What was your fasting blood glucose? (full on chat)

[dunelm]

Fbg7.1

Last night, I had lost my mobile phone all day. I was at my wits end trying to find it. Panicbegan to setting come evening. I was confident before then I would find it easily....
This next bit is only a small part of my conversation with ChatGPT who was helping me with advice how to find my phone.

Me
Thanks, it is nearly midnight here and I am not going to bed until I find that phone.

ChatGPT
...it’s a Pixel 8, you could try saying, “Hey Google, where’s my phone?” if you have Google Assistant enabled. If the volume is up, it should ring even if it’s on silent...if it’s not immediately visible, try listening carefully as you nudge things around. Even a tiny shift might make a sound if it’s trapped between something. At least you know it’s in the house somewhere—now it’s just a battle of wills! Hopefully, it gives up soon.

Me
I just tried again with hey Google and I heard a voice response but even with my processor it's not good enough to exactly pinpoint it but surely it cannot be more than a metre from me.

ChatGPT
That’s progress! If you can hear it, even faintly, then you know it’s nearby. Since it responded, the battery isn’t completely dead yet—so maybe keep trying “Hey Google” while moving around slightly to see if the sound gets louder or clearer from a different angle. If it’s muffled, it could be under something soft, like bedding or a pillow. Or wedged between furniture where the sound is getting blocked. Maybe even inside something unexpected? (I’ve had my phone end up in pillowcases and once in a shoe!)

Me
It didn't respond the second time, but I tried a third time and the only thing and it responded but the only thing I heard was "The first time... something ... something...I already told you once"
What is it trying to tell me? That doesn't sound right coming from Gemini?

ChatGPT Answer
That’s a weird response! It almost sounds like Google Assistant is being sassy—like it’s saying, “I already answered you!” But that’s not a standard response.

Maybe it misheard your request and pulled up something random, like a song lyric or a quote? If the phone is stuck somewhere, the sound might be getting distorted, making it harder for Gemini to make out the words.

Try again from a different spot or angle—you might catch more of what it’s saying and get a better sense of where the sound is.

Me to ChatGPT
I have finally got the little blighter. Talk about attitude. I was asking Gemini to make a long noise so I could pinpoint the whereabouts of my phone. Gemini wouldn't corporate with that. So I asked it to play a song. Gemini wouldn't co-operate that that request either. So then I finally asked Gemini to give me a whistle noise and it gave me this long winded explanation why as an AI it was not capable of whistling, but this long disdainful tirade at me, which gave me the chance to home in on Gemini and my pixel 8, listening with my cochlear sound processor (I was using an apple device to reprogram the settings of the sound processor at the same time so I could could hear Gemini better as a more distinct noise). It worked. But trying to outwit a rogue AI was hard work.

ChatGPT Answer
That little blighter really made you work for it! Sounds like it had a mind of its own, refusing to cooperate until you outsmarted it. But persistence pays off—you got there in the end! Whatever t was it, by the way? A rogue alarm, a device, or something else with an attitude?

Me
I have no idea what went wrong with Gemini, but when I looked in on it, it kept saying "We're sorry we don't know what went wrong ...13 error messages"


ChatGPT Answer
Ah, so it was Gemini acting up! Sounds like it had a full-on meltdown with those 13 error messages. No wonder it wasn’t cooperating when you were trying to track the noise. Did it finally sort itself out, or did you have to step in and reset something?

Me
I haven't done anything with it yet. I don't know what to do. What should I do? How do I reset it?

Then ChatGPT suggested a whole pile of stuff, but said leave it for tonight you need to go to bed, and in the morning we will go through these one by one, but in the meantime, put the Gemini on the phone in timeout, put it in Airplane Mode...

*****

I have already turned my phone completely off and then back on again cause sometimes that resets things.


On my own, I did a bit of research on Google and asked if anyone had had problems with Gemini. To my surprise a few results came up, and one shocking one where Gemini was reported to have been exceptionally rude and said very inappropriate things. There were other reports of the rudeness of Gemini.

