The sky was looking very threatening, but the sun managed to break through a little while ago. Meanwhile the forecast has been revised to show the first rain falling at 10am this morning. It will/may start light, but build up to heavy rain by midday. With luck the garden will be watered, and it will all be over soon after 5pm. This morning started out mild at around 12° C. It will apparently only rise to a rather cool 14° C today. Tomorrow will start dull, but it is supposed to brighten up by the afternoon, and the afternoon could see some a few isolated sunny spells. The temperature could hit a very summer like 20° C.
 
  Yesterday was an odd day. It didn't feel like a conventional hangover, but I guess it was partly a hangover that left me feeling "off". I can't really describe what "off" really means beyond it being a negative thing both physically and mentally. There were a few other things feeding into such a feeling. My poor sleep because of unstable guts, and my unstable guts still acting up through a lot of the morning didn't help. Then there was the negative weather. It may have barely rained, but that was still enough to make an assortment of joints ache.

  There was only one constructive thing I did yesterday, and it was more a case of had to rather than want to. It was to finish hand washing a medium sized bath towel. Enough bits of me ached to make me do the remaining rinses in two shifts with a long break between them. It was mid afternoon before I hung up the towel to dry. With hindsight I could have hung it on the washing line because it started dry after the short sprinkle of rain just before midday.

  One thing I tried to do, and to some extent I succeeded in doing was to really restrict what I was eating because of my high blood glucose reading in the morning (10.1mmol/l). I skipped breakfast, but I did have an early lunch of a bowl of instant noodles at around midday. I thought that by then my blood glucose had probably dropped below the danger line. I think it was mid to late afternoon when I was feeling hungry or bored enough to have a large snack.

  That large snack was the the remainder, in fact probably over half, of a pack of "chicken trimmings" from Aldi. I can't imagine it having a long shelf life once opened, even when stored in the fridge. I thought I had better not just use some, but use it all up. I microwaved it for 3 minutes. That should have got it hot enough to kill any bugs that might have started growing on it. I ate it all with a very generous squirt of mayonnaise, and an occasional splash of chilli sauce.

  By the afternoon I had got tired of trying to snooze, and yet every time I started reading my eyelids would droop, and every time I put the book down and closed my eyes I did not fall asleep. Actually I think I may have had one short snooze. For want of something more entertaining I started to watch more episodes of season three of Star Trek: Picard. Like the start of season 1 and 2, a lot of the first few episodes were just boring scene settings for the following episodes which are more entertaining. Although I still maintain that a decent TV educated editor, instead of hack movie editor, would have cut each season down the 6 half hour episodes, and it would be better for it.

  I kept sort of forgetting that yesterday was an ordinary week day, and that there would be the usual Star Treks on in the early evening. I watched them with little enthusiasm. The "Next Generation" offering was a repeat of a repeat of a repeat, and I could watch it with my eyes closed. "Enterprise" was a tedious storyline that I have seen at least once before, and found it boring every time.

   It was one of those stories that feed into the Federation "Prime Directive" - basically about not interfering with other cultures. In this case it was about an alien race with three sexes. The third sex was considered a lower form of life, and "Tripp", one of the Enterprise's senior officers thought he should liberate her/it from it's traditional lifestyle of being something like a pampered pet. It all ended in disaster, and would end up as another parable why alien cultures should not be interfered with.

  Star Trek: Voyager was marginally not boring, but it was full of the sort of sappy do gooding that Michael loves about the series, and I don't. I can't quite remember if it was during Enterprise or Voyager that I felt like I wanted some dinner, and I wanted something unusual, and only possibly safe in some respects. I had a whole tub of Oppo, low calorie, and seemingly low sugar ice cream. It was very nice, and very satisfying.

  Despite it being a weekday, Dave were not showing any QI or Have I Got News For You last night. They were showing a couple of episodes of Red Dwarf, but despite being a fan originally I seemed to have grown up or something....or maybe the later episodes just didn't have the pull of earlier episodes. I don't know what series last nights two episodes were from. I elected to slowly go to bed. I can't be sure, but I think I was possibly asleep by 9pm.

  I think I slept well last night. I only got up to pee a couple of times before about 5am. It was probably about 5am when I woke up from what seemed to be a long dream, but no matter how I try I can't seem to recall anything about it now. I do get a slight hint that it might have involved pubs, but I could be confusing it with a dream from several days ago. After a pee I went back to bed, and to my surprise I slept until about 7.20am

  I think the final proof is in that provided I am careful, I can eat that Oppo ice cream without upsetting my blood glucose. This morning it was down to an unremarkable 8.6mmol/l. Had I eaten a meat and cabbage stew instead, it would probably have been lower....but who can tell. While my blood glucose, and it seems my bowels, are in good working order, the upcoming rain is making all sort of bit of me ache this morning. I am writing this with wrist support on my right wrist because it get so sore while typing.

  This morning I had a nice bowl of instant noodles, and tonight I need to use up some opened bacon and sausages. That should be nice, but I think it will be safer to have it with boiled white cabbage rather than baked beans. It could still be nice. I have no idea what I might eat during the day, but I suspect it may feature rice cakes. I also have no idea what I will be doing today - probably waiting for the rain, and then possibly watching the rain.