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Your goal and my DH's are pretty much the same. He was disappointed to be up .4 today vs being down the 2 he wanted. We talked about stalls and he says he knows he needs to just "stay the course".

Just out of curiosity do any dogs ever end up sleeping on the bed? None of my previous dogs did but Justice is a different story :)

Yeah, my phone kinda serves many purposes, news, entertainment, social, research, even my Bible studying! I don'****ch much tv unless we watch a show together in the evening.

126.3, going back down. I have to admit that I much prefer being on the low end of my range vs. the higher end. The food noise has definitely increased, especially as it pertains to wanting to snack on both sweet and salty things. Reintroducing them back into my diet because I was losing too much weight is the culprit. I need to be more mindful of how I allocate my maintenance calories.

Today is filled with Bible study, readying for the Art Fair, Jane Fonda step aerobics and warming up leftover Schwarma for dinner.

So far DH isn?t driving me too crazy being home all the time. We are definitely on different schedules though. The other night he was gaming until midnight and this morning he was at Home Depot at 6 am and then has been napping since mid morning. I do get frustrated with the amount of time he spends on gaming but it isn?t really much different than me scrolling on my phone which frustrates him!

I wish I knew! I can't get into my router (the a/v people control it), but there was something not set right on it that they changed that was supposed to fix it, but it didn't. Others have said it's an Apple issue and the handoff feature between devices messes with it, but turning that off didn't fix it. Another guy said the phone is trying to grab onto a cell signal and so it flips mid call to the cell tower, then loses the signal, hence the breaking up. So who knows. Whatever it is, it drives me insane. It must have also maddened the previous owners because they had an expensive booster system put in, but that doesn't help either. Given the topography, not every neighbor has the same issue. So it's hard to problem solve. My friend I had problems with and my board buddy have trouble too, but my immediate next door neighbor has great coverage (just enough clear of the rise blocking me).

Ugh, so with all the towering red rocks and canyons here the sight lines to the cell towers are awful especially for my neighborhood as we are a ways out of town. And the tower equipment is pretty old here (no 5G). So most of the time I have 1 bar or "SOS" showing on my phone.

Which would then make WiFi calling seem like the answer except no matter what I try, it doesn't work in my house with my iPhone 16 (or 15 or 14). I can hear them, they can't hear me. And being in the middle of nowhere, landlines aren't available. My last ditch effort was to try a VOIP line (an internet phone number that doesn't involve cell towers). And that breaks up constantly too. So my only option is to go outside to talk on the phone. Which is fine when the weather is nice, but if it's snowing/raining or 20 or 100 degrees or blowing like crazy, it's not fun!

We have an unusual kind of internet in my neighborhood given our remoteness called a WISP and while it's pretty fast most of the time, something about it doesn't seem to play well with wifi calling, but none of the experts can tell me why. I've thought about putting in Starlink, but that feels like an expensive prospect for something I'm not sure will fix the problem.

Far more than you even wanted to know about my phone issues, I'm certain!