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Sleep Apnea Thoughts

I was tested for Sleep Apnea because I couldn’t get a good nights sleep to save my life and I was snoring so loud that I couldn’t stay in the room with Jen anymore.

When I started looking into Gastric Bypass I was told that the surgery would result in enough weight loss to cure my apnea. That sounded good to me.

101 pounds later I’m trying to decide how I’ll know when my apnea is cured if I never stop using the CPAP machine. It seems the only course of action is to just stop using it and see what happens.

But when? I asked Jen what she thought, given that my snoring keeps her awake even more than it keeps me awake. We were both on the same page. If I lose 30 more pounds I’ll do an experiment where I don’t use the machine for a night and see what happens. I’ll be curious how it affects Jen’s sleep, and what the sleep numbers my AppleWatch records look like.

At this rate that will be 4-5 weeks from now. Until then I’ll keep sticking that mask over my face.

That’s Interesting

Turns out my little Nikon point and shoot has a built in Wi-Fi. You can connect it to your phone and use a Nikon app to transfer images from the memory card to the phone’s camera roll.

I just took this and uploaded it to my phone while sitting up in bed watching The Sandman (episode one) on my iPad.

We live in a thoroughly groovy world.

My Forgotten Camera

I’ve been blathering on and on about the two film cameras I recently acquired, and the digital DSLR they have re-inspired me to obsess over, but there is another camera that I have ignored through all of this.

I bought a little Nikon Coolpix S7000 back in 2015 (I think) in order to have something tiny to sneak into a couple of Rush concerts.

The last couple of times I used it the images came out bad. They were washed out and overexposed. I didn’t know why. Now, after a month or two of watching how-to-shoot in manual mode tutorials on the YouTube it occurred to me that I might want to take a look at the settings and see if anything jumps out at me.

Yup, the White Balance setting was set to always expect daylight, that’s probably why only things shot in daylight looked good. Huh. I’m charging her up right now. Let’s see if that solved the issue, shall we?

In parting, here’s a bunch of S7000 pics from the pre-pandemic, pre-“why is my white balance set like that” days.…