As I said yesterday morning, I wasn't really expecting anything to happen until yesterday afternoon. Apart from washing up a few items, sometimes as needed, and having a shower, nothing did happen. I took advantage of all that spare time to read some more from the current book I am reading, Isaac Asimov's "Nemesis". I have to admit it is one of his books that seems to being really slowly, and I am looking forward to when the chapters that set the background finish, and (hopefully) the action starts. I have owned the book for several or more years, and so I must have read it before. It may be telling that I can't remember a single thing about it. That is unusual.

  I saw Michael in the afternoon. He had been shopping in Tesco, and because he uses a shopping trolley, and drives there, I am happy to take up his offer to buy me bottles of Diet Coke - 6 of them ! He told me his bowel condition does seem to have improved a bit, and that there was a small chance that he might pop in later. He is missing the company and the beer of our Thursday sessions. I didn't really expect him to pop around, and he didn't, but hopefully, if he continues to improve, we will be having a beer with him sooner or later.

  Jodie arrived half an hour later than usual because she had some errands to run in the afternoon, and just missed the train she was aiming for. As usual, she wasn't particularly communicative. I sometimes think that she saves up a lot of the stuff she does on her phone until she can connect to my WiFi to save her mobile data consumption. I think she pays rather a lot for not that much data - a typical arrangement for most mobile phone "packages".  I am so glad I got off that treadmill, and have bought my last 5 or 6 phones outright, and now pay just £8 a month for all the data I need (lookup giffgaff.com).
  Jodie did show some interest in my new Canon Ivy camera. I think her thoughts were similar to mine is so much that because it doesn't really look like a camera, it could probably get past "security" at gigs. I think it may shoot good video at gigs, but that thought is subject to a test I shall do one day. In the meantime, I did get a snap of Jodie drinking. Sadly she couldn't manage a smile when I asked to take a better photo.

  Jodie stayed to about her typical leaving time, and left to get the 6.28 train to Clock House station where she would be meeting Alan at The Three Hounds beer shop/bar a few hundred feet from the station. I guess Jodie feels she has to really pace her drinking because after leaving my place it is always to go and do more drinking. I am quite happy to get drunk because all I have to do is to eat my dinner, and then go to bed...although there is usually a couple of hours between eating and going to bed.

  In the morning I had my single bowl of instant noodles. My lunch was a bit different. I usually would have something that might buffer the beer. I don't know if three Marmite flavoured rice cakes, with cheese on them, was quite as effective. What I do know is that I was really looking forward to my dinner. I had decided I couldn't be bothered to cook the diced beef and green vegetable casserole I was planning. Instead I went for two cans of soup. I was looking forward to one of them being a can of Irish stew, but I found I didn't have a can of it. I had two cans of "chunky" soup instead.

  It wasn't long after I had those chunky soups that I still felt like something more. The easiest thing was to have the same as I had for lunch - another three rice cakes with cheese on them. In theory, rice cakes should add the very minimum sugar to my diet, but I sometimes have doubts.  I watched two episodes of The Simpsons, and half an episode (the second half) of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, but I was yawning a lot, and headed to bed to read for a while.

  I'm not sure how long I read for, but I think I put the book down, and turned out the lights by 9pm. I don't think it was long after 9pm before I was sound asleep. I slept apparently OK until about half past midnight. I woke up feeling a bit uncomfortable. When laid in a certain position I had very mild, but still very annoying, stabbing pains in the vicinity of my navel. I wondered if it was something to do with the fact that I only went to the toilet once in the morning yesterday, and I didn't pass more than a small amount.

  I got up, and went to the toilet, and after a while I passed something more substantial than I had in the morning. I thought that would be it, but 10 minutes later I went to the toilet and did the same again. I ended up making a third visit 10 or 15 minutes later, but that was only half the amount. It was not nice having to do all this in a cold bathroom while I really wanted to be sleeping in a warm bed, but it seemed to cure that annoying pain

  I guess I lost at least a full hour of sleep, and maybe a little more, but from then on I seemed to sleep quite well. I didn't even seem to wake up for a pee as often as usual. It was gone 7am when I got up this morning, and it wasn't long before I was on the toilet again, and this morning I passed a normal amount as if nothing had happened in the night. I guess quite a lot had backed up. One particular problem with that is that digestion still goes on, and more sugar is extracted from it. This morning my blood glucose went up to 8.3mmol/l. It was only a small increase, and it could equally have been caused by eating those rice cakes late in the evening, or maybe one or more of the beers had a fair amount of sugar in it. My running average blood glucose level hasn't gone up much, and it is still a record low.

  I have just one plan for today, and it is to go shopping in Tesco this morning. I want to buy several more cans of Irish stew, because I really like it, and probably several cans of chicken casserole. I could also do with a few spare packets of instant noodles. The ones they sell in Tesco are not nearly as good as those from the little supermarket on Catford Bridge. I noticed this morning, because I had it for breakfast, that Batchelor's "Low Fat" instant noodles have twice the sugar of (presumably) high fat noodles. I have never had any instant noodles that appear to contain more than a smear of fat or oil, and I shall stick to them rather than a version where sugar is substituted for flavour - a typical dirty American trick. This mornings high sugar noodles weren't even very nice !

  The other thing I must buy in Tesco is a Valentines card for Angela. That means the most important thing I will be doing this afternoon is getting it in the post box before the evening collection at (I think) 4.30pm. I don't know what else I might do today. It seems like it will be too cold to go galumphing through the park, but I suppose it could be a possibility if it seems sunny enough.