In the latest revision to the forecast there are less hours of sunshine, more hours of just sunny spells, and even an hour of dark cloud possible. It is going to be nice hot today, 28° C, but I suspect it might be rather humid. The weather for the coming week seems very variable. It will start getting cooler after Wednesday, and the cooling may be helped by maybe 3 days featuring thunderstorms. Tomorrow may only feature sunny spells instead of sunshine, and be cooler at just 24° C.
   I finally pulled my finger out yesterday morning, and repaired the leaking joint where the bath waste pipe joins the main soil stack. The rubber grommet I found was probably the wrong size, but it helped - I hope. The block of wood that the pipe clip was screwed to, midway along the 4ft of pipe, was really rotten, but I managed to screw in two screws to attach my home made pipe clip. They are a bit precarious, but should hold. In theory, now the pipe is supported it won't bend when carrying water, and that will help stop the end pulling away from the soil stack again. I haven't checked this morning, but everything was dry last night.

  The only other thing of note for yesterday was some boozing in the afternoon with Jodie and, a bit later, Mark. Mark had come to pick up Jodie as a taxi service to visit her dad, amongst other destinations. They left quite early, and cut the boozing time down to almost half (maybe three quarters). That was fine by me because I was feeling a bit tired for some reason.

  Earlier in the afternoon, before the boozing started, I had a light lunch of rice crackers and cheese. For dinner I had a corned beef salad. For some reason that failed to satisfy, and I had more rice crackers and cheese. For some strange reason that second course seemed to leave me a little bit bloated. Maybe bloated is not quite the right description because it ended up feeling a bit more like acid indigestion. I had to take a couple of antacid pills before going to bed to settle it all down.

  Some of it may have been the heat, and some of it may have been the booze and/or food, but I felt very weary last night. I couldn't find the concentration to watch anything on TV, but then again I don't think there was anything on that would grab my attention even if I wasn't feeling so tired. Once again I was on my bed (it's been too warm to be in it for ages now) quite early - certainly well before sunset.

  It seemed like I slept well, but I do recall dreaming a lot, and it was usually the same dream. The dream was inspired by the book I am currently reading, but that only gave inspiration, and not a conclusion. It is all really vague now, but I think that my almost duplicate dreams were my brain suffering from writers block, and not being able to continue the story. It would keep coming back to the background to a/the story, but couldn't continue.

  I first woke up properly at 5am, but that seemed too early. I guess I must have needed another hours sleep, despite apparently getting plenty of hours sleep before then because it wasn't long before I seemed to fall into a deep sleep again for another hour. It was actually a little after 6am, maybe 6.20am when I finally decided to start the business of the day. As usual, one of the first things I did was to check my blood glucose.

  I knew it would have gone up, but it was a pleasant surprise to see how little it had gone up. It was 7.7mmol/l - very slightly higher than my personal target of 7.5mmol/l. One of the reasons I expected it to be higher was because I drank mos of a bottle of Jamaican Dragon Stout. It listed sugar and glucose in it's ingredient, and it did taste quite sweet. I also have some suspicion about the rice crackers I ate yesterday. Last month I seemed to be getting high glucose readings when I was eating them quite frequently, but now they seem mostly innocent.

  Today could be a sort of busy day. I have already showered and been shopping in Aldi. Now the leak has (hopefully) been sealed on that bath waste pipe, I have some laundry to catch up on. It is possible I might do two lots today. I have lots of computer based things to do today. For a start there are all the pictures of the gig I took on Saturday to go through, but I have a load of CDs to rip to mp3 files, and also I want to make some better backups of a load of archive radio programmes that are currently only on a set of DVD data disks. It doesn't seem like I'll be getting any walking exercise today !