20 March 2014 - Wayne has a new gadget

To know Wayne is to love him. He's most funny when he's not intending to be funny and that's when he makes me laugh the hardest and love him the most.

Wayne is also a gadget person. He loves wine stoppers that suck out excess air and vegetable peelers that remove minimal amounts of outer skin. The internet has proved to be a boom for his investigative mind and there are always surprises arriving in the mail. Case in point.....

I came home from my writer's group today and he was at the pool. After he came back to the condo and changed from his bathing suit we had our first opportunity to find out how each other's day had been so far. It wasn't until we had been sitting and talking for about 15 minutes that I noticed he had a black band on his wrist. He loves watches and I thought perhaps he'd bought something different and so asked what the black band was about. His nostrils flared a bit....always the definitive sign that some really special was going to be revealed. When I think I've seen it all, I get to see something new.

"It's a FitBit", he said, and continued tapping on his computer. The look of confusion on my face prompted him to continue. He pulled out a small, lightweight, rectangular 'thing' from a small pocket on the black band and tossed it to me. It's about 1 1/2 inches long and 1/2 inch wide with a clip on the back that could be attached to a pocket or something.

"It's says that I slept for 8.2 hours last night, was awake for 25 minutes, was restless for 14 minutes and I can see that I got up to go to the bathroom twice...and I know exactly what time each of those visits happened. It also tells me I walked 15,000 steps yesterday, and I ingested 43% fat and 42% carbs. The best part is that by the time I walk into the house it has downloaded everything onto my computer."

Seriously?

There was a look of pure rapture on his face that I've seen before...when he got the ForeRunner. No, not a Jeep or any other mode of transportation but a gadget that measures his heart rate before, during, and after exercising plus other things I once knew but have now forgotten. It also automatically downloads 'stuff' to his computer! What makes each of these almost an out-of-body experience for him is that it can all be put onto a spread sheet!

I admit I'm an exercise slag and therefore gadgets designed to tell me anything about how my body functions just doesn't excite me too much even thought he tells me the FitBit comes in pink. It appears that I can't have enough shoes and Wayne will never have enough gadgets.