The forecast has been revised since taking the screenshot above. It now acknowledges the rather long sunny spell that is happening as I write this. It also gives hope that sunny spells may continue until mid afternoon. From 4pm the sky may cloud over, and that will be the last we see of the sun. It may only be light cloud, and with luck it will still be fairly bright. The best bit is that the afternoon may reach 15° C. That is not very high, but it might feel OK during one the sunny spells. Tomorrow may start with a bit of rain, but the afternoon should feature sunny spells, and with the possibility of 17° C it could almost feel warm.

  The weight of yesterday's heavy clouds left me feeling quite depressed yesterday. I also seemed to ache a lot. If it was not for the fact that such feeling go back years, I would have said it was a touch of the Covids. If I had been able to describe to a doctor all my aches and pains, which included a mild headache, and a feeling of pressure behind the eyes, ears, and probably behind my hair, that doctor may have diagnosed it as 'flu.....or Covid-19 without the lung problems. All such diagnoses were probably proved wrong when two cans of very strong beer seemed to relieve the worst symptoms (but may have added some new ones.
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    I wish I had another spare can or two of similar beer. Both cans I did have in the fridge, and which I drank late in the afternoon, were from Poland. Their beers are not as sophisticated as some of the strong, very strong, and extremely strong beers from the mad, and madder Belgium brewers, but a few carry quite a kick, and taste very pleasant.  I am unsure why there are two different spellings of the Polish word "Mocna", or sometimes "Mocne", but the word means strong.

  The beer on the left says it was 7.6%, and yet it slips down easier than a beer half it's strength. The beer on the right is deceptive. It says 14.2%, and that seems very exciting, but underneath the 14.2% is the word "extract". I have to confess I don't really know what that means. Around the other side it says 7% with the word "alcohol" under it. This is the strength that we would know it as. It still carries a nice kick, and slips down so easily. I could have, and wanted to, drink another !

  I saved the beers for dinner time and after. Not a great deal happened earlier in the day. I mostly just read and ate. I managed to not snack too much, and only slightly safe stuff when I did, but I did have one of the containers of Chinese takeaway for lunch. I had hoped I might be able to get two more dinners out of the takeaway from the previous night, but it seemed I only managed to make it last two day, and that makes it a rather extravagant purchase.

   My lunch was an egg foo young - or omelette with all sorts of odds and sods in it. It was nice, and even nocer with some white pepper on it. I didn't seem to taste it, but it must have been quite salty because I felt quite thirsty after eating it. The same was true of my dinner. It was special fried rice with a chicken chop suey. It was rather filling, and once again probably quite salty. That is the reason why I could easily have drunk a third can of beer (and probably a fourth !).

  Aside from reading, and I did a lot of that, the only other thing I did was more picture editing. I didn't find the latter that enjoyable. Before I had enough beer to ruin my concentration, and maybe effect my eyesight, I had to cope with a mild, but annoying headache, and my eyes did feel sort of funny. Under some lighting conditions, and some weather conditions, and some mystery other thing, I probably should use glasses when looking at the screen for a long time. The difficulty is that the other 99% of the time I don't need glasses !

  I could have pushed myself to continue photo editing pictures late into the evening, and if I had taken sufficent screen breaks I would have been OK. I sort of did take screen breaks, or break singular. It was probably about 7.30pm, and I took a break to read some more of the book I was reading. By that time it was dark outside, and it felt like the day was over. After half an hour I went to brush my teeth, and from then on I could read until I felt it was time for sleep. One of the great things about being retired, and one of the facts of having no dependencies, partner, or similar, is that the time is really my own. If I could keep my eyes open I could read until the end of the book.

  That is what I did. I finished yet another book. At that point it was probably no later than 9pm, and so I started another book. My intention was just to read a few pages, but I think I read two chapters before I put the book down. I have to admit that while distracted from real life I felt really quite good. As soon as I turned the light out, and tried to get comfortable in bed the world came crashing back into existence !

  It wasn't quite as bad as that sounds. I probably never did find the ultimate comfortable position, but I found a fair imitation of it, and ended up sleeping quite well. My main complaint was waking up at 7am, while it was still dark, and knowing that I probably would never get back to sleep again, and yet I seemed to feel really tired. In other respects I didn't feel too bad. I suspect the atmospheric pressure has changed to better suit my body. A bit later when the sun came out afer sunrise, it seemed to confirm that hypothesis. That is not to say I feel wonderful ! It is just a big improvement over yesterday.

  This morning my blood glucose is back high again, and I can think of several reasons for that. I think I can do something about it today to get it a fair bit lower tomorrow. I don't know what my weight is this morning because I have yet to go to the toilet, and I have eaten and drunk some stuff now. I plan to weigh myself later after I've been for a walk. It has gone very gloomy again, but I have to put my faith in the weather forecast. It has recently been revised again, and it still says sunny periods up to mid afternoon.  If I time it right there will be a sunny period once I am ready to go out, and that will act as a sort of lure. Without it I am liable to stay in feeling miserable about it !