The latest revision to the forecast just shows grey cloud from dawn to dusk, but I think it was fairly bright earlier this morning - at least for short time it seemed to be bright enough to give the impression of some hazy sunshine lighting up the still drawn curtains. Today will be warmer less cool than yesterday. This morning started around 11° C, and the afternoon high will be 14° C, but in the latest revision to the forecast it will now only be 14° C for one hour, and 12° C to 13°C will be more typical. There is no specific time for any rain, but there is still a 10% chance of rain at any time today. Tomorrow will start almost as warm as this afternoon, and still very overcast. By mid morning the sun may start to break through the clouds, and later in the afternoon there could be several hours of non stop sunshine. The temperature may rise to a more comfortable 18° C in the late afternoon.

   I was still thinking about going for a walk yesterday, but time seemed to slip by without me noticing it, and in the end I decided it was too late to go for a walk. I am not sure why I set an arbitrary deadline for abandoning going for a walk. There is no real reason why I couldn't go out at 3 or even 4pm, but somehow I just seem to think it is best to get going in the morning, although occasionally I got out as late as 1pm. Maybe it is just a fact that if I don't get out early enough I get distracted by other things, and that was probably what happened yesterday.

  I only did one thing that is simple to explain. It was to hand wash a few items of clothing. I dried it indoors with the help of the heater on low for a few hours. That heater, and others, are starting to get more and more use since summer abandoned us, and dumped us into the middle of autumn with no time to acclimatise. This morning I even put the heater in my bedroom on full blast for a while.

  Most of my day, or almost all afternoon, and much of the evening, was spent playing with an old PC. I was going to scrap it until I realised that it had a reasonably fast processor in it (and I hope I can upgrade it to an even faster processor), and it has 1GB of memory. It is quite enough to run a still supported version of Linux Mint, although it will never win any awards. I must admit I have no real use for it, but it might be useful as a spare.

  What consumed a lot of time was trying several different Linux versions to find one that suited it best. By early evening it seemed to be Linux Mint Debian Edition version 4, and I tried to install that. It appeared to install OK, but the menu only popped up gibberish. If I could get an application to run it was perfectly readable, but the screen was slightly overscanned, and the edges of the windows were off the screen.

  I was playing around with this all evening, and while waiting for stuff to happen I took to drinking. I had little tots of whisky, tasters of bourbons, snifters of gin, and a something or another of dark rum. When I headed for bed I could hardly stand upright. The odd thing is that I seemed to be thinking clearly enough to plan each step of what I was doing on the PC.

  One additional reason why I got so drunk, as if the quantity of booze wasn't sufficient, was that I didn't eat that much yesterday, or almost nothing that was very substantial. I had a few bowls of instant soup or instant noodles through the day. I had an early dinner at about 5pm. It was an experiment that failed. I wondered what would happen if I tried to cook a steak and kidney pie in the microwave. It meant taking the pastry off, and setting it aside, and then putting it back on the filling after it had been transferred from the tin into a microwave safe dish.

  It was a failure in so much as the pastry didn't rise. I knew it would not get a golden crust, but I did think it would still puff up. It did in a very, very limited way, and that sort of proved that it should have been possible - somehow. The only good thing is that it still tasted OK even if the texture was a bit weird.  I think I had some rice crackers afterwards for a bit of crunch. I probably got through quite a few rice crackers during the day, and usually without any cheese.

  As I said earlier, I was very wobbly when I went up to bed. I think I probably fell asleep very quickly. Maybe 2 hours later I woke up needing a pee. I reckon I had also been snoring because my mouth, and throat was bone dry. I was coughing like I had Covid-19, but fortunately a swig of water calmed everything down. I did help with getting to the toilet though. I started off as if everything was still normal, but I was still very drunk, and I had to be very careful how I walked because I was close to falling down.

  I don't really know what time I had gone to sleep. I am guessing it was around 10pm, but it could easily have been later. What I do know is that I was almost ready to get up at 5am.  Fortunately I managed to get back to sleep again because I had a painful hangover. This morning was one of those fairly rare mornings when I kept trying really hard to fall asleep again every time I woke up. I think I was probably awake for half an hour at the end before giving up, and getting up.

  There was some good news this morning. My blood glucose was down to a very nice 7.3mmol/l - just under what my previous monthly averages have been (bit not this month). Even my weight seems to falling again after an annoying little peak. Unfortunately I do not feel good this morning. Much of it is the remnants of my hangover, but I am never at my best on cold, overcast days.

  Yesterday I was thinking I would really have to push myself to go for a walk today, but today I am thinking "so what, who cares"...or something like that. I think that in reality I will catch up with a bit of reading, and I will and try and complete the Linux installation on that spare PC. To that end I have already made a start on trying Linux Mint 19.2 Xfce on it. It ran up in live mode just fine, but seems to be having difficulty doing the installation. I hope it is a fault on the installer not showing a progress screen while it is still working in the background. Just checked, it wasn't. Oh well, I'll be trying something different today then.