My goofy fitness ring has been pestering me to start tracking my blood glucose for my wellness, so I’ve been doing that for a few days by wearing a weird dot on the back of my arm.

Early takeaways:

1. Continuous glucose monitoring is an extremely cool technology. If I had diabetes or some other reason to stay aware of it, I’d be super grateful somebody thought it up.
2. I don’t have diabetes.

Friends who know more about medicine than me don’t seem very happy these devices are being marketed to people without any sort of indicated condition, but we just love quantifying ourselves, don’t we folks?

Pessimistically on the subject, via Luke O’Neil: “The appointment is this week and I’m worried she’s going to tell me all my numbers look fine. That there is nothing wrong with me that I have the power to fix.”

Pragmatically on the subject, via Eric Allix Rogers: “I too am biohacking, but my goal is to die at a reasonable age and not be miserable.”

First Sunday of farmers market season! Remind me that I should walk down here every weekend.

Please enjoy the mystery presented in the latest episode of Search Engine: “The Dave and Busters Anomaly”. No spoilers, but my brain is broken by too much time spent close to the computer, so I pretty much guessed it right.

Observation without context: almost every Airbnb story I’ve ever been told begins with “We couldn’t get into our Airbnb, so…”