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A friend in our WhatsApp group shared a (UK) private number plate for sale - "303 E" - which kicked off a bit of banter. We are IT guys with an interest in music too. The Roland 303 is a famous synth. I typed out two messages: "404 is my favourite hotel room number" and "No one can find me". Sent at 15:06.

Forty-odd minutes later I'm on the school run, completely mundane, not thinking about any of it. And a stranger walks right past me wearing a hoodie with ERROR 404 - HUMAN NOT FOUND printed large across the back.

The timing is what gets me. Not a vague thematic connection - the exact number, the exact phrase, manifesting as a physical object on a random person's back within the hour. I hadn't seen that hoodie before. I don't know that person. I don't usually stand in that position waiting for my son. I'm usually inside the car.

I think Morpheus talks to me from time to time. But I don't think I'm willing to take the Red pill. I'll have a bluer one though! 😂

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Just signed up for Proton Duo. Ditching MS cloud. Not off to a good start unfortunately. Looks like my drive setup is not supported by the Proton Drive client on Windows 11.

I have C: and D: drives (D: appears as U:). C is not encrypted, D: (U:) is. My Documents, Downloads, Music and Pictures folders are on this partition. It is the same internal SSD as where the C drive lives.

Please tell me there is a work around for this! If not, I will be asking for a refund.

Can't believe this...

20 years contracting. 3 companies. 3 accountants and not one of them advised me that my arbitrary dividend taking where most years I take nothing but the wife takes between 10 and 20k is actually wrong!

Apparently, because we have ordinary shares and are 50/50 in the company, I MUST take the same dividend as her.

Anyone find themselves in the same situation in the past? I don't know how to face this.

*Nocturnal Hypoglycemia is the official condition

For five years I've followed the same pattern most nights. I fall asleep around 10pm, sleep more or less perfectly until about 2am, then spend the next three hours waking up at 02:00, 03:00, 04:00, 04:30, 04:45, 05:00, 05:15, 05:30. It was never your traditional insomnia. I wanted to sleep. I felt tired and exhausted so I usually crash back to sleep immediately each awakening but it barely lasts. Every single awakening came with a raised heart rate, like I'd been running. I had absolutely no idea why. Home sleep study came back clear. No apnea. I tried CPAP anyway for 3 nights. Nothing changed. Upon rising I felt screwed with mental and body fatigue right through until around 2pm most days, constantly craving sugar. I've added 5kg in 5 years whilst otherwise maintaining the same weight for nearly 20 years.

On a whim I started wearing a continuous glucose monitor - a Lingo one, about £50. Best money I've ever spent. What I found was the same pattern repeating every night. From 10pm to about 1:30am my glucose is perfectly stable. Then it starts sliding. By 3am I'm hitting up to 4 hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) events per night, and on one night last week I spent 3 solid hours below the sensor floor of 3.1 mmol/L (54 mg/dL). From what I've read, that is genuinely dangerous territory. And it was happening while I was asleep, completely unaware.

What I've learned is that when glucose drops that low during sleep, the body triggers an emergency survival response. Adrenaline and cortisol flood in to force the liver to inject glucose back into the blood. That hormonal surge is what was waking me up. I wasn't feeling "low" - I was feeling that racing heart, that jolt, that sudden wide-awake-at-3am-for-no-reason sensation. Then my glucose would drop again. And the alarm would go off again. My body was running its own emergency response repeatedly through the most important hours of sleep, and I was waking up each morning wondering why I felt like I hadn't slept at all despite lying in bed 8-9 hours with my eyes mostly closed.

The last 2 nights in a row now, I have been eating a bowl of porridge with peanut butter before bed - slow release carbs and fat to hold the glucose floor overnight. I hate eating late because I get indigestion. For me eating beyond 7pm has been a sin for the last decade. I accepted that bit of discomfort. The first night I ate at 2130 and the second night 2030. Two consecutive nights now my CGM revealed zero time below 3.9 mmol/L. The floor held. The fragmentation stopped!

I've written to my GP with the full CGM data and asked for an endocrinology referral to understand why my body depletes overnight like this - the snack fixes the symptom but not the cause obviously. If any of this sounds familiar - the early hours jolting awake, the racing heart, the sugar cravings all day, the fatigue that doesn't lift until afternoon - please get a CGM and look at what your glucose is doing at 3am.

We are so lucky that blood glucose can be measured so easily. By uploading the data (you can export as a CSV data file) to your favorite AI engine and telling it all about your symptoms you might get lucky too. For me, it was the most striking correlation I've ever seen between real data and a symptom.

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Sharing this for those who aren't convinced that sleep apnea is the root cause...

For five years I've followed the same pattern every single night. Fall asleep around 10pm, sleep perfectly until about 2am, then spend the next three hours waking up at 02:00, 03:00, 04:00, 04:30, 04:45, 05:00, 05:15, 05:30 - despite being so exhausted I crash back to sleep immediately each time. Every single waking came with a raised heart rate, like I'd been running. I had absolutely no idea why. Home sleep study came back clear. No apnoea. I tried CPAP anyway. Nothing changed. Just five years of being screwed with mental and body fatigue right through until around 2pm most days, and constantly craving sugar.

On a whim I started wearing a continuous glucose monitor - a Lingo one, about £50. Best money I've ever spent. What I found was the same pattern repeating every night without exception. From 10pm to about 1:30am my glucose is perfectly stable. Then it starts sliding. By 3am I'm hitting up to 4 hypoglycaemia events per night, and on one night last week I spent three solid hours below the sensor floor of 3.1 mmol/L (54 mg/dL). From what I've read, that is genuinely dangerous territory. And it was happening while I was asleep, completely unaware.

Here's what's actually going on. When your blood sugar drops that low during sleep, your brain panics. It can't store glucose - it runs entirely on what's in your bloodstream - so when levels crash it fires off an emergency survival response. Adrenaline and cortisol flood in to force your liver to inject glucose back into the blood. That hormonal surge is what wakes you up. You don't feel "low", you feel that racing heart, that jolt, that sudden wide-awake-at-3am-for-no-reason feeling. Then your glucose drops again. And the alarm goes off again. Your body is running its own emergency response repeatedly through the most important hours of sleep, and you wake up each morning wondering why you feel like you haven't slept at all.

Last night I ate a bowl of porridge with peanut butter before bed - slow release carbs and fat to hold the glucose floor overnight. My glucose never once dropped below 3.9 the entire night. The floor held. Five years. A bowl of porridge. I've written to my GP with the full CGM data and asked for an endocrinology referral to understand why my body depletes overnight like this. But if any of this sounds familiar - the early hours jolting awake, the racing heart, the craving sugar all day, the fatigue that doesn't lift until afternoon - please get a CGM and look at what your glucose is doing at 3am. It might be the one thing nobody thought to check.

The data (I used AI to help me diagnose my issue. All my GPs....completely useless thus far)

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