Last nights weather forecast for today warned of freezing fog, but today has dawned bright and clear.  The latest revision to the forecast shows the last sunny spells at 1pm, and after that it will be mostly bright, but no sunshine. It will also be as cold as cold as yesterday with a mid afternoon high of 7° C. As I write this there is a thick frost, and the temperature is minus 1.1° C ! Tomorrow may start at 6° C, but it will be grey until 2pm when there will be sunny spells until sunset. At that time the temperature could be 9° C.


 The temperature this morning was possibly the first time that it was in minus figures (although it has felt like that many times this winter). I could be wrong about it being the first time, after all we have seen many frosty mornings, but for reasons that defy explanation, this one feels colder. Maybe the frost looks thicker or something.

  Yesterday's glorious sunshine should have inspired me to do something or another, but I actually had a mostly lazy day. Maybe going out shopping in Aldi in the morning drained any desire to do anything physical, but there was more to it than that. The problem was that I didn't feel good, and the problem with that is that I think it was just imagination. It's all terribly complicated. I felt fine when I was out shopping, and then one of three things, or possibly a combination of things conspired to reduce my feeling of well being.

   One good excuse was that it was the return of the post-gardening aches, perhaps revived by carrying heavy shopping. Maybe the cold revived some of those pains, but I was wearing a very warm coat, and felt sweaty when I got my heavy shopping home. A very likely contender for making me feel bad was overeating some of the junk I bought in Aldi. I have described some of that yesterday.  Another explanation was that it was just another flare up of costochondritis/twisted rib/warped sternum, or just inflamed scar tissue - all the after effects of my quad heart bypass operation.

  As I said above, there is also the possibility that I imagined somewhere between 0% and 100% of it. I did note a few times when I was sufficiently distracted when I felt fine. The actual thing making me feel ill was chest pain, but long experience told me is was probably muscular/soft tissue in origin. There is also a possibility that there might have been a bit of heartburn added to it. I did notice that eating, particularly the pies that I burnt, and so didn't eat the charred crust, might have actually been a trigger for it all.

  With the sun shining through my bedroom windows, directly onto my bed, it was a great time to turn the heater off now and then, and to lie on my bed quietly reading. I can't specifically remember snoozing, but it is very likely that I had one or more snoozes. It wasn't until the sun had moved around, and was heading for sunset, that I was stirred into some sort of action. Before that I had done some minor activity like taking in a small parcel from the postman, and getting some food ready.

  The parcel the postman brought was a 2TB 2.5 inch hard drive for the mini PC I have been playing with. It was quite remarkable that my Amazon order was made at 10:45 pm on Saturday night, and it was delivered at Monday lunchtime. The little bit of activity I started near sunset was to fit that hard drive in the mini PC, and install Devuan Linux on it. As usual for that PC, the installation failed to install a working bootloader, although it came nearer to one than the previous time. I hope I can repair the situation using the same rescue/repair disk - Rescatux - that worked when I was doing the trial installation on a small hard disk. I probably should have just cloned the small hard disk, and then expanded the partitions to fill the big disk.

  I couldn't find the patience to do the rescue/repair process last night. I even had some doubts about why I needed such a bog hard disk in the tiny PC. I think I want to use it as a replacement for the old laptop that I use mostly as a music player in the dining room. The idea was that I could put copies of my entire music and photo collection on the tiny PC, but that would then make the laptop redundant, and being old and slow I can't think of a better use for it than as a music player.....Although the idea does occur to me I could use it as a standby web server in case the one serving these web pages should die on me.

  After eating too much during the morning I partly did the same for dinner. I had started to cook some cod in beer batter, in my mini oven and grill, but when getting that cod (in beer batter) out of the fridge I saw, and so reminded myself that there was a packet of peri-peri smoked mackerel in there that I had bought the previous week. I had that as (one of those things I will have to copy and paste the name from something like wikipedia) a hors d'oeuvre ! The main course was the beer battered cod with fine string beans.

  Last night was another night when I ended up watching TV until almost 10pm, although I didn't really start watching until 8pm. While watching TV I washed my dinner down with a couple of bottles of strong beer, and after I had finished those I had a couple of Paracetamol. They do help a lot to get a good sleep when bits of me ache, or like last night, prone to ache. Maybe they work too well because like the previous night (or was it the one before that ?) I slept very solidly for 5 or 6 hours, and than had a period of insomnia.

  This morning I don't feel too bad. I even don't feel too bad about my blood glucose. I was expecting the worst after eating so much yesterday, but it was lower than expected. It was obviously nowhere near the wonderful low reading yesterday morning, 6.5mmol/, but 8.2mmol/l is under my typical monthly average of 8.5mmol/l. I think I will be eating more carefully today, and in an ideal world I would get a lower reading tomorrow, but there often seems to be some sort of lag involved, but I will be happy to match today's reading.

  This morning, like the morning before yesterday, I have started with a breakfast of 2 bowls of instant noodles. I predict I will be having soup for lunch. I can't seem to predict anything else I will do today. I might go out to do a little bit of shopping. A couple of strong beers would be handy, and another pile of instant noodles would also be good. The most likely thing I will do today is to wash my hair. It is feeling a bit yucky, not that it really matters because I won't be seeing anyone today, but it will feel nicer to have clean hair.