite the bullet of buying the next incarnation level, to fix what shouldn't have been wrong in the first place , etc, etc.

And if you think that's bad, try checking out the latest PA news.

Doctors left unemployed because we're advocating to use PA's instead....

2 years training instead of 10+

And now PA's are being imported from countries, some with questionable qualifications standards.

Starting to wonder if @gennepher Welsh health care experience IS the blueprint for us all ...mmhh

What has become of the nation, indeed.

 

[dunelm]

Good morning everyone on a wonderful here comes the sun start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north. No reading today - far too much in celebratory eating out to contemplate such miserable news. Two walks into town yesterday. A late morning walk only to find a cafe that we fancied was chocker block. So into a wine bar that does koffy - pleasantly surprised to find that they do Warsteiner on tap - My local beer when stationed in Germany in the mid 70’s - half a pint please barkeeper - my liver is on holiday. Later, down again for the afternoon tea - far too much food so some taken home for supper. Today. Well already I have worked my fingers to the bone as well as taking two online quizzes commensurate with a game of Jumanji as I ordered repeat medication and then, taking photos of course, submitted gas and electricity readings - phew! Taking Mrs Miggins and her twin sister out to lunch today - far more useful a gift than shiny new replacement mop heads or even a glistening new twin tub complete with operating manual in Chinese and Swahili. Art bit - not on golden pond. Hope your day goes well. I shall make koffy and go and count how many logs we have left.

 

[jjraak]

Here, my CT scan is done, now the wait - Valentine's Day. DVLA tell me I can now drive.

Apologies Ian, very remiss of me .

Best wishes the scans as good as hoped and they get results back asap to you .

Wonderful news on driving again.

Much as I moan about the traffic, that sheer freedom to take off or even just go fetch, opens up a world of choices.

All the best.

 

[ianpspurs]

Morning all. @gennepher hug for the horrible start to the day but winner for sharing the creative and having a philosophy. @Madfarmerswife I hope the nurse is able to give advice for now and for dealing with similar situations. @dunelm happy birthday to the (doubtless) long suffering Mrs Miggins, thank you for sharing the spledid art and enjoy the meal with the birthday girls. . We are off to the frozen north of Cambs (past Peterborough where there be dragons - I worked there for 11 years so that's not a dig, wind yer neck in) - for a meal with friends Sing it John, sing it. (The A11, A14 and A1 don't really count as country roads but I know what lies beyond ). I don't have any advice for y'all as both The D and life in general thoroughly crosswaffle me so y'all just have the best Monday you can bearing in mind some days are diamonds some days are stone.

 

[gennepher]

Starting to wonder if @gennepher Welsh health care experience IS the blueprint for us all ...mmhh

What has become of the nation, indeed.

I started @jjraak writing about this kind of stuff as I was experiencing it around 2018 to 2019, when my surgery became doctorless, just some nurses, and I had a very bad experience from of those nurses because there was no doctor on the premises. The (offending) nurse told me I would have to phone for the ambulance for myself, she couldn't do it. I drove back home in a lot of pain, went to bed and waited for the bleeding to stop. It did some days later. Then I got an emergency text from the hospital 25 miles away from me...telling me to come in....

I think no one at that time believed me that there were no doctors in my surgery (the main doctors had left under a cloud, and there was a court case at the time) and that I had my facts wrong. An Internet friend of mine sent me details from the Welsh government site, saying you are wrong genny, the Welsh government says everyone has a right to a GP. She did not believe me for a very long time that there were no GPs until I managed to send her some newspaper articles saying that it was so.

I have to admit it rankled me that she didn't say sorry. And at one point she asked me why I always sounded angry in my emails to her. I hadn't realised I was sounding angry to her, but I realised why and I told her, she still didn't say sorry.

Okay, that is by the by and yes it probably still rankles me a we bit and I should put that aside.

But no one seem to see what was happening to the NHS, at least the Welsh NHS at that time, and afterwards...

Be very, very afraid if all my experiences are the blueprint for the future @jjraak

 

[gennepher]

Morning all. @gennepher hug for the horrible start to the day but winner for sharing the creative and having a philosophy. @Madfarmerswife I hope the nurse is able to give advice for now and for dealing with similar situations. @dunelm happy birthday to the (doubtless) long suffering Mrs Miggins, thank you for sharing the spledid art and enjoy the meal with the birthday girls. . We are off to the frozen north of Cambs (past Peterborough where there be dragons - I worked there for 11 years so that's not a dig, wind yer neck in) - for a meal with friends Sing it John, sing it. (The A11, A14 and A1 don't really count as country roads but I know what lies beyond ). I don't have any advice for y'all as both The D and life in general thoroughly crosswaffle me so y'all just have the best Monday you can bearing in mind some days are diamonds some days are stone.

