The road is a lover
You never recover
Not now or any time soon
My head starts to spin
When I think where I’ve been
Playin’ twin to an old fiddle tune, oh
As the wind chases after the moon

A great song on one of my favorite bluegrass albums, So Long So Wrong. #NomadLifestyle

(Speaking of Alison Krauss & Union Station, there’s a brand new long-awaited album out and boy oh boy am I buying it!!)

My Garmin watch did not sync activities with the Garmin Connect iOS app upon returning home from a week of travels. It did sync my steps from the day I landed, my sleep that night, and steps the following day. It just failed to pick up my running, hiking, and other activities logged when I was abroad.

After a little searching and filtering out obvious tips (make sure Bluetooth is on and paired), I found the key steps and fixed it.

How to get the Garmin Connect iOS app to sync Garmin watch activities that are seemingly being ignored:

1. unpair watch from phone (iOS Settings > Bluetooth > (i) next to watchname > "Forget This Device")
2. hard restart watch (e.g. hold down backlight button on a fenix 7S Pro to turn it off)
3. restart Garmin Connect app (force quit and re-open)
4. re-pair watch to phone
5. wait a while for all the activities to sync

It seemed to sync hikes and walks first, then runs, roughly in reverse chronological order.

The syncing spinner indicator in Garmin Connect took a while and prematurely completed the progress circle ○, and kept “spinning” the arrows 🔁 inside the circle for many minutes.

Note: having some idea how software is written and handles queues etc., I highly recommend fixing any syncing problems like this before recording another activity in your watch. There is a chance that the software bug(s) that caused the syncing problem in the first place may inadvertently only pick up the latest activity and make it even harder to recover or sync the previously unsynced activities.

I had no luck with web searching, e.g. for
* why is Garmin ios app not syncing recent activities from my Garmin watch
and similar queries.

All “AI Overview” results were useless.

Only after going to https://support.garmin.com/ and entering my watch model name and number did I somehow find this article:
* Garmin Connect App: Device Is Paired but Not Connecting to App: https://support.garmin.com/en-US/?faq=9BcXLSQ4A22gasLarkUvH6

Which while not the exact problem I was having (my watch did connect, and sync two days of steps and one night of sleep), it felt close enough to be worth reading.

Steps 3 and 4 in the article gave the key steps to try (though I split step 4 into two parts, and in the middle only restarted my watch, there was no reason to restart my phone)

That article linked to another article on "How Do I Restart My Garmin Device?" which I also found useful: https://support.garmin.com/en-US/?faq=A6gOR1U2zDAFqmJVdap6k6

Hopefully by blogging this, the next person that has a similar problem (my guess is the Garmin Connect Android app works similarly) can more quickly find this solution and key steps by searching the open web.

#Garmin #watch #GarminWatch #sportsWatch #GarminConnect #troubleShooting #GarminTroubleShooting
#Garmin #watch #GarminWatch #sportsWatch #GarminConnect #troubleShooting #GarminTroubleShooting

Link: “We are already living inside the architecture of totalitarianism”

Coachella does a pretty good job with these YouTube livestreams. Watching the replay of Jimmy Eat World now and looking forward to Darkside later. https://coachella.com/youtube-livestream.

Link: Wrapping Up the Explosive, Prescient Show That is The Handmaid's Tale

Not every day of #NomadLifestyle can be this glamorous, but when you DO wake up to this… 😍
#OregonExplored #NikonZfc

“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” –Ernest Hemingway
#NomadLifestyle #Bend #OregonExplored #NikonZfc

While its immediate surroundings are less visually impressive, I’ve long thought it pretty cool that Oregon has its own “Matterhorn”, Mt. Washington.
#OregonExplored

The #Seattle Public Library at Green Lake is not large, but the style both within and without is very cool. Reminds me of the architecture at Dominican College in San Rafael, CA, where my parents both went in the 70s.

There are times you truly know what it means to feel alive. This was a morning sunrise I’ll never forget.
Mt. Hood near Sandy, OR
#OregonExplored #NomadLifestyle #NikonZfc

A simple walk on a grey day.
#WashingtonExplored #NikonZfc

When you’re in #Seattle and all you have to work with is a wideangle prime lens, it’s cloudy/hazy, and it’s the middle of the day…well, ya gotta get creative. ☺️

Personally, I like how this turned out!
#NikonZfc

Rings of a fallen tree 🪵

Squak Mountain State Park
#WashingtonExplored #NikonZfc

This is a mood. 😌🌲
at Squak Mountain State Park
#WashingtonExplored #NikonZfc

Link: Whoa! First Look at Segway F3, Seems Like a Hit

I’m happy to announce that something I and others have worked on very hard for the past few years has been published by the W3C Advisory Board (AB) and sent to the W3C Advisory Committee (AC) for a vote to make it official:

Vision for W3C: https://www.w3.org/TR/2025/NOTE-w3c-vision-20250402/

Official announcement: https://www.w3.org/news/2025/proposal-to-endorse-vision-for-w3c-as-a-w3c-statement/

If your company is a W3C Member¹, please ask your Advisory Committee Representative² to vote to support publication of the Vision for W3C as an official W3C Statement:

https://www.w3.org/wbs/33280/Vision2025/ (W3C Member-only link)

Thank you for your support.

#W3CVision #Vision #VisionForW3C #W3C (@w3c@w3c.social) #W3CAB (@ab@w3c.social)

¹ https://www.w3.org/membership/list/
² https://www.w3.org/Member/ACList (W3C Member-only link)
#W3CVision #Vision #VisionForW3C #W3C #W3CAB

A.I. Age (Set to the Tune of T.V. Age)

Survival is an act of defiance

#trans #transgender #LGBTQIA #survival
I'm going!

Couldn’t stay for the whole thing, but enjoyed sitting in on my first Front End Study Hall (FrESH). Kudos to Joe for building such a great event! Looking forward to joining again.

#IndieWeb #event #virtual