Most of today could be dry, but the latest revision to the forecast predicts showers from 9pm tonight. Even if most of the day will be dry (once yesterday's dampness dries off - if it ever does), today will still be very gloomy, and while today's high of 17° C would seem like luxury a month or two ago, it is going to feel cold on a day like today. Tomorrow may see 19° C, and the sky may be a little lighter now and then, compared with today, but it still feels like it will be a rotten day. It won't be helped by what would seem to be random showers through the day. I have a suspicion it will be another day when the forecast changes quite a lot every revision through the day.

   Yesterday I wrote that the dull weather the previous day was not very inspiring. Yesterday it went beyond not inspiring to something like crushing depression. I felt cold and miserable through much of the day, and I just couldn't be bothered to do much except for reading. I probably should have stopped fighting it and turned the heater on, but thought I would try and tough it out. The one and only thing of note that I did was to finally go through the photos I took last Saturday at The Coxymorons gig, and select the best, and then a few of the best to show here.
  One problem I had yesterday was too much light in the wrong places. It was a very bright sunny day, but the band were shaded from the sun by the roof of The Ark - it's like a bus shelter that isn't a bus shelter made from mostly scrap wood. My first photos looked very under exposed, except for the background, and I really had to force the pictures to get the band looking bright. Then I had to use some smoothing to mask the grain that was exposed by that extra brightening.
  Sometimes the easiest to photograph was Steve the bass player. He was at the end of the shelter, and more light was hitting him from the side. The only trouble is that he is less photogenic than, for instance, Abby.
  Later in the gig I turned up the exposure on my camera, but by then it felt like I had taken all possible pictures of 4 almost static people - Perhaps that should be just 3 people - Abby, the singer, did show some movement and emotion while singing. In the end I ended up taking close ups of guitars for something to photograph - guitar porn !
  The only variation of a lot of the same was when they called a guest singer up to the microphone. The silly this I can't remember her name, but I think she worked, and maybe owned the shop where they band borrowed their electric power from. She was a bit nervous at first, but once she got going she seemed mostly OK.

  If I did one other thing yesterday it was to feel cold, miserable and hungry. It was barely after 11am when I opened a can of soup to try and satisfy my need for warm food, and it did work for a while. As 1pm approached I looked for more hot food. I decided to throw caution to the wind and made myself two bowls of instant noodles. I have been trying to avoid noodles for some time because of the effect they can have on my blood glucose.

  Eventually it was dinner time, and I looked around for something to eat. I saw no pleasure in a salad, and wanted something better. That was a shame because I do have a lot of greenstuff in my fridge that ain't gonna last forever. I guess I could have, and maybe should have, added some rocket, or spinach, or both to the plate of fish fingers I cooked for myself. I didn't really enjoy those fish finger in the way that I thought I would.

  What was worse was that they seemed to be sitting on the instant noodles like a big lump. I felt uncomfortable, and at one point, when swallowing some fizzy drink, I had some nasty acid reflux. It seemed bad enough that I took a couple of antacid tablets before doing anything else. In this case "anything else" was just watching the end of Space:1999, and an episode of Star Trek: Voyager.

  When Voyage finished it was nice to lay down in bed. I brushed my teeth before relaxing, but I didn't intend to go to sleep for an hour or two. I just wanted to get lost in the next Ben Bova book I am reading, "The Leviathans Of Jupiter".  One little thing I did do as bed time started to approach was to get a fresh duvet cover to put on my bed. I knew that a full duvet would probably be too warm, but that duvet cover worked well to keep me warm while reading, and through the night.

  I don't really know what time I put the book down and went to sleep, but I would guess it would have been close to 10pm. I seemed to sleep quite well, and as far as I remember, it was dreamless sleep until the last few hours of the night. (It probably wasn't, but I have no recollections of any dreams earlier). One dream was almost about flying, but I never made it into the air. I think there was more to the dream than the snatch I can remember.

  I was visiting friends, or maybe just a single friend, who lived at the bottom of a steep hill. I think it was probably inspired by Hilly Fields, but the bit of the hill in the dream was higher, and steeper, but it was grassed over like a park. I had an idea that if I could make and wear a suitable wing I could glide from half way down the hill, where the slope got very steep, right into the friends front garden. The last thing I can remember in this dream was looking through a box of old trouser belts to see if I could fashion a harness for the wing from the leather belts.

  The other dream I had was yet another one where I was back at work. This time it was set in the telephone exchange I used to work in during the late 1970s. early 1980s. It was strange how it was both modernised, and yet still the same. I had no idea how the modern stuff worked, and didn't know how to work on it, but I seemed happy dawdling around doing the occasional little job.

  This morning I don't feel that great. While I seemed to sleep OK. I don't feel refreshed this morning, and while I have passed a fair amount of wind, I still feel bloated. I have a feeling that sooner or later something is going to give in a big way ! The most surprising thing this morning is my blood glucose. After eating two packets of instant noodles, and there may have been a few snacks that weren't a good idea, I expected my blood glucose to be sky high. It isn't !! In fact it is slightly lower than the morning before. At 8.7mmol/l it is still a bit high, but lower than the 8.9mmol/l yesterday morning. At least today starts with that bit of good news.

  Today may be dry, but it is still damp. It is still a bit gloomy, and it is still not very warm. Just before I started writing I turned the heater on low, and that makes it a bit more comfortable. I have also out on long trousers. I really don't fancy doing much today. The idea of going for walk doesn't appeal at all, but I am considering the possibility of going to get a bit of shopping. Once again I don't fancy salad. I feel like more hearty food today. I don't know what that might be yet, but a meander round one of the supermarkets could yield some temptations.