Thank you @ianpspurs
Have a good journey and a great day in the frozen north of Cambs...wrap up well...

 

[dunelm]

Fbg 8.1

I am having one of those days already, and it is not even 8 am...
First of all, my old iPad which froze and would not go off at all nor disconnect from my Wi-Fi, has gone totally doolally this morning. The torch/flash started flashing every 30 seconds. And would not stop and there was nothing I could do about it. It would not disconnect from my Wi-Fi because I can't get into access it, and it's causing problems for my cochlear sound processor...
I tried to go in the Apple settings to delete the whole iPad, but it's different now than it was last time I did it and it's a different process.
So then I go to my friendly AI bot.
I am sure the thing was laughing at me.
It assessed the situation gave me two options, and then suggested if I didn't want to get any further stress before my cataract operation then to throw the misbehaving iPad in a dark drawer, and forget about it until after the operation by which time the battery will have run down completely. And to put my hammer away.

Which is where the old iPad is now in the bottom of a very dark drawer....

Then I am starting to get some very strange alerts from Gmail. It told me my Amazon order was cancelled. Something I urgently needed before my operation.
But I could not find a trace of a cancellation in Amazon.
Then Gmail sent me some more very weird alerts, one after the other, and I could not make head or tail of it.
I'm going bananas here.
I have got up in time to do one little short video from my wildlife beasties. I am now an hour and a half later after wasting time with the old stupid iPad and stupid Gmail. I don't have time to do that now and I'm hassled and frazzled.

I have deleted Gmail app, no idea how to get the messages at the moment.

What was Gmail doing? It was alerting me of every message that I had received from the beginning of 2024 of all three accounts I had on it.

I need another collection app for my emails....

My brain is now well confused, the sun is out and I am going to sit in the front room and the warm side of the window in the Sun. The temperature is too cold to go outside and sit. And any jobs that were urgent this morning can go hang.

For creative, I have photographed my spring picture of trees again and Minnie (the name given to this new iPad by spellcheck) has made a kaleidoscope of it with one of my apps on Minnie, and this is all you are getting for a creative this morning and that is that.

Have your best kind of day amid all confusion in this crazy world and say s*d it... it doesn't matter... in fact nothing matters at all... and that is my philosophical advice for today.

Sorry if there are any grammar mistakes, but I am not checking what spellcheck has done to any of this...

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Well that’s one way of sorting out that irate IPad - let the battery go flat, out of the way and then charge it up again. Lovely reminder of spring in your kaleidoscope.

 

[ianpspurs]

Thank you @ianpspurs
Have a good journey and a great day in the frozen north of Cambs...wrap up well...

I will wrap up well now I have been so advised. An interesting journey from a US air base to near a major UK one (Wittering) via several disused WW2 bases. Mainly Cambs based but three very distinct areas. The corridor between Newmarket and just outside Peterborough is very much the world as I understand it, beyond that is almost a foreign country, including accent. Cambridgeshire has a mayor which makes no sense to me since South Cambs (basically the home counties, Gail's bakery, woke world), Fenland (the almost Feral, Reform loving part of the county) and Peterborough (doesn't quite know what it is) barely speak and may as well be in different regions in so many ways. Seems to me many parts of the UK are equally diverse but run from various centres which means awful situations such as your dysfunctional (non) doctors arrangement.

 

[dunelm]

Morning all. @gennepher hug for the horrible start to the day but winner for sharing the creative and having a philosophy. @Madfarmerswife I hope the nurse is able to give advice for now and for dealing with similar situations. @dunelm happy birthday to the (doubtless) long suffering Mrs Miggins, thank you for sharing the spledid art and enjoy the meal with the birthday girls. . We are off to the frozen north of Cambs (past Peterborough where there be dragons - I worked there for 11 years so that's not a dig, wind yer neck in) - for a meal with friends Sing it John, sing it. (The A11, A14 and A1 don't really count as country roads but I know what lies beyond ). I don't have any advice for y'all as both The D and life in general thoroughly crosswaffle me so y'all just have the best Monday you can bearing in mind some days are diamonds some days are stone.

Thank you @ianpspurs and enjoy that meal in the frozen not quite north that is Cambs. A11 - oh dear - we had a house in Attlebrough several episodes of life into the past.

 

[gennepher]

Well that’s one way of sorting out that irate IPad - let the battery go flat, out of the way and then charge it up again. Lovely reminder of spring in your kaleidoscope.

Thanks @dunelm
I am glad my AI bot has sensible practical suggestions....
Thank you for the kaleidoscope compliment.
I am in the warm window in the front room with the sun shining through, no need for any heating on....

