Cat Daddy has treated me to one of those Oura fitness tracker rings. As well as monitoring all sorts of things such as sleep and heart rate, it also looks unbelievably cool. 

Setting up these electronic devices is always easy when it works, less easy when it doesn’t, and downright bloody impossible when you have a cat clambering all over you and being a massive shite.

Can you guess in which of the above categories I belong? Go on, take your time. 

Because the Oura ring charger isn’t the standard USB-sized one that we all know, I had to go into the kitchen to hunt for Cat Daddy’s MacBook charger which fits. Louis Catorze followed me, screaming and screaming. Then, when it was time to pair my ring with the app via Bluetooth, the little sod lost his shit completely, climbing up my body and demanding to be held. 

So I had to complete the set-up process standing up, using one hand only and holding Catorze with the other. Luckily he is small enough for me to be able to do so. And, equally luckily, the bit of the Oura ring that monitors stress levels hadn’t had a chance to kick in at that point, otherwise my baseline reading would have gone rocketing through the roof. 

Yes, I did consider ticking both “I have small kids” (meaning him) and “I share my bed with someone” (also meaning him).

Have I made the right decision, deciding to embark upon weeks, months and years of being told exactly how many times something pisses me off or wakes me up in the night? 

No need to wonder what this something might be, of course. We already know. 

“One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne.”

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15 responses to “Un anneau pour les gouverner tous”

  1. M - avatar

    Those gadgets that attach to the body scare me.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      Is it because you think They are watching and listening? I know for a fact that They are, whether or not things are attached to you. 🤣🤣🤣

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      1. M - avatar

        No, it’s the electro-magnetic frequencies that can cause real harm to living things – such as human beings. It’s bad enough that we are surrounded by EMFs but the health risk is even greater when gadgets emitting them are attached to our bodies for long periods of time (such as constantly carrying your phone in your hand or pocket.)

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  2. mcmcneil1 avatar
    mcmcneil1

    Is it possible Catorze went nuts when you were programming the ring because he sensed ANOTHER alien intelligence ?

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      Oh God, so now I’m living with TWO extra-terrestrial life forms?

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  3. mmechapeau avatar
    mmechapeau

    Personally, I don’t know anybody wearing such a ring. I do hope it will help you to feel better.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      You probably do! They’re quite unobtrusive and they just look like normal jewellery.

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      1. mmechapeau avatar
        mmechapeau

        I saw that after asking my friend G♦♦gle. Actually, I carry on living in the last century, ignoring a lot of things like this one.

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  4. Herman avatar
    Herman

    What a coincidence! Yesterday, I had troubles with installing the Daikin app for the AC on my iPhone. After 7 attempts it was finally working… Installing apps to control devices via wifi never work from the first time…

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      Every year we say we will get AC and then we don’t do it. In our little terraced house designed for a temperate climate, summers can be brutal.

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  5. Kate Crimmins avatar

    Obviously he loves you and was worried about this new thing.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      I’m pretty sure that wasn’t it. 🤣🤣🤣

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  6. cat9984 avatar

    But he looks so cute when he’s sleeping. 🙂

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      Especially with his fangs sticking out! 🤣🤣🤣

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