My keto-mojo meter arrived

And boy, am I disappointed. I tried measuring my blood ketones, twice, and they came back as "low" and "0.2 mmol/L", respectively. Given that I've consumer less than 20 grams of carbs per day (total not net), and burned an average of well over 3,500 calories each day, that seems unlikely. The strips were brand new, and I set up the meter and calibrated it to the strip batch according to the directions. So I tried testing my blood glucose (also with new, branded strips), several times, and every single time the meter claimed the strip had already been used. So either the meter is screwed up, or the company themselves (who I ordered from directly) are sending me defective strips. Or both.

Anyway, today was fairly mild; stretching, strength training (slight increase in the weight for lying dumbbell extensions), and a couple moderate bike rides. I bought a raspberry pi 4 and a cheap wifi router. I'd like the get the raspberry pi to connect to an external network with its onboard wifi, then provide an internet connection via its ethernet port to the router. Then, I'll have the raspberry pi direct all traffic through NordVPN or a similar service unless otherwise instructed. I also want to get a SATA hat for it and connect several high-capacity hard drive to it; by running SnapRAID, I should be able to achieve a capacity of (drive size)x(number of drives-1) while retaining single drive failure tolerance. Add in some automated drive diagnostics to warn of probably impending failure, and a solid power supply for everything, and I should have a high-capacity, fault-tolerant file server and VPN-protected internet gateway. Any device that connects should have protected traffic and access to my entire file collection. If I get just a bit more ambitious than that, a USB MicroSD adapter could be left hooked up; periodic backup of the system's boot card to that card means that, even if the boot card itself fails, it can just get swapped out with the backup. Even the raspi itself should be relatively easy to replace. Hopefully, I can fit all this in an ammo can; small, portable, robust.

We'll see.