On Friday I posted a to-do list for myself for the weekend and I did almost everything!  Amazing!  The only thing I missed was the most important one.  Oh well.

Take down the Christmas tree.  Done.  We’ll be sweeping up pine needles for decades to come.

Put away the Christmas decorations.  Done.  I didn’t count the lights on the house, and those are still up.  There is also a big plastic Santa in the driveway that needs to be put away.  Otherwise we got it all.

Reorganize the living room.  Done.  Ish.  There are still a few things we want to do, but we are very happy with it right now.  See the 10000 pictures I posted on Saturday.

Replace the heroic snow shovel.  Done.  I got the tallest one I could find at Lowes.

Replace the fluorescent light bulbs.  Done, but it’s still an issue.  The bulb in the kitchen was definitely burned out, but the replacement doesn’t work.  It flickered for a second or two and then nothing.  Similar results in the cellar.  Two new bulbs in the back of the room worked great.  Two new bulbs next to the stairs come on, but they just flicker dimly.  There is definitely power going to the two lights that are still not working so it’s something else.  I might need an electrician.

See Star Wars again.  Done.  I stuck with Diet Coke though.

Go to Weight Watchers and Planet Fitness… ummm… Did I mention we took down the tree?

Remember that last post about how Saturday night had a really good sleep?

Forget that. Sunday sucked.

I mentioned a few days ago that I changed my mask, hose, and harness on my CPAP machine.  The immediate result was quieter operation and that’s what I was hoping for.  The actual sleep results though…

I found the mask seal to be a little iffy, just like it was when I first started using the machine.  I hadn’t had a problem with that for a couple of months, but there I was waking up 4-5 times a night again.  I guess maybe the little plastic skirt thingies on the masks need some time to break in?  Is that possible?

More concerning was the results I was getting off my AppleWatch.  One of the whole points of getting the machine in the first place was to increase the amount of restful sleep I get each night.  The SleepWatch app has, over the past five months or so, been showing that about 70% of my sleep is restful and the rest is light.  On the couple of occasions that I have sleep with the watch on but without the machine that percentage has been around 50%.  The first couple of nights after changing out the equipment had me at about 50%.  Was that because I was waking up a lot?  Could be.  I don’t remember that happening in the beginning of all of this though.

Last night was much better.  Last night was closer to pre-mask change.  I took the mask off three times, but one of them was about a minute after I initially put it on, so that doesn’t count.  I only woke up twice, and the first of those times I was back to sleep almost immediately.  My restful sleep percentage was 76% and my heart rate dip was 25% (not that the heart rate dip was a problem).

I still don’t feel completely rested when I wake up in the morning, but last night was the first really positive result since I changed the equipment.  I feel good about that.  I feel so good in fact that I just went to the Lowes website and ordered a bunch of fluorescent light bulb tubes and a new snow shovel with a curved handle.

Even better, Jen made pancakes for breakfast and she just called us all to the table!  Bonus!

Change pisses her off and she’s really pissed off now.

Still lots of stuff to do, but it’s lunch time so Disney+.

The second annual living room re-design project is underway and boy did we make a mess!

The couch is in front of the window, the TV is opposite the window, the blackout curtains are drawn.  Nothing is hooked up yet and a bunch of things need to find a new home.  First though, Jen and Harry are on a floor lamp* acquisition quest while I give my aching back a bit of a breather.

Yikes!

 

*I typo’d this as “lap” instead of “lamp” and proof read it twice without catching it.  I didn’t notice until after I hit publish.  My elementary school teachers would be so disappointed in me.

In case you were wondering, The Rise of Skywalker holds up after a second viewing.  I still love every spec of celluloid (or the digital equivalent).

Thank you,
Good night.

6:52 PM

It’s a 7:15 PM show.

I’m the only one here.

I think I’m early.

May the Force Be With Me and my empty theater.

Okay, the nerd factor is running very high on this one.  You’ve been warned.

I did that 2019 in Flickr yesterday.  One picture from each month last year.  I got to thinking… could I do that with one a year for the decade?  No, I thought.  My memory isn’t good enough to pull off a scheme like that.  I would just end up picking the first thing I saw and there would be even less meaning to it than there was yesterday.

But…

Flickr Pro users get stats.  I could go to the list of most viewed images and find the most viewed one from each year.  That would be cool, though maybe not as cool as using Flickr’s mysterious “interestingness” algorithm.

So I figured I’d give it a shot, I mean it’s no lamer than anything else I do here.  I had to dig through just under 100 pictures to get the most viewed image per year for each year from 2010-2019.  Here they are…

2019 (7,577 views):

2018 (12,588 views):

2017 (8,510 views):

2016 (5,019 views):

2015 (7,959 views):

2014 (11,789 views):

2013 (3,255 views):

2012 (3,067 views):

2011 (4,274 views):

2010 (2,708 views):

Wow, wasn’t that fun? I sure thought so. Wasn’t it interesting? Well… according to Flickr, no. It wasn’t interesting. Flickr has an algorithm that tries to determine which photographs are good or not. They call it “interestingness.” The Explore page that I gush about on the rare instances something I post is added to it is based on interestingness.

You can see your most interesting photos by clicking on your About page. I didn’t think there was a way to sort all of my images by interestingness but lo and behold there is a way! There was a little link off to the side of the full list sorted by views. I clicked it and BAM, a list of everything I’ve uploaded sorted by interestingness. Well that’s a fine howdoyado, eh? Here we go then, the most interesting pictures of the past decade, one from each year!

Exciting, isn’t it???  I’m just tingling with anticipation!

2019:

2018:

2017:

2016:

2015:

2014:

2013:

2012:

2011:

2010:

Talk about thrilling, huh? Wow!

 

Some quick things to note.  Four years have the same photo in each category (2011-2013, and 2015).  In a perfect world I would expect every year to be the same, but sometimes what the viewers like is different than what the system likes.  Also, did anyone notice that the most interesting pics from 2016 and 2017 were taken in the same exact spot?  Flickr likes what Flickr likes, I guess.

And that, dear readers, is what a red head does on his lunch break.

Happy New Decade!