Yesterday was a very unexciting day, but most of it wasn't boring. I didn't really do much until just after midday when I went out to do some shopping in the little multicultural supermarket on Catford Bridge, and also in Poundstretcher. My principal purchases from the little supermarket were garlic sausage, and more instant noodles. I bought two lots of garlic sausage. One of them was an extra strong version that is for Michael (and I hope he uses it all up before coming round for a beer session on Thursday !).

  There were two principle things I wanted, found, and bought from Poundstretcher. One was bird food, and in particular bags of dried insects and larvae. I am getting more small birds in my garden now that it is very wintry, and some of them prefer a bit of meat instead of just grains. I also got some fat balls for them too. The other thing I was after, although I had no pre-conceived ideas of exactly what I wanted, was some more seeds for my garden. Most of what I got were actually bulbs instead of seeds.

   I think many of those bulbs flower much later than crocuses, and hopefully will flower in late spring or summer. Of course that means they should be planted very soon. Yesterday felt too cold, and I just wasn't in the right mood to do any gardening, but I'll have to do some sooner or later. I don't know if it was the cold when I went out shopping, although I was in a very warm coat, but I didn't feel all that good yesterday afternoon. I checked quite a few times that I didn't have a temperature, and indeed it was a couple of degrees below traditional fever level, but I still felt cold for a lot of the day.

  I had a can of hot lentil soup soon after I came back from shopping, and that helped warm me up a bit, but it also made me want to just lie down and read and/or snooze. It must have been gone 3pm before I went down to the dining room to play with the new (secondhand) PC I recently had delivered. I have to say my experiments were complete failures. I took out the hard disk that came with it, and is supposed to have Windows 10 on it, and set it aside for another time - maybe.

  I fitted a 3TB hard disk and tried to get that working. I wanted to install Windows XP on a small portion of that hard disk (maybe 250GB) before installing Devuan Linux on the rest of the disk. The Windows installation disk crashed saaying that either the hard disk was faulty, or it had a virus on it. That seemed unlikely, and so I tried to install Devuan Linux, and that didn't work at all, although the installer never showed any error messages.

  I wondered if the PC couldn't handle such a big hard disk. Once upon a time there was a limit of 2TB, but that was on older, 32 bit machines, but that shouldn't apply on this machine. Just in case, I tried a 1.5TB hard disk, and once again Windows choked on it, and this time even the Devuan Linux installer seemed to get stuck. It suddenly occurred to me that both hard disks came from the same source. A friend had given them to me after upgrading his CCTV video recorder with ever bigger and bigger hard disks.

   I suspect that video recorder writes something to the boot sector of the disk, and it can only be removed by doing a low level format, but that is not easy to do these days. It is something I will have to look into one day if I am ever to use those hard disks for something useful. It was almost dinner time when I gave up - a convenient time to down tools. After dinner I dug out a 3TB hard disk that I had bought from new, and it was a much faster disk as well. I did the partitioning using a USB to SATA converter on my main PC. It partitioned very smoothly. I'll see what happens when I try it in the new (old) PC.

  Apart from too many nuts, which while low in sugars, are quite high in calories, I had eaten very sensibly during the day. My dinner was pretty sensible as well - apart from the saturated fats. It was a casserole of diced lamb with sprouts. It was very enjoyable, and almost filling. It was a little later, while not fully engaged with watching TV that I ate quite a lot of the nuts I mentioned earlier.

  There is not a lot to say about my sleep last night. I mostly slept well. I had one short period of insomnia at around 4am. I think that was when I seemed to feel too hot under the duvet, but too cold without it. It seemed to be a good time to turn the heater up full blast. It took a couple of hours before it was warm enough to sleep with the duvet pushed aside, but oddly enough I think I did the rest of my sleeping, after that short period of insomnia, actually under the duvet.

  I knew that most of what I ate was fairly sensible, but there did seem to be a lot of it, and I did eat over half a pack of the banana flavoured Turkish Delight I mentioned the other day. Once again I did wash all the sugar powder off, and just enjoyed the flavoured gelatine. Despite all that I seemed to get another very low blood glucose reading this morning. It was just 6.7mmol/l, and my running average is now at an all time (as in the last couple of years) low.

  While that aspect of my body is apparently healthy I don't feel all that wonderful this morning. Much of it is just the pain of a very grey sky. Maybe it is a change in atmospheric pressure or something. I have no specific symptoms except for a very mild headache. It is as if I have mild hangover, but I didn't drink that much at all last night - maybe a single, albeit large, whisky.

  It's worth updating the weather forecast at this point. There has been another revision since I started writing, and now the forecast shows one single hour of sunny spells at 11am. Before and after is shown as light cloud with heavy cloud starting at 2pm. To my eyes it is already heavy cloud. It does not inspire me to go out to do anything like walking, or gardening, although I feel like popping out to buy a packet of crisps. I could really enjoy a naughty packet of crisps while my blood glucose is so low.