Tag: Apple Watch

I Need to Play

I haven’t played my guitar this week and the stir crazy is getting to me. I’ve done a lot of work on 50/90 but none of it on guitar. I’ve got eight songs with vocals recorded that are just waiting for leads. I have three that are ready for rhythm guitar. Tonight. I hope. All totaled, I’m up to 47 songs now. Three more to go and then all I have to do is the gigantic mountain of work left to finish them up.

The Agents of Shield re-watch is up to season five episode one. It opens with a montage set to a Talking Heads song. At least I think it’s a Talking Heads song. It’s definitely David Byrne singing. It lead me to the question: The year is 2020, is it time for me to give Talking Heads a try? I more or less ignored them back in the 80’s. Should I change my mind? Change my tune, so to speak?

Jen and I have been trying to exercise. I’ve been getting 30 minutes or so in each day for the last few days. I’ve been slacking a little today though. One of the things the Apple Watch activity app tracks is calories burned. I had the goal set at 640. I can’t remember if I set that or if it defaulted that way, but it’s been like that forever.

My SleepWatch app has been giving me notifications stating that I get better sleep if I burn 800 calories. That’s interesting. The last few exercise filled days have seen me going way above 800 and I have been sleeping a little better than normal. I guess that settles it. My activity app has been upped from 640 to 800 calories. Yup. I need to go for a 5-6 minute walk now.

Two Fast, Too Furious

The title of the post is just a pun. No one is furious. Unless you count being furious at the dictator cheeto for being recorded saying that Covid was a killer all the way back in February. That’s not what you get furious about. What you get furious about is that 50% of the idiots who vote still think he’s doing a great job, the fucking dogs.

Anyway.

51 minutes ago I finished my second intermittent fast. Two days in a row of no eating between 9:00pm and 1:00pm the next day. Something tells me that I’m going to get sick of this really quick, but for today… Two fast, too furious. Or something like that.

I’ve started having a little problem with my Apple Watch. Yesterday it froze on me. It went to sleep and wouldn’t wake up. I rebooted and everything was fine… or so I thought. About an hour later I saw a no-connection error icon. What? I checked my iPhone and sure enough the phone and the watch were not connected via bluetooth. I re-connected them and it was fine for a while but eventually it disconnected again.

I went to Wise Master Google and it told me to just toggle the bluetooth function on my iphone. That seems to have worked so far, at least for a couple of hours, but I have been having a little bit of an issue connecting to Siri. Its only working when my phone and I are in the same room. Weird.

My step son just wrapped up his second day of school. He did it all from his room. He’s in the living room doing music theory homework on the electric piano right now. As of today the full remote schooling is still just for this week. For now though, it’s such a relief to know he’s not going into the coronaviral plague pit otherwise known as the high school. I really don’t want him to go back, at least not without a vaccine, and not a rushed-poison-election-year-gimmick vaccine. I’m so tired of this.

So how are you all doing?

Apple Watch Faces

On my first Apple Watch I made two watch faces. When I upgraded from Series One to Series Three I kept them and didn’t create anything new.

I only used the Mickey Mouse face when I was on vacation, or when I had nothing important going on.

Now that I have a Series Five I’ve been playing with new watch faces. So far I’ve put two together that I kinda like.

I’m not sure which one I prefer. I’ve got the blue one on now. I might switch to the white one.

So many options!

Really, Mickey is still the best.

Apple Watch Status

A few days ago, my love and I were discussing the status of our respective Apple Watches. Hers is a Series 4. Mine is a Series 3. Hers has more features, but mine has better battery life. I need the better battery because I wear my watch to sleep so I can’t recharge it over night.

We talked about the pros and cons of getting a series 5 when they come out.

Assuming they hadn’t come out yet.

Did you know they’ve already come out? I didn’t… until the one Jen bought just showed up at our door.

It’s synching to my iPhone now.

Gadget happy. Thank you for the surprise, Lovey!

Apple Watch Question

Have any other owners of the first gen Apple Watch noticed that since the OS update the battery life has been drastically reduced? I used to be able to go nearly two days on one charge, but now I’m lucky if I can go 12 hours without going into power save mode.

It’s pissing me off.

My First Apple Watch Issue

It was bound to happen sooner or later, but I just stumbled upon my first Apple Watch issue. Last night I noticed that none of the third party apps I’ve installed were working. I got a prompt to unlock my iphone, even when my iphone wasn’t locked. Odd.

I tried again today and got the same error. I googled the error message and found an Apple Forum post that told me I needed to unpair my phone and watch, and then re-pair them. The unpairing process includes a back up, so I wasn’t going to lose any data.

The unpairing worked as expected. No issues. When I tried to re-pair them though it acted a little strange. First, the watch rebooted and then went through a pretty slow process that looked as though it was un-synching. None of the how to’s on the Apple Forum mentioned that. After a few minutes I was prompted to pair the watch to a phone and I was off and running. The phone gave me the option to restore from a back up and most everything worked. The only thing I’ve noticed is that the MLB app seems to have gone missing. Not a big deal though as it only showed info from games played by the team I have marked as my favorite on the iPhone App and that team’s season is over.

Everything is back to normal now, but having to unpair the watch and the iphone still counts as my first largish Apple Watch issue. Hopefully it is also the last.

To show that third party apps now work, here is a pic of my ceiling, taken with ProCam:


Originally published at robj2112.wordpress.com on October 8, 2015.

My First Apple Watch Issue

It was bound to happen sooner or later, but I just stumbled upon my first Apple Watch issue.  Last night I noticed that none of the third party apps I’ve installed were working.  I got a prompt to unlock my iphone, even when my iphone wasn’t locked.  Odd.

I tried again today and got the same error.  I googled the error message and found an Apple Forum post that told me I needed to unpair my phone and watch, and then re-pair them.  The unpairing process includes a back up, so I wasn’t going to lose any data.

The unpairing worked as expected.  No issues.  When I tried to re-pair them though it acted a little strange.  First, the watch rebooted and then went through a pretty slow process that looked as though it was un-synching.  None of the how to’s on the Apple Forum mentioned that.  After a few minutes I was prompted to pair the watch to a phone and I was off and running.  The phone gave me the option to restore from a back up and most everything worked.  The only thing I’ve noticed is that the MLB app seems to have gone missing.  Not a big deal though as it only showed info from games played by the team I have marked as my favorite on the iPhone App and that team’s season is over.

Everything is back to normal now, but having to unpair the watch and the iphone still counts as my first largish Apple Watch issue.  Hopefully it is also the last.

To show that third party apps now work, here is a pic of my ceiling, taken with ProCam:
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