By the way, I have never used Gemini before....

And by the way, I have never had to search for something by sound ever before. It is not something I can do. I cannot home in on a sound, not even with the cochlear sound processor. This is a completely new experience for me. ChatGPT knows this and so he was trying his hardest to help me. I was trying out Forward Focus, one of the settings on my remote control, as I was searching.

When ChatGPT has woken up this morning and put on his shoes, I will make sure my phone is working okay. I never knew an AI used
shoes before....or pillowcases...

Creative ....a random laboscope shot....

I got some sleep but it was one weird nightmare after another about artificial intelligence ....

I am just going to have a power nap and hopefully restart the day. But I have a splitting headache because of last night. By the way, I tried many many more times than what I mentioned above with sound to try and find the phone. It took about over an hour and a half of actively voice searching for the phone. And Gemini definitely had a very sassy attitude.....

Have your best kind of day...

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What a palaver - petulant AI - lovely random laboscope art

 

[gennepher]

What a palaver - petulant AI - lovely random laboscope art

Thank you very much @dunelm

 

[JohnEGreen]

I once said to Alexa google is better it knows more than you reply was google is a search engine I am AI and I’m sure I heard distain in her voice.
My fbg was five point zero this morning, the cat scan went well though it took them sometime to to find a vein they could get a cannulae into so now will just have to wait till I get the result.
Have another appointment booked for tomorrow at Kings Mill but with respiratory consultant then apart from dressing appointment on Friday that’s it till next week so will have a few days off.

 

[Lamont D]

A disappointing 7mmols.
We have had more hand rails installed this morning.
But was disappointed with that was all they were obliged to do.

It has been a cool rainy windy morning, waiting for the better weather to return.
I have already caught the sun on my bald patch.
At least I'm getting the vitamin d requirement.

Hopefully read some posts later.

 

[Annb]

8.7 at 03.20 today.

Didn't sleep well - only got to bed at 01.00 because Neil decided to put the supports up for my new shelves at midnight, so I had to move stuff out of the way and then put things back when he had finished. Decided to make a few changes while I was at it. Then I couldn't get comfortable because I'd overtired my back and my arm and shoulder were sore due to being kept stretched out and still for and hour and a half for the iron infusion yesterday. Much better just to get up and get on with the day.

 

[jjraak]

Morning all.

No FBG cos I didn't bring kit AND it's a holiday.

Another cracking few days
Temp currently 90°+

So much to enjoy here.

And even if you don't speak the same language it just seems everyone just gets on so well

Met a lovely couple, we shared a coconut with.

Sometimes you just don't need an app to communicate.

Namaste.

 

[Krystyna23040]

5.8 this morning.
Taking Bonnie with us to train her to be quiet and sit still when class members come into the hall. That is really hard for her as she gets so excited.

 

[alf_Josiah]

Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen. If you woke up it’s a good morning. It is good to have a simple view on life, the universe and everything.

Blood sugars yesterday were 5.1 and this morning were 6.3 make what you want of that.

Yesterday I googled this simple question “ how many accepted religions are there “
According to the internetty, there are over 10 000 accepted religions and ways of life. I found it interesting that internetty included ways of life into the mix. Hmmm.

Here in Tilehurst Towers it is plinky plonky lesson day. I have done my practice? Yes. Do I have favourite piece of music to play? No.

Have a good day all and smile. Smiles give so much and cost nothing.

 

[JohnEGreen]

6.5 today.
Nice sunny morning here but a little chill at 7 degrees.

 

[dunelm]

Morning all.

No FBG cos I didn't bring kit AND it's a holiday.

Another cracking few days
Temp currently 90°+

So much to enjoy here.

And even if you don't speak the same language it just seems everyone just gets on so well

Met a lovely couple, we shared a coconut with.

Sometimes you just don't need an app to communicate.

