It was cloudy during the night, and that helped keep the temperature up to a less bone chilling 9° C. It is now bright and sunny, and there should be either sunshine or sunny spells throughout daylight hours. Sadly it seems it won't warm things up much, and the temperature probably won't get any better than 13° C. Tomorrow could be overcast all day, and with rain from mid afternoon. It will also be a few degrees cooler than today.
 
   I don't know if it was some sort of legacy effect of the stomach upset I had the previous day, or whether it was just because it was cold, but I didn't feel good yesterday. It may even have been a flare up of what I believe was a mild attack of Covid-19 in February. (It had all the symptoms except any breathing difficulties, and only lasted for 4 or 5 days). Once a virus is in your system it rarely goes away completely, but the body does learn to keep it under control. Maybe my defences were low yesterday.

  I only had two main symptoms yesterday. One was feeling cold all the time. My clinical thermometer said my body temperature was completely normal (for me, based up reading over the last few months). I guess the clue as to what was making me feel cold was the outdoor thermometer. It was a cold day !!! The aches and pains I felt were probably because of the cold, but not entirely. They did persist even after using the heater on full blast from time to time to warm me right up.

  The cold and the aches conspired to make me feel pissed off, and feeling pissed off probably made the symptoms feel worse than they were. The only time life brightened up was when my 2TB hard disk for me new PC was finally delivered. It was only a momentary thrill, and once I had it in my hand I couldn't raise the enthusiasm to do anything with it, although there was a real reason why I couldn't do anything with it yesterday.

  I did get as far as opening up the new PC, and fitting the small hard drive that will hold the operating system. I can't fit the new 2TB drive, that will hold my personal data until I have copied it all over from my existing PC. That is going to be a slow process (there is over 1.2TB of data to copy)....... I have now actually started the process to copy all that data, and it will probably take all day ! It is currently saying 114 hours to complete ! One good thing about the new PC is that it has high speed, USB3 ports, and that could be 10 times faster, but I can only use that once it is up and running.

   There was one thing I did that was a bit unusual yesterday. To warm myself up I had a couple of pot noodles. Rather than eat them at my computer desk, as I usually would, I ate them at the dining table. It was all part of a bigger plan. I had warmed the dining room up, and I had opened up the new PC to mount the first hard disk in it. I was also listening to some music down there.  While I was set up to do all that I also decided to do some reading while waiting for the doorbell to announce the arrival of my new hard disk.

  I had the perfect book for it. It is great hunk of a book containing Arthur C. Clarke short stories. Although I had tried reading it in bed, and did manage almost half of it, it was ridiculous trying to read such a heavy book in bed. Reading it on the dining room table was a far better idea. I think I read two short stories before I gave up for the time, and my hard drive had still not arrived. I didn't expect it until early evening. I think it was around 6pm when it finally arrived.

  6pm is usually my dinner time, although there has to be some flexibility at time - Sunday sometimes works to a different time scale, but not yesterday. I had a rather nice dinner. It was a bit unusual for a dinner time meal. It was grilled bacon with grilled home grown tomatoes all served on a bed of low sugar/salt baked beans with some melted cheese for extra taste. The cheese, or the choice of the cheese I used was a mistake. I used some of the "posh", "artisan", cheese I had bought on line. The end nearest what was the outside when it was a big round wheel of cheese, has lots of blue veins in it. That gives the flavour some extra character, but that character rarely fits in with anything but plain(ish) biscuits/crackers. The mouldy flavour rather spoiled my dinner.

Update of the disk copying: After settling down the transfer speed has gone up, and the estimated time to completion is a more sensible 17 hours now.

  My aches and pains, and fighting the cold, left me feeling very tired yesterday evening. I wasn't sure it was a wise decision, but I decided not to rush to bed, and to make sure I was feeling very tired before going to bed. Even then I read in bed (not the heavy Arthur C. Clarke book, but a much smaller paperback) for maybe an hour. When I finally put the book down, and turned out the light, I fell asleep very quickly.

  I think my night went by very smoothly. I know I got up for a pee several times, but fell asleep again almost instantly. It wasn't until the morning that my sleep became a little patchy. It was then that I had a dream that I added to while half awake because it was such a wacky idea that it needed honing. I must admit, that for all my effort to improve upon the dream, and remember it, a lot seems to have evaporated.

  The dream, and later embellishments, was about a soup that became self aware ! I guess it was based upon the idea of a primordial soup from which all life sprang, but I think my soup was probably mulligatawny because it had rice in it. I really wish I could remember more details because it seemed so funny at the time. The punchline, possibly from within the dream, but also possibly from thinking about the dream when first waking up, was "never turn your back to the soup because it is out to get you". If I recall correctly it was the rice that would turn in the broth to watch you pass by (that is how I knew it to have rice in it, and from that came the idea of it being mulligatawny.

  This morning I can't say I feel great, but I definitely feel a lot better than yesterday morning. It's probably best not to mention my weight, but my blood glucose has dropped to 9.0 from 9.6mmol/l the day before. That is still high, and best explained by some chocolate biscuits I ate yesterday. Maybe dropping to just 9.0mmol/l is a good thing, and it is, but it is still high enough that I still need to be very careful, evidently more careful than yesterday, about what I eat today.

  I must admit that the sunshine still pouring through my bedroom window is tempting me to go out for some sort of walk today. I am not sure if I will or won't at the moment. I am making the excuse that I need to monitor the data copying from my existing hard disk to the new hard disk, but really all I can do is let it get on with it. I will be busy enough with it tomorrow when the copy is done, and I can start to bring my new PC to life. I think the best thing I can do today is to make it up as I go along.