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It took a while to find an Android app that would just tell me how far I have walked. I don't want to plan a route - my route this summer is wherever there is shade. I don't want steps, or calories burned, or how fast I'm going. I don't need a map of where I've been. Map My Walk is the best I have found and it has a 5x what I want, but pretty simple to just start a walk, and it notifies me every quarter mile (adjustable), which is handy. You can't buy it - subscription only.

KROGER has quit stocking whole wheat spaghetti. BAD. They still have, for now, whole wheat thin spaghetti.

Gestures - I have railed against gestures as an input method on phones before. But I was hit with it recently. I was testing one of my Android apps on a virtual phone with Android defaulted to gesture navigation. I needed the app list but could not find it. I gave up my search and asked Perplexity.ai. The answer - swipe up on the home screen. What? How was I supposed to know that? It seems to me that gestures are a lot like invisible icons. I hate icons, but with a (visible) icon, even if I can't decode the meaning, at least I know some function is a touch away. But a gesture?

Philips Norelco One Blade electric razor - excellent. It's like an electric hair clipper or hedge trimmer, except the head is only about 1+1/4 by a 1/2 inch. And it has a surface that lets you drag it across your skin smoothly. It doesn't shave as close as fancy razors. But it doesn't leave long hairs that don't get under the foil. And it doesn't pull hairs. No pain. Doesn't irritate skin.

I hate sock that squeeze my feet. Many years ago, I found Gildan size 12-15 gray crew socks. Much better than other socks although they still squeezed a bit. I don't know why, but the black ones were much tighter. I never tried white. But they quit making them. Inexplicably, the low cut versions of these socks were no looser that their regular socks. I tried other large size socks - they were longer but not any looser. Searching Amazon recently to see if Gildan had started making the 12-15 gray crew socks again, I found these - Extra Wide Comfort Fit Socks. There are other brands that appear similar, but the Extra Wide brand has a much higher cotton content. They are expensive, about $10/pair. The medium size socks are loose on my feet. Fantastic. As with all socks that I wear, I cut the calf part off to just above my ankle.

Brooks Adrenaline 24 (running) shoe tongue loops - finally a shoe company has addressed the problem of shoe tongues falling to the side. A small string loop on each side of the tongue. The shoe string goes through the loop and holds the tongue up and reasonably centered. A significant advancement in shoe technology!

Amazon Kindle - it appears that they have fixed the page number line display (see Software Bugs post). It took about nine months.