The forecast has been revised since taking the screenshot above. It now admits that the clouds are a dirty grey now, and have been since sunrise. Those clouds should be turning almost white soon, and stay like through the day. However 2 and 3pm are now shows as featuring sunny spells (but none for midday and 1pm now). This morning the temperature is an almost, but not mild 6° C, but it could rise to 9° C for a few hours this afternoon. It looks like it will be an almost mild night, but the temperature may drop to just 3° C by 9am tomorrow morning. From 9am the sun may come out, and stay out all day. That will take the temperature up to 6 or 7° C until it starts to plunge down cold enough for frost, and a freezing fog the morning after.

   It feels like yesterday was a successful day, and yet not a lot happened. Two important things did happen, and I'll describe those soon. I was very lazy for a lot of the day. The big problem was that I wasn't feeling good, and I don't know if it was physical or mental. In all likelihoods it was a mix of both, with each aiding the other in a negative direction. It didn't feel like I had slept well the night before, and yet in all the opportunities I had to have a snooze, I hardly snoozed at all.

  As I said yesterday, I had some aches and pains that could have been result of a viral infection (or any species), but none were anything new, and have been constant friends for years now - particularly ankles, knees and hips, plus the regular aches and pains from my scar tissue and stuff since my quad heart bypass operation. The biggest problem was that there was no good distractions from any ache - distractions like hot sunshine, and pleasant breezes.

  The very worst thing was a sort of guilt about wasting a day and/or being lazy. I should probably stand back and think that my income has already been earned, and should be stable until the revolution comes. I no longer contribute to mankind, and it doesn't really matter if I do nothing. On the other hand there is always that nagging thing called pride, and a personal need to accomplish something - anything.

  I am happy to say I did accomplish two things yesterday. The first was that later in the afternoon I sat down with the old(ish) PC that I have been playing with - the one which seemed to have a locked, or if not locked, weird BIOS. I had tried installing Devuan Linux on it many times, and every time it was fully installed except the BIOS didn't know how to load the bootloader. I eventually got it working thanks to a utility called Rescatux.

  Rescatux is downloaded as an iso file which is a disk image that needs to be burnt to a CD - except the latest version, Rescatux 0.74, is a tiny bit too big to burn to most recordable CDs, and I had to burn it to a DVD. It does all sorts of things, and one useful thing was to confirm that the BIOS on that pc was not a UEFI bios, and it should have read a standard bootloader. Maybe it is corrupt or something, but it was quite happy with the bootloader that Rescatux installed. It only needed a few clicks, one of them to confirm that I wanted to boot the installation of Devuan it had found, and a few minutes later I had a perfectly working PC.

  The other achievement of the day was to give in and order a takeaway for dinner. I reasoned that I needed something that I knew would reduce my blood glucose level down to something more acceptable. A Chinese or Indian takeaway, apart from being supremely nice, would not do it, but shish kebabs can. I ordered a large chicken and a large lamb shish kebab, and although expensive they were big.

  The designations of small, or standard, large or extra large mean what ever the restaurant wants them to mean. I often find that the large costs little more than small, and yet the large contains considerable more meat. The curious thing is that the last time I used The Ladywell steak and kebab house I feel sure it was all presented differently. Last night the salad came in separate containers, and I didn't rate it very highly. It was OK though, and at least the meat seemed very good.

  I did two other things late last night, apart from watching some TV, and reading, I went online and ordered a new 2TB 2.5" hard drive for the little PC I have been playing with. I noted that 2TB seems to be the sweet spot for hard drives at the moment. It is the "standard" size, and so is the most economical (about £60). Many want much bigger drives, and double the capacity is well over double the price, while half the capacity is more than half the price. The other thing I did was to take a couple of Paracetamol tablets.

  The result of those painkillers was a very comfortable night with apparently lots of great sleep. It seemed just so easy to lay my head on the pillow and fall asleep in minutes, if not seconds. That happened after the 3 or so times I got up for a pee as well. I even fell asleep easily in my dreams ! The only dream I can remember was about sitting in a classroom, probably at college level, and falling asleep during the demonstrations !

  This morning I didn't want to get up because I felt warm and comfortable in bed, and yet it got to the point where try as I might, I could not stay asleep. I got up at about 7.30am, and that felt like a fair time for a Sunday. I was very happy to find my blood glucose had indeed dropped - right down to 7.9mmol/l from 9.4mmol/l yesterday morning. And that was despite have two portions of instant noodles for lunch yesterday. Instant noodles seem to be an unknown quantity - sometimes they seem to make my blood glucose rise, and sometimes don't affect it.

  I really don't know what is happening today - literally. Jodie would usually come over in the afternoon for some more beer tasting, but I have a feeling she is otherwise busy today. I will have to get a confirmation from her nearer the afternoon. There are a few things I must do today - mainly housework sort of stuff. The kitchen rubbish bin is getting a bit smelly, and needs to be emptied into the black wheelie bin. The recycling bag has now expanded into two bags, and needs to ne taken out to the green wheelie bin. I also need to do a sink full of washing up. Oh well, that sounds like enough work for one day!