The latest revision to the forecast says correctly that it is now overcast (which is the grey cloud icons in the forecast). The next hour may just be cloudy (which is still overcast in my book). From then on it is predicted to be officially overcast for the rest of the day. The day has started at around 6° C, but it will soon be 7° C, and will stay the same until midnight, and beyond. The latest revision only shows some rain falling at 11pm. The rest of the day should be dry. Tomorrow may see some heavy rain in the small hours. That rain will get lighter and lighter until it dries up around sunrise. The temperature then may be 8° C, and it will rise to around 10° C for the afternoon. Unfortunately that will still feel cold because there may not be even a hint of sunshine tomorrow.

    The more I think about it, the more I am sure I had some sort of bug a few days ago. It would explain why my blood glucose was so high, and why my 3 miles walk was so tiring. There was also the tendency to cough early in the night before last, and also the apparent fever that must have been responsible for soaking my pillow and some of my bed in sweat. In fact that fever, assuming it was a fever - my temperature had dropped to quite low when I checked it some unknown time after I had been sweating while asleep - was probably to kill off that bug.

  Yesterday I felt mostly physically OK, but I did seem to feel tired. Maybe not tired as in needing to sleep a lot, but to just needing rest. Late in the morning I went out to pop a few Xmas cards through a few neighbours letter boxes, and to post more Xmas cards in the post box. It was out for little more than 5 minutes, and yet it felt tiring. It is possible that it was just the grey day drawing all my energy away, and leaving me feel a bit, or a lot, depressed.

  Maybe just writing out Xmas cards wore me out ! I did some other stuff related to Xmas yesterday. I decided to order a Xmas gift for Angela via Amazon. With a total lack of imagination I ordered booze for her. Oh well, it is one thing I am confident she will enjoy. The only problem is that just before I had ordered some booze for myself. For reasons unknown, Amazon seemed to add my booze order to the one for Angela. I quickly backtracked, but I couldn't seem to stop it from happening. Maybe there is a time limit where they assume you are amending your original order.

  There were two things I could do. One was to cancel the entire order, and come back to it much later, or to change the delivery addresses to make sure that my booze is delivered here, and Angela's will be delivered to her home. At this point in time I have no idea if my original order has been amended, or if the final result will be that I have ordered my booze twice. That seems to be the way it is, but I guess I will find out for sure in due course. A double order will hit my credit card a bit hard, but at least the booze won't be wasted !

  I had been intending to be very careful about what I ate yesterday, and on the whole I did manage to eat mostly stuff that should not have affected my blood glucose in a negative way. That went slightly wrong when I woke up from a snooze feeling very cold. I decided that what I needed was hot soup, and a lot of it. I first had a mushroom cuppa soup, and then went for a low fat chicken with noodles soup. I was going to make it double strength when I found there was only one sachet in the box. I ended up making it half soup, and half instant noodles. It wasn't bad, and I think I may do something similar again some day.

  Having got warned up, I turned my attention to the mini PC I want to use as a replacement web sever for these web pages. I must admit that I wasn't terribly enthusiastic about it, and what I really wanted to do was to do nothing, but I gritted my teeth, and made a start. I went back to the original hard disk that I had installed Linux Mint 18.3 on. I couldn't remember what state I had left it is, but I started playing with configuration files. That was a headache, as was trying to fight systemd, the all in one master control that has recently been introduced, and carries loads of criticism.

  I could have tried to fight all these problems until I had mastered it, but I took the cowards way out, and killed Linux Mint 18.3 by installing Linux Mint 17.2 - which came out before systemd was spreading like some sort of alien invasion. Before doing so I made a copy of all the web page files I had copied from my existing server, and copied them to my /home partition, which I did not delete during the installation of Linux Mint 17.2. Once it was safely installed I shut down, and concentrated on dinner.

  My dinner was just as unhealthy as my lunch. It was grilled carrots and shallots, with too many cuts of pork shoulder steaks. It was a meal that was very heavy on animal protein. I was rather nice though ! The port steaks were well trimmed, and so the fat content wasn't too bad. Things will have to change in spring, but I seem to be deep into the rut now that ends with me having a dessert. At least this time it was just two apples.

  After a bit of TV, finishing with an old episode of QI, I went to bed to read before going to sleep. I think I must have been more tired than I thought because I don't remember more than a few seconds passing after I turned out the light and went to sleep. I don't even know quite when that was, but maybe it was around 10pm. I needed to get up to wee a few times in the night, but I must have been sleeping quite deeply because I remember very little about the night. One thing I do know was that I went for a wee at 3am, and it felt like a mere blink of the eye when I next saw that it was 5.30am.

  I could potentially have got up at 5.30am. I seemed to feel I had probably slept enough, but evidently I hadn't because an attempt for just another 5 minutes in bed turned out to be over two more hours of sleep. I could very easily be deluding myself, but somehow I seem to feel better this morning. Whether that is better than expected, or better after being off colour, remains to be seen. I do know that after going downstairs I came back up the stairs with almost a spring in my step.

  One positive thing can be easily measure, and it is my blood glucose level. After the horrendous 9.2mmol/l on Tuesday, and the useful drop yesterday, it was down to a satisfactory 7.7mmol/l this morning. I don't think what I ate yesterday was particularly low in sugars and carbohydrates, and unfortunately it would certainly not have been short of calories. It does suggest that the occasional high readings I've had since the start of the month have been the result of infection. It is probably covid-19 because that is obviously the disease of the moment ! One thing viral diseases have in common is aftershocks, and since getting covid-19 last February (not actually proved, but most of the symptoms were right), I have had these odd little hiccups, and possibly will for months or years to come. Some years ago I believe I had glandular fever, but I never got to see a doctor until I was well enough to go out again, by which time most of symptoms had gone, thus making a proper diagnosis impossible (or at least not simple). Glandular fever is another virus, and I was getting after shocks from that for a year or two.

  Another reason for feeling better today is that it is Thursday - aka beer day. Drinking with just Jodie is not always scintillating, but at least it is a couple of hours of company. I can cope with being on my own for long periods, longer than most because I am so used to it, but it is nice to take a short break now and then. Before Jodie come over I have to put away the computer stuff in the dining room, and tidy the room up. Plus I ought to select a few beers to put in the fridge to cool. I did send pictures of my latest beer delivery to Jodie, and asked if there was any that interested her. I have had no reply, and so I assume that none of them are novel enough to interest her. Oh well, I'll just have to drink hers, and save mine for another day. I am sure that once Michael is well enough to join us again there will be many he might enjoy trying.