Not that much happened after I finished writing the 1,942 words that made up yesterday's description of some of my life. I'm unsure how late it was when I finally finished writing. These ramblings seem to be getting longer and longer, and take stupid amounts of time to write - particularly now I save a copy of the full day rather than just overwrite "today" as I used to. To save today as Monday 27th January 2020, as it's own page, means changing all the links to pictures and stuff so everything (hopefully) displays correctly. Then I have to scrap much of what I have written, and then write a precis of it before copying it to the monthly page. I sometimes wonder if I am doing this right, but sometimes it is amusing to me to look back on the things in years to come.
  One of the things I had time to do after processing all my gig photos, and then writing about my day, was to cook an interesting dinner. The green beans are easily identifiable in the picture on the left, but the meat may be less so. It is an Aldi special - "Bombay lamb chops" - lamb chops marinated in a sort of curry flavoured marinade. It sounds better than it actually was. I will admit those lamb chops were nice, but they were not wonderful, and I doubt I will bother buying any more.

  It almost looks like this could be a healthy meal, and apart from the amount of fat on some of those chops, it could have been. Unfortunately it was not representative of what I ate yesterday. I wanted something I could eat while working at my PC, and bought, and obviously ate, some sandwiches. That bread was not good for my blood glucose level.

  I also had a couple of fishcake for a sort of brunch, and the potato in them was also not good for me blood glucose level. The very worst thing, and I have no idea why I was so stupid to buy them, was some mixed nots and raisins. Raisins are full of sugar, and once I realised what I had done I limited myself to just a big handful of those nuts and raisins. In theory I will make that bag last all week, but I bet I don't.

  All these bad things have left my blood glucose spiking quite high this morning, and I am going to have to be very careful what I eat, and also how much I eat today. One fly in the ointment is that I have another pack of those fishcakes (they had half price stickers on them), and they have to be used today. It is going to make today complicated as I haphazardly plan my meals.

  I had a nice relaxing evening last night. I watched some TV, until I went to bed to do some reading. I thought I had gone to bed fairly early, but I became so engrossed in the book that it was almost 1am when I turned out the light. The book I am currently reading is "A Mon On The Moon" by Andrew Chaikin. It recounts the highlights and achievements of the Apollo moon landings. It features a nice mix of biographic details and technical details wrapped around the sort of reports that appeared in vaious newspapers and on TV. It is probably the more detailed accounts of the moonwalks that are really interesting. I find some bits of it turning up in my dreams.

  I know I had a dream about the lunar landers, and how all their systems might be monitored. The dreams were all fiction, but based on my own ideas inspired by my knowledge of electronics. I'm not sure when I found time to dream because once again I did not seem to sleep well. Since changing my bed linen my pillows seem to be too high. They are the same pillows, but in new pillowcases which are, as far as I can see by eye, the same size as the old. How that can seem to high is a mystery.

  Whether to blame ot on the pillows, or something else is unknown, but what is known is that I keep hearing (or maybe feeling) my ribs and/or sternum going crunch when I tirn over in bed, and it seems I do that enough times during the night to wake up in the morning with my chest aching. A couple of Ibuprofen tablets usually calm it down, but it can still be a bit tender, and easily provoked.

  Aside from my chest, my right shoulder is also giving me a lot of discomfort still. To add to my woes, as  have already mentioned, my blood glucose is too high this morning. It is still comfortably under the danger zone, but it is screwing up my averages badly. Also, just for fun, my weight is still very slowly creeping up. I now have an extra kilogram or two to get rid of before I can hopefully get back on the downward trend I was on before it all went wrong - aminly when the weather turned really crap, and I started to feel cold.

  I have already been out once this morning. There was no need to walk so fast, but I had a very brisk stroll to and from the pharmacy. I was walking a bit faster than was comfortable, but seemed unable to slow down. Anyway, the good news is that dealing directly with the pharmacist, rather than one of his idiot assistants, has sorted out the last of my repeat prescription woes. There correct drugs, at the correct dosage was waiting for me. The pharmacist has also sorted out that the blood glucose test strips are now on my repeat prescription list. He assured me that all the paper work was in order for my next repeat prescription in two months time.
  There are a few things I will definitely do today, but only the future will know to what extent I do them. I am definitely going to walk to the pub where I should be meeting Angela during her lunchbreak. I hope to hear all about her adventures of getting to Romford and back again on Saturday when she went to stay with her daughter Miranda. One current unknown is whether I will walk the long way round, or just do a direct walk to the pub.

  Another unknown is how I end up dealing with my need to very carefully watch my diet today, or indeed if I mamage to control it at all - not so easy after a couple of pints of Guinness on an empty stomach. I have started soaking in detergent the bottom sheet, and pillowcases I took off my bed on Saturday. I don't think I will have time to finish washing them before I go out this morning (actually some time after midday). If I can force myself to finish washing them this afternoon I may be able to distract myself from eating. I might even find the energy to do other housework. The future is, err not that bright, although the sun was almost shining just now, and may do so again, but mostly the future is unknown.