It might have been before midnight, but if not, not long after that I decided to close my bedroom window. There was some wind disturbing the curtains, and that wind felt quite chilly. This morning at 7am it was only 16° C, and it may well have been even cooler earlier. It is a bit cloudy at the moment, and some clouds look a bit grey, but it should stay dry today. As usual, the BBC weather forecast is far more optimistic about the amount of sunshine today, but the latest revision to the Met Office forecast has filled in a lot of the gaps, seen in the screenshot above, with sunny spells or sunshine. They have also reduced the single hour (4pm) at 25° C with 24° C. The BBC reckon it will only reach 23° C today. Tomorrow will probably see similar temperatures, but it is likely to be a wet day.
  I guess yesterday was another in the series of partly wasted, mostly unexciting days, that sort of crept up on me. In realistic terms I achieved very little. On the other hand I didn't seem to be bored yesterday - except in the evening when there was nothing on TV.

  The one definite thing I did yesterday was to go shopping in Tesco late in the morning. It was unusual in that I didn't buy any drink at all, but I did buy three bags of washed, and ready to eat, assorted salad leaves. I think I only bought two contentious items. One was a box of two ready to bake steak slices. They seem more enjoyable than any of the beef/steak pies I had tried recently. They are now in the freezer waiting for the right time to come along - maybe tomorrow, maybe next month, possibly even next year.

  The other contentious thing I bought was some chocolate ice cream. It was the low calorie and low sugar stuff that I usually tolerate OK, but maybe not this particular flavour. I was hot when I got back from Tesco. It was when at least one forecast said it might rain, possibly even with a bit of thunder, but it was sunny. It also felt very close. Stuffing my face with that ice cream seemed a most natural thing to do, and I feel I should have got away with it.

  There was one other event that happened earlier than expected. In fact it happened a lot earlier than expected. it was a parcel delivery that until I checked earlier, I was not expecting until today. It actually arrived at 2.45pm yesterday, and that was earlier in the afternoon than many parcel delivers from Amazon. it was a new keyboard, and I am typing on it now.
  Yesterday I showed a picture of the backlit keyboard I had bought from Poundland. I mentioned that it was very pretty, but I thought it was a bit ricketty, plus to turn the backlight on or off I had to use a simple command line command. What I didn't mention was that later in the afternoon I decided what Amazon had to offer, and I found the keyboard in the picture above. It has two dedicated keys to turn the back light on and off, with two dimmer settings in the middle, plus a key to step through the colour combinations.

  It has a more solid feel than the Poundland keyboard, plus you can change the colours to suit the mood. This morning is the first time I have used it for any substantial typing, and sadly I am not sure if I like it. It is a very low profile keyboard, and the keys are very close to the surface. I am finding it hard to change my ""muscle memory" of where everything is. The worst thing is that it seems very hard on my finger tips. I can feel them going almost numb ! There is also the almost inevitable thing of "well it looks pretty, but.......". The back lighting does nothing to enhance the experience, maybe now the novelty is fast wearing off.

  I ended up spending a lot of time doing something I didn't expect to to do yesterday. I was reading some tech news, and one comment mentioned a book. It is no ordinary book, but a book written by a scientist who spent a lot of his career, working for the US navy, researching fuels of rockets. It is a fascinating read.i have read it before, maybe 10 years ago, but read about half of it yesterday (up to page 106 of 233). It is very heavy on chemistry, but my GCE "O" level in chemistry makes some of it almost understandable.

  My evening could have been stuck on reading, but I consulted the TV listings for something to watch while eating my grilled pork steaks with salad leaves. The only thing I could find on TV was the James Bond film "Live And let Die". I have very mixed opinions on these films. The first thought is I've seen it, and I can't wring more entertainment out of out, but you start watching and sort of remember there is a good bit coming up soon, and before you know it you have watched the same film for the 2nd, 3rd, and probably even more times.

  I think that between my ice cream lunch, and dinner I had a small bag of mixed nuts, but I wonder if I ate anything else. I thought I felt a bit off, and maybe I was in a strange way. I had two fairly large glasses of whisky, and I not only felt drunker than I ought to have done, but my stomach seemed to be a bit acidic,or something like that. I think that was the chief reason I only drank half the 2 litres of chilled tap water during the night.

  Once again I was in bed before sunset last night. I thought I would spend a lot longer reading than just the few pages I read. It didn't feel too warm last night, and getting to sleep seemed easy enough. As I mentioned nearer the top of the page, it was just before or just after midnight when I decided to close my bedroom window. It seemed to be mildly windy, and as well as the wind rattling the curtains, it was a cool feeling wind. I was comfortable enough through the night sleeping uncovered without the aid of a fan.

  I think I could describe my sleep as fairly good last night except for the last hour when I was just drifting in and out of sleep. I was quite surprised to see how little water I drank last night, but then again I didn't think I was dehydrating by sweating - at least my pillow was only mildly damp in one place. Maybe not drinking all the water was the reason why my blood glucose reading had shot up to an annoying 9.3mmol/l this morning. The only other culprit I can think of might have been the ice cream, but as I said before, it has seemed safe in the past.

  There is just one thing on the agenda today. as soon as I am washed and dressed i will be going to the pharmacy to order my next repeat prescription. My current drugs will run out on Thursday, and hopefully this time they will have my complete prescription read to pick up on Thursday. Last time they forgot the blood glucose meter test strips, and the low dose aspirin.

  After I have been to the pharmacy I will have another think about what I shall do today. I know I should go out for a walk, but I am finding it very hard to raise the enthusiasm for that. Lack of walking is making walking feel harder work than it should be. The only cure is to do the walking I don't want to do because it feels too much like hard work.