Earlier forecasts showed Xmas day, today, as being a complete washout, but the latest revision shows it to be completely dry until 5pm when rain will start, and continue beyond midnight. It may be dry, but it is very dull, and the chances of seeing a single sunbeam today seem remote in the extreme. It was 8° C at 8am, but it is now cooling off, and the afternoon may be no more than 6° C. Tomorrow may see the temperature climb back to 10° C, but at the moment it is predicted to be a very wet day.

  There is not a lot I can say about yesterday. It was a long day for me, but very little happened - except I did drink a lot of beer, and eat mainly sandwiches. Both probably had consequences. My one bit of productivity was to transfer/digitise a few more old VHS tapes to digital mpg files. I had intended to edit, as in "top and tail" the crap off each end of stuff I had recorded off TV broadcast if needed, but mostly to convert the files to more compact mp4 files. I never got around to that.
  Much of my afternoon was concerned with guzzling the beers in the photo above. They were beers that Jodie gracefully allowed me to drink (from the beer advent calendars I bought) because she "had had them before" ! Jodie gets very offended if I get to drink a beer she has never tried before. It is because she is addicted to logging every different beer she drinks on the website called untappd (with no e in the name).

  I did look in another beer advent calendar or two, and I have pulled out a few more that I am sure she will have no further interest in.  Out of those 8 cans in the picture, at least two were unpleasant, or "minging" as Jodie likes to say. They were very sour tasting, and slightly hazy. In fact, when I think about it, I don't think I could point to even two of them that were particularly nice. I guess I am just not really in to modern hipster beers.

  The other interesting fact about yesterday's beers was that 8 cans is often more than we tend to get through on a Thursday afternoon beer session, and then each can might be split 3 ways so we can all have a taste. Drinking all 8 myself should have left me feeling very drunk, but somehow I never felt more than very slightly drunk. The proof of that is that I had my last can at about 6pm, and by midnight, when I would have expected it, I didn't have a hangover.

  I think the only thing I could bare to watch in TV last night was a single episode of Star Trek: Voyager. After  that I read for a bit, and then I started to find alternative entertainment on the internet. It was one of those occasions when you look at something, and there is a link to something else that seems vaguely interesting. You then keep following links until you suddenly realise that it is just about midnight.

  I came away from my PC then. I brushed my teeth, and then went to bed. I think it was nearly 1am before I fell asleep, but once asleep I seemed to sleep quite well. I had a few dreams, but the details seem too feint to try and describe any of them now. At 7am I woke up, and that seemed a silly time to get up, but I needed to get up for a pee anyway. I did my usual routine of checking my blood glucose, and found it to be very high, 10.7mmol/l. That basically means I ought to fast for much of today if I can.

  I also took all my morning pills, checked my email (nothing), and even went as far as to pop out to the garden to put more feed on the bird table. I then went back to bed. I wanted to sleep, but I didn't think it would happen, and then suddenly it was 9.15am. Maybe if I had turned over I could have got even more sleep, but perhaps I'll have a snooze or two later. Today will probably be a very dull day.

  I was thinking of going for a walk today, and it is possible I may still do that, but I find the dull grey sky takes away any enthusiasm. I was also thinking of not getting up today, but there is a minute possibility of a summons for a lunchtime pint. I supposed I ought to be clean and dressed in case that happens. Possibly my main activity today will be to get a bit of laundry done.