The most recent revision to the forecast shows possible sunny spells for 11am, 2pm and 3pm. No rain is predicted to fall, but over half the day is predicted to have very grey cloud cover, and so it will look like rain about to start even if it doesn't. However there is a 10% chance of rain at almost any time today. It is going to be a bit cooler today with the temperature struggling to reach 14° C for an hour or two. However it is 12° C as I write this, and that ain't too bad. Tomorrow may be mostly extremely dull, and there is a fair chance of some showers. It will be a little cooler than today - possibly only 13° C for a short while.

   Yesterday was almost a productive day if you look at productivity in a twisted way. It was also a day when I really pushed my recent improved tolerance to sugar in my diet. It seems I broke the run of good readings, but about that later. The most important event of the day was a beer delivery. It came at about 3pm, and if I had believed the early weather forecast and gone out, I would have missed the delivery.

  I struck lucky first time when I tried the parcel number into the tracking pages of various couriers. My first check on Hermes web sit struck lucky, but it didn't tell me anything useful. Later in the day Hermes sent me a text message, and an email, that said to expect my delivery between 2 and 4pm. It was a loose, but good prediction because as I said in the previous paragraph, it arrived at 3pm, right in the middle of their estimate.

  When I took the box in one end of it was very wet. I wondered if one bottle had been smashed, or even if a can had been damaged, but in the end I think it was just where it had been sitting in a puddle in the depot or something. It was a good excuse to check the contents of the box though. In theory it is a beer advent calendar, and every day of Advent is supposed to be a surprise, but I will be drinking them with Jodie and Michael, and because I ordered 3 different boxes from different suppliers, and went halves on an expensive one with Jodie, we will be starting earlier than 1st December. Anyway, the beers in the box looked to be mostly good - a few possibly exciting, and a few possibly not to my taste at all.

  I guess receiving a box of beers, and checking it is not exactly productive. The other thing, which took several hours, or when I think about it, a lot of the afternoon, was more destructive in the end than productive. I have no idea what the trigger was that made me pick up again on a job I had ignored for days. It was to continue to investigate one of Jodie's mum's old PCs.

  I did manage to get Linux sort of running on it, but only from a live DVD. I had attempted to install it, but it said it couldn't access the swap partition that I had only made 15 minutes before. That sort of sums up the trouble with that PC. Too many things would only work intermittently. I think the real problem was the power supply failing. It used a small power supply, and it would be expensive to try and buy a replacement, and so I took out potentially useful bits, and junked the rest. It is double wrapped in black bin bag, and is in the bottom of the black wheelie bin. In theory it doesn't belong in there, but until the council off to pay for a taxi to their dump it will have to do.

  During the course of the day I ate lots of bad stuff. That included a big bag of crisps. I just seemed to be feeling hungry yesterday. I ended up having a fairly big dinner of Lincolnshire sausages, baked beans and grilled tomatoes - which I enjoyed a lot. I washed it all down with three bottles of strong English ale. It was two bottles of Theakston's Old Peculiar, and a bottle of Abbot special reserve. While those beers were very nice, they do tend to be very malty, and malt is a sugar. Ideally, like a "Continental lager", the fermention should be allowed to continue until all the sugars have been converted to alcohol by the yeast, but by stopping the fermentation early the beer tastes sweeter.

  An hour or so after eating dinner I checked my blood glucose. It was a very high 14.4mmol/l. That is well into the danger area, but partly to be expected after a big meal and sweet beer. I didn't let it worry me except for a bad feeling about this mornings blood glucose check. Before all that there was sleep to consider. I spent at least 30 minutes in bed reading before I turned out the light. Last night was one of those nights where you think you are never going to get to sleep, and then 30 seconds later you are asleep.

  I think I probably slept quite well last night. I didn't seem to wake up much in the night, and when I did I seemed to get back to sleep within something like 10 minutes. I did seem to dream a lot. Some of those dreams were about my old, and sadly broken mini laptop (with 7" screen). That laptop was quite handy on occasions. I even took it to Rye once to write about my experience there in real time. That laptop had a built in web cam, and my dreams seemed to be about using that webcam for something or another.  I can't really remember any coherent details about it all now.

  I was not surprised to see my blood glucose was up to 9.1mmol/l this morning. Maybe I was very slightly surprised that it wasn't higher. It is closer to my typical average than it is to the danger zone starting at 10mmol/l. I still think I ought to take extra care to get it back down closer to 8.0, or even in the 7s, by tomorrow morning. This morning I am going to skip breakfast, but I will have some lunch. The only trouble is what I will have for lunch. I ought to finish of the last of the bread I still have left. I can foresee a couple of wedges of cheese on toast coming up.

  That is about all I can foresee. If this afternoon should turn out to at least start with sunny spells, I may try and force myself out for a walk, although at this time, with the grey light coming through the windows, I have very little enthusiasm to go out. I really have no idea what I will do today, although I may raise the enthusiasm to take a look at Jodie's mum's other old PC. It is a Dell, and they tend to be more reliable than Gateway PCs (a nasty cheap brand sold by Dixons). I have some hope that that PC may be more usable - although by "usable" I really mean made to be potentially usable even if it is never actually used.