Our Fitbit scales have pretty much given up. We can just about get them working but it's a proper dance now. First you stand on the scales, it weighs you as six pounds more than you are. Then you step off and it resets and then you get on again and it weighs you again as six pounds less, and we're sure the second weight is more accurate. Yes it's all in pounds as Clare insists on imperial measurements, even though she was born well in metric times. Thinking of getting some Garmin scales next time, to tie in with my Garmin watch. Waiting a) for pay day and b) for them to be easily available at the right price. They're £150 at Curry's where they are available and £130 at other places where they are not. I expect they'll go down in price when they're not available at Currys too.
I always have a problem creating links to places that should probably have an apostrophe in the name, so I often skip it, like they do in their own domain name.
I also want more IKEA Tradfri bulbs. I'm going to work up through the house starting with the hallway and downstairs loo. They have the old Lightwaverf smart bulbs, which are unused. I'm getting simple IKEA bulbs, not colour changing, and motion sensors for both. Assuming that will be OK (and it should be, I have this in the study) then I'll work up through the floors. I have some GU10s to replace in the utility, but leaving that for now as I hear there are colour changing GU10s available in Europe now, so when I can I'll get those and demote some of my existing bedroom bulbs to the utility.
Not ordering any of this until pay day, will be little projects for me during half term. And by "any of this" I really mean just the top two items of my list, not the stuff below it. Maybe the raspberry pi thing.
No need to keep repeating the old "things I already bought"10, I retired that list here.
Bad day on the shares yesterday, and probably again today. Everyone is selling everything to buy into Gamestop and the other shares hyped on Reddit, so everything else is falling. Even Tesla! Looks like that game might be over soon, I hope it's not all the desperate people who got in late who lose their money.
Done the printouts for the day, he's got "column arithmetic", contracted forms of words, and a load of puzzles around the six and eight times tables. After that it's an easier day as one has PE and one has RE, and I'm not pushing him to get extra credit there. Oh both boys got their Blue Peter badge membership cards yesterday, so now they get free entry to places. Not that there are any places. Time for work now.
My stats are catching up with the government announce 100,000 plus coronavirus deaths. Yay.
| Country | cases | deaths |
|---|---|---|
| USA | 26014544 | 435605 |
| Brazil | 8936590 | 218918 |
| India | 10690279 | 153751 |
| Mexico | 1771740 | 150273 |
| UK | 3689746 | 100162 |
| Italy | 2485943 | 86422 |
| France | 3079943 | 74106 |
| Russia | 3756931 | 70482 |
| Iran | 1385706 | 57560 |
| Spain | 2733729 | 56799 |
Coronavirus weekly death graph for USA + Brazil + India + Mexico + UK + Italy
raspberry pi: Credit card sized super cheap computer, awesome.
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