As the pictures show, there were six 330ml sized bottles, two larger bottles of special beer, and two cans. The two larger bottles have their crown caps sealed with wax, and are sometimes known as "cellar beers" because the wax seal extends their life for several or more years. I could save them for Xmas, or even longer. All the rest of the beers, plus 4 other beers from different breweries, are in my little beer fridge, and the first will be opened on Thursday when Jodie is here.
  The beers came with the thank you note above, and so it was for a good cause as well as trying some beers I have never tried before. Just this morning, as I was writing the paragraph above the thank you note, I had another delivery of some Estonian beers. I noticed them on Amazon when ordering some other stuff. The only downside is that I had to buy a box of 12 made up of 4 bottles each of only 3 different beers. I hope they are good beers !

  Getting that beer delivery (and this morning's) was a great relief because it takes a lot of uncertainty away. I always find it hard to concentrate when I am expecting a delivery, and don't really know exactly when it will be. It meant I was reluctant to do much during the day. It was a rather peculiar days because it should have been boring and depressing, but somehow it wasn't.

  One thing I did yesterday was to copy Jodie's backup hard disk to a second bigger hard disk so there are now copies of the small hard disk. That small hard disk can now be sued for something else, but being so small I'll probably keep it as it is as a further backup. While the disk copying was going on downstairs on the new dining room computer, I had another go at the failed hard disk. I took it out of it's case, and connected it to my big PC using a SATA to USB interface cable.
  It was very easy to flip the top off the case of this external hard drive to reveal what is a standard sized laptop hard disk (the middle bit of the picture above). Connecting it by the interface cable eliminated the tiny circuit board in the case. I then deleted everything, and re-formatted the drive using the more robust ext4 disk system before trying to copy a load of Jodie's pictures to it. After about 20GB had been transferred it must have hit a fault bit of the disk platter, and it failed. I conclude this hard disk is a complete failure. I am expecting a new hard disk to put inside the enclosure, with it's blue lid, to arrive "some time before 9pm" today.

  There is probably nothing much else to tell about yesterday apart from what I ate, and what TV I watched. My breakfast was a single packet of lobster flavour instant noodles. I don't think it tasted anything like lobster, but it was reasonably tasty in a sort of spicy way. My lunch was a can of beans with smoky bacon. It was one of the cans that come from one of the Eastern European countries where they use real fatty and smoky bacon instead of whatever crap is put in with crappy, and sugary baked beans.

  During the afternoon I had some lightly salted rice cakes with salad leaves and Shropshire Blue cheese. Those lightly salted rice cakes are so much nicer than the multi-grain rice cakes I was eating recently - and it would be hard to use the word nice to actually describe those multi-grain rice cakes. My dinner was a whole pack of German "Frikkadilan", or whatever they are called. They come from Aldi, and are a sort of pork based burger patty.

  I watched two episodes of QI last night - one a standard length, and the other an extended, "QIXL", episode. The latter finished at 10pm, and then I went straight to bed where I read for half an hour or so. I had no trouble getting to sleep, and although I woke up maybe 4 times in the night for a pee, I slept quite soundly. I had none of the odd aches, pains, itches, or other things to keep me awake. It wasn't dreamless sleep, but my memories of those dreams is so vague that there is nothing substantive to describe.

  Apart from the gloomy sky outside, this morning is a sort of happy morning. My blood glucose reading was down to just 8.2mmol/l, and although I would wish for a lower reading, it is pretty good. As I mentioned further up the page, I had a delivery, via Royal Mail, of another box of beers I had ordered. That is another headache out of the way. The only headache left is that I am expecting a delivery from, and by Amazon today. Every so often they surprise me by turning up earlier than expected. Generally they always arrive very late afternoon, and I am relying on them being that late today because I have things to do today.

  Once I am washed and dressed I need to go to Tesco for a little bit of shopping. At 1pm I will be meeting Angela in the pub for a couple of drinks together. I'll be keeping my fingers crossed all the time hoping that Amazon don't pull a joker on me, and try an early delivery today. After the drink it will just be a matter of waiting for the delivery, and looking forward to dinner. It could be Turkish sausage with salad, or maybe I'll find something exotic in Tesco today.