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We use Tactacams, been pretty good. I have several with lithium battery packs and solar, they run the season vs battery changes. We have crap cell signal so thye burn some extra battery dealing wtih that at our place.

I tried replying but it got stripped I guess. First name Noah, and he doesn't have an arc.

I’ve been working on a project to bring my health data from multiple sources together so I can see and analyze it in one place and thought some here might be interested in something like this so I wanted to share an outline that can be reprodudced with your own data sources or for your needs.

My goal is to use the data to help keep my Type 2 diabetes under control without medication. I also want to better understand how sleep, exercise, recovery and nutrition affect my blood glucose. I like to see data and track progress, so having it all together vs across multiple apps makes sense for the way I look at things.

What I’m using:

Garmin — activity, workouts, sleep, recovery and other health data
Libre 3 CGM — continuous glucose data
Freddy — personal MCP server that connects health and fitness data to AI assistants
Health Connect — Android connection used to move data between supported apps
Future add — Cronometer for nutrition and meal timing
Future add — Tonal for strength-training data

I connected Garmin directly to Freddy. The free version of Freddy only allows one data source, and running Garmin through Health Connect stripped out too much data. I paid the $49 annual fee so I could connect Garmin directly and get essentially everything Garmin tracks. My Libre 3 connects through Health Connect on my Android phone to Freddy, where the glucose data can be matched with the Garmin data.

I’m planning to add Cronometer for nutrition and meal timing and Tonal for strength training. This will let me match meals and strength workouts with glucose, activity, sleep and recovery.

The final phase will be a private, cloud-hosted dashboard I can access from my phone or laptop. It will have timeline overlays showing glucose along with meals, walks, workouts, sleep and other events. This should make it easier to see what is affecting my blood glucose and other health metrics. I’ll also be able to create a report link for my MD or generate a PDF to print or share if he wants the info.

Before Mingo or anyone says lose weight fatty, I am not fat, I just can't out run my genes so T2 was in the cards for me. I am totally under control with diet and exercise unlike some of my family who rely on insulin and other meds.

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Is there a quicker way to enter a DOB rather than clicking to the previous month a hundred times

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I'll provide the code to anyone that wants it and you can have Claude default it to your bday or edit how you see fit. I removed it from mine since I wanted to share it out.

I just priced auto and switched. I saved freaking $863 every six months by making a call to farm bureau insurance. What a BS scam auto insurance is in Louisiana.

WSTE ran to my house for free when we built 5 years ago. They just made me sign something stating I wouldn't pursue power with another company which we have access to from the other side of our place.

I changed to Visible a while back. It's Verizon service, you may get throttled during high usage times, and you only have idiots that run chat for support. It's a major savings, I have not ever noticed being throttled either.

Visible Plans

It wasn't wired up right, I messed with it some this afternoon but have not tested anything.


updated with federal tax

I found 2 errors in the code and fixed them. In the original, annual salary was pulled once a year and not monthly allowing interest to grow on money that will normally be pulled monthly. Second the table below was calculating gains a year off allowing every year of portfolio value to earn and over 30 years that skewed results. This is much more realistic.

updated modeler

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Can you increase the expense and the portfolio max?

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Needs a teacher retirement option for the spouse…

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You should be able to edit it in Claude and add what you want, this suits me so far and it's big enough that adding anything or asking questions eats up my free tokens. I am going to play with various types of investments and tax strategies next I think,

I can download the code and send it out of you put your email in, i don't think I can paste that much in a message.

I built a retirement modeler in Claude and figured I'd share it in case anyone wants to mess around with it. It should be pretty self-explanatory, but if something doesn't make sense or you have questions, I'll answer them if I see them.

Just open the link in your own Claude account and make a copy. From there you can change anything you want or add features if you think of something useful.

I'm thinking about adding support for different retirement account types, some tax modeling, and maybe a tab that looks up state tax rates so you can compare what retiring in different places might save or cost you. I mostly built it because I like running different "what if" scenarios. It's definitely not a replacement for a financial planner or any retirement software you're already using—just another tool to play with and see how different decisions affect the numbers.


Claude link to modeler