I'm trying to think if I did anything of note yesterday, apart from going to Aldi in the morning.  I think the answer is mostly no, but somehow I don't seem to recall feeling bored...or not that much. One nthing I did do I must have done on autopilot, and that was to be very careful about what I ate. That was partly aided by not buying anything from Aldi that I know to be bad for me.

  One task I did doesn't feel like it provided much distraction from the world, but it probably did. It was to check the memory cards from the two trail cameras I have pointing at my bird table...although at this point I am wondering if I did check both of them. I can't recall any pictures from the first trail camera I put out. The second didn't capture much that was exciting, but I liked this picture.
  Until I replaced the simple hooks that support the hanging feeders the crows quickly learned that they could unhook the feeders, let them drop to the ground, and then fly down to eat any spillage. Originally I just hung the feeders from long screws. You can still see one on the right of the bird table. I replaced them with rings, and used dog clips to hang the feeders. The crows can now no longer unhook them. In this picture it almost looks like they are cross because their trick has been thwarted.

  In between reading, and the occasional short snooze, I did more CD ripping using my new laptop. Some of the CDs I have ripped before, but often at a lower bit rate, and hence lower quality. It wasn't how I started, but I think it now my intention to rip all of my CDs, and not just some of the slightly more obscure ones on the shelf (or one of several shelves). I could, and might, box at least some of the less liked (or hated) CDs, and hide them away to leave more room on the shelves for books. If I ever get an actual CD player again I could get the CDs out, but playing them, as mp3 files, on my computer is far more convenient.

  I don't think I mentioned it yesterday, but I did have a breakfast yesterday morning. It was some cod in breadcrumbs I had bought from Aldi - mostly because it was near it's sell by date, and 30% off. It made for a nice breakfast - filling, but not bloating. I think it was what made me eat very little (but by no means nothing) until dinner time. I had a very specific dinner in mind. It was grilled salmon on a thick bed of rocket and other salad leaves with some tomatoes.

  One thing I meant to do before eating dinner was to check my blood glucose. I had a feeling it would have dropped a fair bit from the 9.5mmol/l I measure in the morning. Unfortunately I forgot to check it before dinner, but I did it straight afterwards. That is not a good time to take it because I could have been measuring a quick spike from any sugar in my dinner. There could have also been, and I am sure there was, an effect that isn't supposed to exist. That being a dip in the blood glucose as digestion starts to take place. That is the only explanation of why the measurement was a very nice 6.4mmol/l. I was sure it was a fluke, but I still rewarded myself with a tub of low(er) calorie ice cream.

  Despite it being a grey day, it was very mild yesterday, and that extended into the evening. I didn't need to put on any heating during the evening, and into the night. I felt perfectly comfortable when I went to sleep without even the empty duvet cover on me. Of course it didn't last, and sometime around 2am I pulled the duvet cover over me. I think it was a little after 4am when I decided to turn the heater on low, but that was mainly to get my bedroom comfortable when getting up.

  I don't remember much about my sleep. I know I got up 3 or 4 times to pee, but only by rather hazy memories. I know I had a selection of dreams, but I can't remember anything about them except for one, and then only the last few seconds of the dream. Those few seconds concerned being in a hotel, or something like that, and I wanted to go to the toilet. I looked into one toilet and there was no toilet paper in it. I checked the toilet next door to it, and once again I thought there was no toilet paper until I noticed a new roll tucked under the hand washbasin. As I bent over to pick it up I felt a nasty pain in my leg.

  I woke up at that point to find my right leg was cramping painfully. I haven't had cramp like that in ages. I don't think anyone knows what really causes cramp. Sometimes too much, or too little salt is suggested as a possibility. I feel sure that what I ate yesterday was no different to any other day with regard to salt consumption. One other oddity was that I found my muscles in my left forearm seemed to be cramping as well. It was mild compared to leg cramps, and the pain was almost completely over before I could really realise it for what it probably was.

  I really enjoyed the ice cream I had for dessert last night, but it left it's mark. My blood glucose was down to 9.1mmol/l this morning. At least it is heading in the right direction still, but it is still far too high. My guess is could have been under 9, and maybe even 8.5mmol/l if I hadn't enjoyed that ice cream last night. I didn't notice it so much when I first got up, but while washing my hair, and having a shower, I felt quite stiff and creaky. If I go out today I feel it would be good to take a couple of Paracetamol beforehand.

  I doubt I will go out today. For one thing I am expecting a delivery of yet more beer. It is from The Bier Company, the same company who made me (and apparently many others) wait for ages for ages before they finally dispatched my beers. I really shouldn't have given them my custom again, but I did. This time they did send an email where they blamed Yodel for not sending a big enough van last Friday, and said the beers would be picked up the next day - they weren't, but they were picked up last night, and Yodel have just messaged me to say they are one their way. Their tracking web site says I am drop number 17, and so they could be here in an hour or two.