The latest revision to the forecast doesn't admit that it is sunny now, or at least it is sunny on the other side of the house that the sun is yet to rise above. That later revision also says that the last sunny spells will happen at 10am, and from then on it will be cloudy. It may even rain from 5pm, but it is only a 40% chance of light rain, and just 30% for 6 and 7pm. Unfortunately it will only reach 9° C today. Tonight will not be as cold as last night, and tomorrow may be a degree or two warmer.
 
  Yesterday I felt a lot better than I did the day before. I still didn't feel perfect though, but a couple of Paracetamols calmed all the aches and pains down. My chest still felt a little clicky though, and I did my best not to make it worse. That meant I declined to go out into the sunshine, and stayed in all day keeping warm. It could have been a boring day, but it wasn't, although a lot of the stuff I did had no end product.

  I'm not sure when it was, but sometime, possibly late in the morning, I got the urge to see how my spreadsheet worked if opened on a Windows PC. I could have used my old laptop, or even my previous PC. Both are dual boot, and I can choose Windows or Linux at boot time. The only problem with those is that they are downstairs, and it was too cold to work down there without increasing my heating bill. What I do have is a virtual Windows XP machine on my main PC.

  That virtual machine has an old version of Open Office on it, and it seems that handles hyperlinks to my pictures differently to later versions. In that old version they seem to work as web pages, but are still opened using a picture viewer. That was how I was trying to do it until I found that method didn't work in the latest version of Libre Office. What I really wanted to do was to to try the spreadsheet in Microsoft Office, Excell.

  I started hunting for my old copies of Microsoft Office. The first I found was Office 97, and I installed that. It is still great for writing stuff, but the Excell doesn't work the same, and I had to give up on that. I then found a CD with Office 2007 on it, but that CD seems have started to deteriorate, and some files have just disappeared. Finally I found a genuine copy of Office XP. That installed OK, but without registering it I can only use it 50 times unless I can be bothered to look for, and find some sort of crack for it. I won't because it can't open ods (open document spreadsheet) files.

  What I really need to find is my copy of Office 2003, and the service pack that added support for open document files. I guess I have just hidden it away too well, because I can't seem to find it anywhere. For the last half hour or more I have had another search for Office 2003. I checked a few more cases of CD/DVD disks, and still haven't found it...however one disk I checked was corrupt, and has somehow made my drive go offline in a way I don't understand. From that point I couldn't read several disks, including one that was a proper pressed CD, instead of a writeable CD. Maybe one of those last disks had what I wanted on it.

  One thing I wanted to do yesterday was to eat a bit more sensibly, and I mostly succeeded. What I thought was important was to keep off the chilli sauce, and I didn't touch a drop of it. My breakfast was fish, and that is usually safe in all respects. I couldn't resist some lunch, and I had it as two sets of snacks. They were oatcakes with cheese and tomato. They seemed so nice that after eating 4 of them, I had another 4. I say they were really nice, but that was only in a relative way to eating nothing. In reality those oatcakes are really rough, and their oatey taste overpowers even the cheese.

  I was going to have a fish pie for dinner until I realised it had to be cooked in the oven. I had already started cooking some bacon in the oven, and so I decided I would have soup instead. The bacon would be better after pea and ham soup. I am not sure why I though it would ever go after fish pie - even when cooked enough to be almost crispy.  I actually had two cans of soup. The first was a chunky chicken and vegetable soup.

  One other thing I did yesterday was to start reading "Mostly Harmless", the fifth book in the Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy trilogy by Douglas Adams. I went to bed early last night, and then spent over an hour reading more. I seem to be halfway through the book now. It was probably something like 10 or even 10.30pm before I turned out the light and soon fell asleep.

  Some of the time I slept quite well. There was one time when I turned over a bit too hard, and I felt my chest go pop. I had to have a bit of a wriggle to unpop it, and to stop the sharp pain the pop had caused. Other than that I was comfortable, and I didn't seem to have any special aches or pains this morning - just the usual ones !  As seems usual, and maybe even normal, I was sleeping lightly enough to have several dreams in the last few hours of sleep, and I remember a few bits of those dreams.

  One dream was curious. I can't remember how it started, and how it ended, and that makes it all the more mysterious. It concerned an unknown person who had built an extremely compact high power radio transmitter. It used a pair of valves that ran off a couple of thousand volts. When he switched it on there was a lot of spectacular arcing, and after one more big arc it came on properly, and produced several hundred watts of radio frequency power.  I can't remember if it was in the dream, or while awake for a few minutes after the dream, that I likened it to starting up a diesel engine - lots of little coughs, and then an almighty roar with a plume of black smoke followed by a steady rhythm as it was ready to work.

  I was hoping my blood glucose would have dropped a bit after yesterday's slightly high reading. It was hoping for more, but 8.5mmol/l wasn't bad, and at least it was in the right direction. I have a feeling that the magic which kept my readings down until recently might be over now, and I will have to go back to being very careful. Oh well, it was nice while it lasted.

  The main thing on the agenda today is a walk through the park, and hopefully a drink with Angela at lunch time. The only fly in the ointment is that I could be getting a delivery today. It is a single book that is being delivered by Whistl. I think they hand their stuff over to the Postman for the "last mile", and my post usually gets here by midday. That will give me plenty of time for a quiet stroll through the park. Unfortunately there is no tracking information to give a better idea where the book is, and when it might get here. I think today is possibly just a blind guess by Amazon.