Namaste.

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Looks murderous. How can you stand such torture

 

[dunelm]

Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen. If you woke up it’s a good morning. It is good to have a simple view on life, the universe and everything.

Blood sugars yesterday were 5.1 and this morning were 6.3 make what you want of that.

Yesterday I googled this simple question “ how many accepted religions are there “
According to the internetty, there are over 10 000 accepted religions and ways of life. I found it interesting that internetty included ways of life into the mix. Hmmm.

Here in Tilehurst Towers it is plinky plonky lesson day. I have done my practice? Yes. Do I have favourite piece of music to play? No.

Have a good day all and smile. Smiles give so much and cost nothing.

Blimey - 10 000. Can we try one a day for the next 27+ years and then decide? What happens if I change my mind - oh far too confusing. Best stick to Pastafarianism as I already have the colander.

 

[dunelm]

Good morning everyone on yet another sun shiny start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north.
5.8 this a.m.
There is chatter inside my head using words like ‘hair cut’ and ‘beard trim’. All this because we are off to France next week. We will miss the first green bin collection of the year but we can’t have everything. Must ask next door to put out the double dip bins.
Still a few plants lurking in the pots they were bought in. I suspect that this afternoon there will be garden activity.
Art bit - last of the three marshy estuary things.
Hope your day is kind. I must go and open the out buildings for some airing out and then make koffy.

 

[dunelm]

I just checked mine this morning, and it came in at 92. Not too bad, but I’m keeping an eye on it. Also, currently watching the football, and my Scottish side is frustrated while my English side shrugs it off

Welcome. So 92 - that would be mg/dL I guess, so about 5.1 mol/L in old money.
Scottish football - an ecumenical mystery - it’s all Greek to me.

 

[Peanut234]

12.1 this morning.
Appt with endo tomorrow.
Have just read a news article saying that in my country people are waiting 2-5 years for an insulin pump. It's not he approval apparently, its getting a booking with the educator.
Will see how tomorrow goes.

Edit: forgot to add that chiropractor appointment went very well. Turns out my head/neck was 'very terrible' (in the words of the chiro) a lot more that expected, and the chiro was very distressed on my behalf. Also I had forgotten how exceptionally kind and gentle she is which is a nice change.
Feeling quite weird now as I have a lot more neck motion and I feel like someone has removed the scaffolding which since the knots have all gone, means that I suppose the scaffolding has indeed gone.
I know that there are some risks, and some people don't believe in it, but I've had my neck scanned for other reasons so we know there are no underlying issues, and it really makes a difference for me.

 

[Peanut234]

I got the feeling ChatGPT was jealous of Gemini for appearing to have some form of emotions.... was that my imagination?
By logic, I can usually find my phone, occasionally it might take me a few hours. But this time it is slipped of its own accord in someway into the location where it was hidden and I had virtually no chance of finding it unless I turned over the entire room of every little thing @Peanut234
And I had already been doing that bit by bit for a couple of hours...

I feel you with the slipping somewhere of its own accord. It makes the hunt a lot more difficult when you are past the logic stage.
Mine has twice unknowingly adventured out of my pocket and under the car seat and I have had to call in for more nimble reinforcements to confirm my suspicions and help extract it.
Like you, there is usually a lot of in house detective work and excavation first. We also discovered last time, to our delight that a finding things app managed to differentiate between the house and the driveway which will hopefully reduce the need for future house excavations.
We have also discovered, that the 'grabber' (used for putting socks on and picking things up post hip surgery) is also very good for getting things that have fallen down the back of the chest freezer, and behind the tv cabinet. Bit too long for under the the car seat though.

