Trying to move beyond the unrelated medical stuff - I moved one post over to another thread, but I'll just suggest here we stick to our household projects. (And I'd like to hear more about the work with opal that you've been doing.)

The new Steel HR arrived today and is charging. The test will be if it actually registers the heart rate; the last watch never did or stopped a long time ago. The newer more expensive models do all of this plus have things like a pulse oximeter, but I don't need that. I just want to see the heart rate when I exercise, etc. The older watch has for now been dissociated from the account and soon I'll do a factory reset and consider what to do with it. It's still a fine fitness tracker (for steps).

I did my volunteering then had lunch with my daughter followed by a tour of her new library in this new museum. Very nice - hidden in the newer building on the museum site, and no art on the walls (it's only a few years old). It is a new building and the previous librarian (who had been there for 40 years) didn't put up art when the library was moved to this location. I'll look forward to the transformation, because "art" is pretty much this librarian's middle name.

After the gym I stopped at Costco and I noticed a woman in a surgical boot looking around the parking lot near where I parked. I asked if she'd lost her car and it turned out her almost-son-in-law dropped her off to pick up an Rx and she was supposed to call him when she was ready to be picked up, but had left her phone and home and she didn't know his number to use another phone to call him. When I came out of the store she had gotten a scooter cart to use to look around and I offered her a ride home since it turned out she lived a couple of miles south of me. Very nice conversation, interesting story, nice woman. We weren't wearing masks, but we did determine that we were both vaccinated and boosted (she had COVID in 2020 and lost her husband and mother-in-law to it within 3 days of each other.) As soon as she got home she was going to call the young man and tell him to come back home from wherever he was. This sounds kind of like a Dorothy story!