I watch a lot of Lifetime movies, and it was cool to see one filmed in the St. Pete area just a stone's throw away. I recognized the area, and on a form in the movie, it said Pinellas County and that really is Pinellas County.

It's also cool to see how Duolingo keeps track of how many days I review my languages. It has a unique-looking icon on my phone with the number of days on it.

I taped my mouth as snugly as I could without being uncomfortable. But sure enough, just as I was dropping off to sleep, air was leaking. My first thought was, fuck the CPAP. I'm not going to sleep with anything if both masks are just going to leak. I've got a serious curse on my sleep and there's just no getting rid of it. I'm going to have to accept I'm going to spend the rest of my life on the tired side.

But realizing that not sleeping with anything was bordering on dangerous, I decided to get the damned chin strap out after all. Although uncomfortable, it wasn't as uncomfortable as the hybrid. I think I remember something like two instances of air trying to escape. My sleep was mildly fraggy, but I never had to get up and pee. I ended up getting my lowest AHI score yet at an incredible 0.5 events!

I definitely feel better today. The next question is whether or not to carry on with this routine or jump to trying the hybrid again. Just because it worked out well last night doesn't mean it's going to keep working out. I didn't realize it would be so damn hard to get a good seal with these things! I'm at the point now where I can sleep with them just fine. It's the fucking leaks that's the issue. I guess I'll see how many decent sleeps in a row I can get with the chin strap before I resort to the medieval torture device called a hybrid.

Been loading up on salmon and eggs and foods that help enhance and optimize thyroid function in preparation for going to the lab on the 3rd. Sure hope my TSH is under 10! Hopefully, my cholesterol isn't too out of control and my A1C hasn't risen, but I'm not treating either one, especially the cholesterol. As sensitive as I am to medication, if I don't feel the symptoms, I don't treat it. I don't expect any of my other numbers to be bad. I think the best I can hope for is that I'm still prediabetic, my TSH is under 10 but not normal, and my cholesterol is through the roof as usual.

Played around with Character.ai for a bit, and while it's cool that you can put your characters on a group chat, it gets boring quickly.

For a fleeting moment, I almost wished I could update Tammy on how my health has been over the last half a decade and settle my own curiosity about her living situation. I couldn’t care less about her moody, narcissistic brats. That was the one area she was very empathetic and understanding with because she too, has suffered a host of health issues. But after learning much too late in life, the toxic drama that would eventually come with it is totally not worth it. Better to judge people on how they treat you and not whether or not you're related. Biology should never be a ticket to abuse someone. She has memory issues from hell, lies too much, would want to do nothing but talk about God and her brood when it wasn't health stuff, have long phone chats that just aren't my thing, and then as soon as she got pissed at me for whatever, on come the threats and harassment—with the help of her own kids that she has join her in the immature bullying campaign. Sure, I now have a phone that can block numbers, but that doesn't mean one can't download apps to make it look like they're calling from different numbers that I have to keep blocking as I already do with spammers and scammers.