 

[gennepher]

Good morning everyone on a wonderful here comes the sun start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north. No reading today - far too much in celebratory eating out to contemplate such miserable news. Two walks into town yesterday. A late morning walk only to find a cafe that we fancied was chocker block. So into a wine bar that does koffy - pleasantly surprised to find that they do Warsteiner on tap - My local beer when stationed in Germany in the mid 70’s - half a pint please barkeeper - my liver is on holiday. Later, down again for the afternoon tea - far too much food so some taken home for supper. Today. Well already I have worked my fingers to the bone as well as taking two online quizzes commensurate with a game of Jumanji as I ordered repeat medication and then, taking photos of course, submitted gas and electricity readings - phew! Taking Mrs Miggins and her twin sister out to lunch today - far more useful a gift than shiny new replacement mop heads or even a glistening new twin tub complete with operating manual in Chinese and Swahili. Art bit - not on golden pond. Hope your day goes well. I shall make koffy and go and count how many logs we have left.

Great art bit @dunelm
I hope you have enough logs left...

 

[dunelm]

Great art bit @dunelm
I hope you have enough logs left...

Thank you @gennepher - about 100 logs left and six sacks of smokeless briquettes so should be OK

 

[Annb]

8.2 at 02.00 today - not really fbg, although I hadn't eaten since early afternoon.

Another short night but I suppose that was to be expected after lazing around and dozing most of yesterday. I came through to the kitchen, took some painkillers and sat in the big chair until I fell asleep again - about an hour later. Slept then for about 4 hours. BG currently 5.2 - that's up from 3.9 about a quarter of an hour ago, thanks to a cup of tea. Tea really is an effective way of getting out of the hypo danger zone.

Just found my furthest back ancestor so far - one Priam IV king of Cimmerians, born about 430 bc. There's also a long list of his supposed ancestors, all the way back to a guy called Dardanus in 1414 bc, but there's no real historical evidence for them. No idea who compiled that list, but it looks kind of dodgy to me. Same as the list of vikings back from Ragnar. It's there, but who knows if they are just legends or based on historical fact?

As Neil says - what does it matter? We're all descended from the same people anyway. He changes his tune slightly, however, when it comes to finding pictish ancestors. He's quite interested in them.

 

[JohnEGreen]

Fbg was five point two this morning am on phone app so avoiding numbers.
Had a dressing and INR appointment this morning INR was low again so having to up my dose of warfarin was a bit upset as kept waiting for over forty minutes a rather painful experience as at home have anti pressure cushions no such luxury in the waiting room did get an apology though so somewhat mollified.

 

[Krystyna23040]

What has become of the nation, indeed.

It is very sad that these things arehappening @jjraak

 

[gennepher]

Fbg was five point two this morning am on phone app so avoiding numbers.
Had a dressing and INR appointment this morning INR was low again so having to up my dose of warfarin was a bit upset as kept waiting for over forty minutes a rather painful experience as at home have anti pressure cushions no such luxury in the waiting room did get an apology though so somewhat mollified.

Oh my goodness @JohnEGreen
Very gentle hugs for you...

 

[gennepher]

Sat in the window all day, done absolutely nothing off the couch.
But I was working out a pile of Internet problems, and problems finishing installing the Pixel 8 and logging in, and problems on my new iPad Minnie. Again logging into stuff and getting past security. And some logistical problems....

I would have found that very frustrating, but I set aside today for doing absolutely nothing so although there are jobs to do they are not on my mind, and this is a chilling out day. And actually trying to sort out logging in problems on apps etc on the Pixel 8 and Minnie. And other logistical stuff.

I still haven't gotten into everything or worked through all the settings yet, but that can be another day when I've got the sun shining through the front window...

I can confidently assert, that next time I get a new device, I will not be able to log into it and things because of the excessive security.

And that stupid flashing iPad that is now in a drawer, needs to be taken off Apple, because on that device is where I had my, I am not sure what you call it, the two factor verification for other devices went to that iPad. And that is absolutely no good now because I can't access it.

I am trying to set up some other two factor verification where I need it...

Yahoo Mail refused to accept one of my email addresses, my main one, saying it won't deal with that one. But totally accidentally I managed to combine that email address with another email address. The other email address Yahoo Mail accepted so when I installed that on Yahoo Mail it also brought up within it, the email address that Yahoo! mail would not accept...happy dance from me.

I think we need a course on how to outwit AI.

Anyway, the sun has gone behind the bungalows now, so to all intents and purposes it has set for me and now it is getting cold....

I would say a relaxing successful day from here.

I hope you all had a relaxing successful day in your own ways...

 

[JohnEGreen]

@gennepher yes two step verification can be a drag I had to create a new yahoo mail account because account recovery was being sent to another email that no longer existed as the provider stopped doing email.