Why did I have a timer pre-dating Typica? Well, back in the days when I was doing all my logging manually, the timer that I started with broke and no local stores sold anything even remotely usable as a replacement so after wasting a day driving around trying to find something usable I spent an evening just hacking something together (which I did not release because there were already so many timer apps that it's faster to write your own than it is to find one that you like)