It is looking like it might rain soon, but there has been no rain so far this morning. The latest revision to the forecast just says light rain at 10am and 1pm. There could be random sunny spells in the afternoon, and the temperature should reach 22° C. Meanwhile, the BBC tells a slightly different tale of light rain from 10am to 1pm, and sunny spells and even strong sunshine later in the afternoon, but only 21° C expected this afternoon. Tomorrow should start off nice and bright, but cloudy spells may dominate much of the rest of the day. 23° C is the highest expected temperature.

  I'm not sure how doing what you mostly like doing can be a bore, but yesterday was a bit boring. It mainly involved photo editing, but I also did some eating, and in the evening I watched some moderately good TV instead of going out. Not going out was a mix of feeling a bit tired, and because it was raining. I also had a big dinner, and that made feeling tired even worse.

  Much of yesterday, from late morning to almost late afternoon, was dominated by photo editing. Of course it wasn't non stop. I took time out to eat, read a few pages, and finally finish washing the underpants that were blood stained when the boil on my inner thigh burst. I was very pleased that after soaking almost 24 hours in bio detergent all traces of the blood vanished.

  The reason the photo editing took so long was that I was trying to be creative, or arty, or something. I was doing lots of little touch up to make the subjects stand out more in the rather bland lighting at the Hell On Tap gig - even my flash gun couldn't liven that up, although it did brighten it up.
  In this picture of Carrie and Steve, Carrie originally was not as well lit as Steve, and I think I managed to get her looking bright enough so she didn't seem to be in the shadow.
  Getting the whole band in one shot was not easy, and it took a bit of work to get them all reasonably lit. It would have helped if I could have stood back a bit further from the band, or had a wider angle lens. I did have my super wide angle, fish eye lens with me, and I should have tried it, but the picture would need heavy cropping because there is so much optical distortion on the outside of the image.
  One of the things I was trying to do at Chain's gig was to make sure I got a few good pictures of Chris. He is not so photogenic as Jo, and for some unknown reason his face often seems to come out looking quite red under some lighting - but only to the camera, and not to the naked eye. There is a plug-in for my photo editor specifically to "cure" red faces, but it is not always effective.  Fortunately Chris didn't look too red in this picture, and it is a good "man and guitar" shot.
  It is always nice to capture a nice smile, and this one from Jo looks very nice. I did enhance it by carefully darkening the background so she stands out more.

  I think it was the intensity of editing all the pictures - all 27 of them, or about one in four pictures taken. It did demand quite a lot of concentration at times. I think it was the tiredness it caused, plus the thought of doing it again today if I had gone to the gig last night, that was a significant reason why I didn't go out. I had the chance of getting pictures of two bands last night, but they were in the same pub. It would have meant hanging around a long time unless I had known the correct time to arrive for the last half hour of the first band, and then the first hour of the second band.

  I had probably made my mind up I was not going well before it would have been time to leave. Having made up my mind i had a big(ish) dinner, and that sealed my fate. It takes me hours of resting before I fancy moving around after eating. I say the meal was big-ish, but the bulk of it was just plain green salad leaves. It was a sort of beef burger salad, that included slices of onion cooked under the burgers, and a sliced large tomato.

  The burgers were typical cheap and nasty made to look good by being "smoky" flavoured. They did go well with the ready made blue cheese ketchup-like salad dressing. I was in two minds about including the tomato. They can contain a lot of sugar, although the bigger the tomato, the less sugar they seem to have in them, and last nights was the size of a small apple.

  I had all that on top of what I thought was going to be a big lunch. It was the shepherds pie ready meal that I had half cooked for to the previous day, and fully cooked for yesterday's lunch. It did look very big until you slid it out of the big box it came in. It seemed to shrink a bit when cooked. In the end it seemed more like a large snack when I ate it. I think the box suggested it might feed two, but only with some added vegetables and stuff to pad it out.

  There were no Star Treks on last night, but Sky Arts were showing a few music related things. I first watched a documentary about Genesis. It was originally made by the BBC so it was quite slick without being sensational, and I have a fantasy feeling the production was carefully timed to make it awkward for other TV companies to slip in commercials. I would applaud them if that was really the case.

  Of course Sky Arts lives by commercials, and they are usually far too keen to slip them in at any convenient moment with no regard to anything like every half hour, or worse, every 15 minutes. One of their biggest sins is a commercial break between every song in a concert. Oddly enough, they didn't seem to do that when they showed a (much repeated) Pink Floyd Concert after the Genesis documentary.

  I part watched, and part listened to the Pink Floyd concert, and when it ended it seemed like a good time for bed (I think it was after 9pm, but before 10pm). I suspect some of it was repetitive strain injuries from all the mouse work I was doing as I edited my photos, but last night was another night when too many bits ached to relax properly to get to sleep. Taking a couple of Paracetamol helped a lot, but it does take nearly an hour before it is effective. I was probably asleep before then, but they still seemed to improve my sleep.

  One of last night's oddities is that I woke up with a dry mouth now and then, and i was swigging a lot of water to rehydrate my mouth if nothing else. Despite that I seemed to pee very little during the night. it was all a little odd. maybe I sweated some of that water out. I do recall turning my pillow around once to avoid a damp patch. I'm going to take a chance by saying I seemed to get a pretty fair night's sleep last night, but then again I do remember dreaming a lot.

  One dream was just a visit to a pub with a friend (whose name I can't recall). Of course when I say "just a visit" that is only true as a simple description. In reality lots of odd things happened on the way, including drinking from a glass or lager looking beer that I had difficulty emptying. Even a big gulp hardly lowered the level in the glass. It was difficult emptying the glass before we went in what presumably a second pub (on the assumption that I got the beer from a pub before the dream got going).

  Another dream was a re-visit to work at a site that was originally a big factory, but subdivided into smaller workshops. The dream kicked off with me and a workmate going out to find who had stolen the cooker from "our" kitchen. We found it in another workshop, having seen it through a window. The boss there said it had been fitted by the sites "facilities management", and that he would take it up, along with my boss, with them to sort it all out.

  Meanwhile, as we walked back to our workshop we passed an office style cupboard seemingly dumped outside a workshop with it's door left open. It was all dusty inside, and some stuff had fallen out onto the path and looked pretty mucky. I noticed some pink, iridescent embossing tape, and because I still have a Dymo embossing printer I decided to grab a couple of reels of this extremely rare (and almost certainly non existent in the real world) embossing tape. At that point someone came out of the workshop and asked why I was stealing it. He then said I could buy two reels for £50. I told him, with great emphasis, that I didn't need it that badly. I woke up before we could negotiate further.

  I was very surprised, almost stunned, when I checked my blood glucose reading this morning. After all i ate, and partly what I ate, I was expecting a complete disaster. My old meter gave a rather fantastic reading of just 7.6mmol/l, and the new meter gave a still good, but not quite so low 8.2mmol/l. Sometimes I think I don't know anything about controlling my blood glucose level !

  I feel a semi lazy day coming on. It is still dry, but it is definitely very dull outside now, and rain does seem quite probable. A refresh of the weather forecast web site now shows that the BBC think it should be raining now and for the next two hours, but only light rain. The Met Office just want to get it all over at once, and say heavy rain only for 11am. No matter what actually happens, it does not seem like a good morning to consider outdoor activities. It is probable that it will be dry, and maybe even sunny at 3pm when I could be seeing an outdoor gig in Beckenham Place Park, but I can't go to that because I am expecting Jodie to come over for some beer drinking this afternoon.