I hadn't really intended to be so, but I was very busy yesterday. I did very little in the morning except start to feel a bit depressed. I was waiting for up to two things in the post, and neither came. One was the Nikon S6300 camera I ordered a week ago. It might come as parcel post, and be delivered any time in the morning, and maybe even in the afternoon. The other thing was more hoped for than expected, and it might have been a Valentines card, Today I feel a lot less optimistic about one arriving on Monday. In fact I think I now feel pessimistic about it. It was stupid to build up hope for something like that.

  It might have been late morning when I started, but what kept me occupied for all afternoon, and a little way into the evening, was just one task. I spent hours and hours doing more work to build my spreadsheet listing all the (better than OK-ish) pictures of trains. To make life even harder I have decided I would provide a link to a full sized picture of each train listed. That was mostly what I was doing, although I did add a few more previously omitted entries, and those, plus quite a few others needed the original picture edited to a maximum fixed size, and to crop off unwanted bits of the picture.

  One of the odd things is how this work distracted me from eating. I can't say I enjoyed the work, and at the time I felt sort of depressed that I wasn't doing something far more exciting. For instance, from indoors it looked so bright and cheerful that I kept thinking I should be out walking around the park, or something. I had to quickly remind myself that it was really cold out outside. It was not exactly comfortable in my kitchen when I went down to get some food.

  I had a single bowl of instant noodles for breakfast. It was a big packet (100gm), and I was worried that it might contain a lot of sugar because the nutritional information on the packet was not very helpful. In fact it looked designed to confuse. For my lunch I had a can of Irish stew (that I treat as if it is actually a chunky soup). I think I had a snack in the afternoon of the last 4 Marmite rice cakes with some cheese on them. Finally, I had two cans of Tesco, very low sugar, cream of chicken soup.  All that was washed down with several very large neat whiskies.

  As usual on Saturday night, Sky Arts were showing some music items, and I mostly just listened to some of a Roy Orbison concert. I was never a fan of Roy Orbison - except when he was part of The Travelling Willburys. The concert provided very little attraction, and I think I may have watched something else for a lot of it. Roy Orbison was followed by another Electric Light Orchestra concert. It must have been years earlier than the one recently showed by Sky. All the songs were good, but the video production was simply awful.

  ELO was followed by Roger Water's The Wall, and I looked forward to it, but it was rather disappointing. I was expecting the whole The Wall album to be played, but it was only selected songs with battle footage (I think) and on one occasion Roger Waters wandering around war graves in France or Belgium. What I wanted to do was to listen to it while reading, but there were these long non musical interludes, and after half an hour I turned the TV off.

  I read in bed for a good hour or so. The book I am reading, Nemesis by Isaac Asimov, is now getting enjoyable after a very slow start. I didn't take any painkillers before sleeping because while they can help sometimes, maybe after doing stuff like gardening or similar, but I did take a couple of constipation relief tablets because I hadn't "gone" all day. I must admit it is a bit of a guess, but I think I was sleeping soundly by 10pm.

  It was another night where I had some good long chunks of apparently deep sleep punctuated by periods of being awake, and sometimes thinking that maybe a couple of Paracetamol might have been a good idea after all. Such periods of being awake were probably less than 10 minutes long. I can't remember any details of my dreams now, but one or more of them concerned being back in education. I have never been to university, and so I have no real idea what it is like, but it did seem like some of my dreams were set in a university.

  This morning I was keen to check my blood glucose reading. I was hoping it would have gone down, and it seems that even though I might have been a bit drunk for a lot of the afternoon, I still managed to retain the discipline to eat the right stuff. This morning my blood glucose was just 6.7mmol/l, (it was 8.8mmol/l yesterday) and my fears of not getting another record low average at the end of the month have been set aside again for now.

  The other good thing, or good thing until it came close to an accident, was that my constipation was over this morning, and it seemed like maybe those constipation relief tablets might not have been necessary. In fact they may not have been a good idea. The first time I went it was a bit of a struggle, the second time, just 10 minutes later was very normal. The third time was usefully productive, and the fourth time hardly counted. The fifth time was a bit more special. It might have been the result of the constipation relief tablets. It came on really quickly, and I barely made it to the bathroom on time ! I hope it is all over now. Looking on the bright side, even after having instant noodles for breakfast, I am now so empty that the scales show I have lost most of the 2kg I had put on last month.

  I can only think of two things happening today. One is to wash my hair, and have a good scrub under the shower. I just couldn't be bothered to wash any more than my hands and teeth yesterday. I was in that sort of mood. This morning I have a desire to be clean and fresh for two reasons. I want to be, and secondly I think Jodie will be over for some beers this afternoon. The trains are running this Sunday, and unless she has some other plans, she can at least get here easily. That reminds me of one other thing I must do before I am distracted by beer. it is to get my dinner pre-cooked. It will be the diced lamb I had originally intended to have last night, and I think I will have it with leeks and maybe some broccoli.