Apart from doing one thing, that took a little physical effort, I was mostly very sedentary yesterday. As I mentioned yesterday morning, I wasn't feeling all that good yesterday. Some of it was the lack of sleep after a bad night, and some was just the depressing grey sky outside. Maybe there were other things, but basically I just felt like resting a lot.

  The one thing I did do was to hand wash a couple of t-shirts and 5 pairs of underpants - thus proving I change my underpants more often than my t-shirts ! This is, of course completely correct and sort of expected. I generally only wear a t-shirt if I am in public, r answering the door.  By contrast, I wear underpants all the time. The funny thing about doing that laundry was that I was expecting I would want to do it in 2 stages or more, but once I started I didn't stop until it was all hanging up to dry.

  There was one other tiny little thing I did that was inspired by doing that laundry. It was to turn the gas up on the water heater because in these cold days the water was not hot enough. Initially I overdid it, and this morning I turned it down a little bit because it was too hot to shower under. It is not helped by the water pressure being reduced at the moment - or so it seems. I think that when there is a danger of frost the water pressure is reduced.

  When it is this low the heater sometimes "trips out" because the flow is not fast enough, and I have to turn on the washbasin tap to a slow trickle to stop the water in the shower going cold on me. Of course there is always the possibility that the diaphragm that control the gas flow is beginning to fail. It happened 10 or 15 years ago, and I ended up having to change it. Luckily I bought a spare diaphragm if it does need changing, but it is going to be a bugger of a job to do it.

  I spent most of yesterday either reading, snoozing, or eating. I think I dropped off to sleep a couple of times, but I don't any of them were for very long. Some of the reading was online, and some from a book. I had three meals yesterday, and they were carefully selected to be low sugar, or at least known to not raise my blood glucose level. I had two bowls of instant noodles for breakfast, two cans of soup for lunch, and two cans of soup for dinner. Three of those cans of soup featured high fibre stuff like beans or lentils ! Dinner also included a dessert of a couple of Satsumas and a Conference pear.

  I was looking forward to bed last night, although I didn't get to bed as early as I could have. I took a couple of Ibuprofen before I went to bed because my chest/rib cage was playing up. While I was just laying in bed reading I could feel something pop every time I breathed in. Maybe "pop" is not quite the right word, and perhaps "click" would be better. It was like one rib was catching against another as my chest expanded. I doubt that was really the case, but it is the best analogy I can come up with.

  The good thing about last night is that I actually remember very little about it. I know I got up for a pee a couple of time, but when it was, and any other details are beyond recollection. I have a vague recollection of a period of insomnia, but I have a feeling it probably didn't last for more than 10 minutes. It all feels like I was sleeping so well that there was just nothing to remember it by.

  It wasn't until it was almost morning that I had some dreams. The details are very fuzzy now, but I remember the dream was set in the TV repair workshop I used to work in. There were actually two "episodes" in this dream location. One was by my bench, and I was trying to sort out some dodgy wiring. The other was in an office just off the workshop. I was using a very old computer, running Linux - mostly from the command line. I seemed to be able to download stuff from You Tube very easily, but the age of the computer would suggest it was actually before You Tube existed !

  I woke up about 20 minutes before I wanted to get up, and so I thought I would just lay in bed for a few minutes more. I woke up again 15 minutes after I wanted to get up (which for no reason other than some sort of neatness was 7am). I was hoping that when I checked my blood glucose it would have gone down, and I was not disappointed. This morning it was just 7.9mmol/l - down from 8.8mmol/l yesterday. That was still a tad over my desired figure, but I can't really complain about it. My running average for this month is now down to 8.25mmol/l, and that is a record low since 2019.

  I do feel physically better than yesterday, although I wouldn't be rash enough to say I feel good today. The miserable colour of the sky puts a dampener on anything like being able to feel good. I do feel there is a small chance I could go out today. One thing I did before going to bed was to do a few experiments with the old Nikon D80 camera I bought last year. I wondered how it would do when using a flash gun. It is always a bit of an experiment when using a flash gun.

   There are ways of calculating the optimum exposure, and if it meant wasting expensive film it might be worth doing it, but for a digital camera it is easy to to take some test shots. It is still all guesswork if there are other sources of illumination such as taking snaps of a band on stage. In those situations I try to use the flash gun as just a filler to avoid deep shadows, but not enough to bleach the coloured stage lighting.

  One problem with that Nikon D80 is that it always seems to underexpose pictures, but last night I proved that when using the flash, and having to ignore the exposure meter in the camera, it could take some cracking pictures of a few random things in my bedroom. It gives me some confidence it might be good for band photography, but maybe less so for outdoor photography - unless I get the hang of deliberately over exposing the shot (according to the built in light meter). There is a tiny chance I might take it for a walk today, but if I do go out it is much more likely to be to do a bit of shopping.