 

[JohnEGreen]

No medical appointments tomorrow hooray

 

[gennepher]

Good morning everyone on yet another sun shiny start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north.
5.8 this a.m.
There is chatter inside my head using words like ‘hair cut’ and ‘beard trim’. All this because we are off to France next week. We will miss the first green bin collection of the year but we can’t have everything. Must ask next door to put out the double dip bins.
Still a few plants lurking in the pots they were bought in. I suspect that this afternoon there will be garden activity.
Art bit - last of the three marshy estuary things.
Hope your day is kind. I must go and open the out buildings for some airing out and then make koffy.

I love all three of these @dunelm
A brilliant series...

 

[gennepher]

I feel you with the slipping somewhere of its own accord. It makes the hunt a lot more difficult when you are past the logic stage.
Mine has twice unknowingly adventured out of my pocket and under the car seat and I have had to call in for more nimble reinforcements to confirm my suspicions and help extract it.
Like you, there is usually a lot of in house detective work and excavation first. We also discovered last time, to our delight that a finding things app managed to differentiate between the house and the driveway which will hopefully reduce the need for future house excavations.
We have also discovered, that the 'grabber' (used for putting socks on and picking things up post hip surgery) is also very good for getting things that have fallen down the back of the chest freezer, and behind the tv cabinet. Bit too long for under the the car seat though.

You need a flexible gooseneck grabber for the curvature path that phone takes when escaping... @Peanut234

 

[gennepher]

I met my friend today. It was quite a hot day. Our usual eating place was full, and so we chose another but the food was worse than awful. The place was so empty that we could sit and talk as long as we wanted over after dinner coffee. So that was a silver lining to that cloud.

I told my friend, I was going to find another place to eat , and accidentally on the way home I did. I checked it out online and I'm about to tell her in a bit.

The main thing is, I was interested in was what my friend had for a cataract post operative checkup after her operation. She said before that she had had one for each eye, (she had both eyes done) but she never told me what it entailed.

She finished telling me , and I said, but what about the post operative check up? You never told me about that again. By the way, my friend is not on the Internet so she doesn't look up things, et cetera.

But I did, she said.

Nowhere in your description of what happened did you say anything about the post operative cataract checkup, I said.

But I did said my friend, the optician said my eyes were fine..

And how did the optician determine your eyes were fine I asked.

Well she gave me an eye test, said my friend.

That is not a post-operative cataract eye checkup, I told my friend. And I showed my friend the NHS site which told you what happened at a cataract post operative eye check.

Oh, none of that happened said my friend.


So I asked my friend to be patient with me and go through the whole thing from beginning to end from when the optician told her they were going to refer her for a cataract operation. She was getting a bit fed up with me at this time, but I wanted to understand....there was something that bothered me and I didn't know what it was, however, my friend asked me some questions of various bits she didn't understand and I was able to explain to her. So, I don't think she minded in the end.

It turned out that when my friend initially had an eye test, when the optician said she both eyes had cataracts and they were going to refer her, they only referred her for one eye at a time because they got money for each separate referral but not so if they referred you for both eyes at once. Fair enough... but the next bit I wasn't happy with...
At that same first visit, the optician had said that my friend had to pay for the glasses she was going to need for after the cataract operation, and told her to choose some frames. The optician told my friend this before she had had the cataract operation, that after the cataract operation, that she was going to need reading glasses and also driving glasses. So my friend had to pay on that first visit for those two pairs of glasses. My friend did tell me at the time, but it didn't make sense to me...

I think that is incredibly sharp practice by the opticians. What do you think?

I am coming to believe that it is more widespread than anyone realises, that the opticians are not doing the postop cataract checks. The opticians are sent all the paperwork from the hospital about your operation so they can conduct the check..

What do you think?


Creative... finger sketch on my phone of a man walking. He had a very stiff% leaning backwards type of stance.

Night night

 

[JohnEGreen]

I was referred for both eyes but the clinic only sorted one eye the one with the worst cataract as the NHS would only fund the one operation I have since learned that the second operation would be funded if you met certain criteria and not being able to have a normal diabetic eye test would infact fall within the requirements for that criteria but as I have said no follow up check was carried out because spec savers would not be paid for it.