Month: January 2012

  • my sleep & nocturnal ramblings

    Here’s a bit of a review of Sleepcycle, Fitbit & Zeo as ways of monitoring your sleep activity. It has to be said at the outset that I have never suffered from a problem with falling asleep or staying asleep 🙂 My only problems are my nocturnal ramblings to take a pee due to my…

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  • Going into the red to get out of the red!

    Nope, I’m not talking about borrowing money to pay of credit card debts. I’m talking about The Fitbit 🙂 and balancing the amount of calories you eat against the calories you burn through exercise. The Fitbit rates your exercise levels into 4 levels, sedentary, lightly, fairly & very active. Very active is shown as red…

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  • Heavy snow in Les Gets

    Here is the guy clearing the entrance to my apartment in Les Gets this morning. Oh how I would love to have such a machine 🙂 High winds prevented access to the Northern  slopes of Mont Chéry today, so hopefully lots of new runs there tomorrow. Here is the scene at the mid station today:…

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  • The Kindle needs me 🙂

    Oh dear it has been officially noted that I’m been very lazy. Just received this from Amazon:- We noticed your blog (listed below) has not updated for more than 30 days. Kindle customers expect to receive frequent updates for blogs and news feeds to which they subscribe. Because blogs should update at least once per…

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