There was rain during the night because the road looked very wet, but it doesn't seem to be raining now. The sun is not high enough in the sky yet, but it does seem we will get the forecast sunny spells once it has cleared the roofs of nearby houses. Light rain may start at 11am, and the afternoon is forecast to feature heavy rain until 4pm (maybe with a break at 2pm). At midday the temperature may briefly peak at 12° C, but most of the day will be cooler. This evening should be dry. Tomorrow could be cold, 8° C, and very grey, but at the moment only light rain at 10am appears in the current forecast.

   I guess one important achievement gave yesterday a rosy feel. In reality it was a slightly disappointing day. Apart from some stuff in the kitchen, washing up, and cooking, I had only one thing to show that I did do something yesterday. The something was getting the iMac back into a usable state.

  To recap: I had done a fresh, all Apple software install on the iMac, but the machine is too old for newer versions of OSX that allow things like browsing encrypted, aka "https" web sites, and although it seems it might be possible to force a slightly newer version onto it, I opted to erase everything, and go back to Linux. That installed and worked fine while it was working, but the install had messed up the boot loader, and it couldn't boot.

  Yesterday, and the day before, I tried various ways of trying to get the boot loader installed and working. I finally gave up, and started again from fresh. That worked, although I keep getting a warning that the boot partition is too small. It is only a guess, with nothing to back it up, but it may be that some data may be stored in the boot partition related to sleep or hibernate modes. I use neither, and so it all seems to work despite the warnings.

  It should be possible to expand the boot partition by shrinking the root partition by as little as 100mB, but I am not going to do that until Jodie, and hopefully Alan, have seen it working. Not only that, but I have become slightly bored with it, and I am going to take a rest from the iMac, and just use it as it is for now.

	I did do a very small amount of work that has a visible outcome. It was some simple photo editing, and here is the result - pictures of all but one of the pump clips of the beers I drank in The Star And Garter pub in Bromley when I met Jodie and Alan after Jo's solo gig in Ye Olde Whyte Lyon.   The first four beers were not very strong, and in two cases particularly weak. Then I hit the heavy stuff !  The last three beers were dark beers, with a chocolately taste, and it was very tempting to have more, but I was sensible and left it there.   There was one more beer I had made by Verdant, and names "The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of". It was fairly strong, but very cloudy, and sour, but sort of pleasantly fruity. That was 8 half pints in all, and so not a heavy session even if it looks it.

  Two things could have happened yesterday. The first was a visit from that nice man from DPD bringing me another box of beers. That didn't happen. The other non happening was a visit from Jodie, and possibly Alan. On Sunday evening Alan suggested it could have been yesterday or maybe today. He has an Ebay purchase to pick up near here, and so maybe they will pop in today.

  The cookery I reported doing in the kitchen was not only a small plate of oven chips for lunch, but a lamb with leek and red cabbage stew for my dinner. I had that dinner during the start of Star Trek: Enterprise, the second of my usual three Star Treks in the evening. It was a good episode, and a good dinner. Star Trek: Voyager was the sort of episode that would have got Michael foaming at the mouth. His beloved Captain Janeway spent a lot of the episode roaming around the starship in a singlet and trousers. It did nothing for me !

  It seems to now be a habit to watch other stuff on TV, usually something like QI (as per last night), and not go to bed until gone 10pm. I read in bed for about half an hour. At 11pm I was still awake wondering if I would even get to sleep. It is only a guess, but at 11.05pm I was fast asleep. It was one of those nights that seemed like it might have been bad, but was probably quite good.

  I can recall several periods of insomnia, but I think both times they were after going for a pee. Both seemed as if they would never end, but I strongly suspect that the reality was that they barely lasted 5 or 10 minutes. Both occasions, plus one that didn't involve going for a pee, were at least part caused by problems with temperature. For the first 4 (maybe) hours of sleep I had the heater off.

   The room temperature dropped a fair bit in the night, and after going to the cold bathroom, I felt particularly cold until I got under the duvet. Then, initially, I felt too hot, but it was too cold not to be under the duvet. It took 5 or more minutes to acclimatise. I think it was almost 4am when I turned the heater on, but as I realised when I finally got up, it was only on half power. That made it almost warm enough, but half an hour on full blast made my bedroom much more comfortable.

  There is very little I can say about my dreams. I seemed to have a couple set at the seaside, but I can't remember enough details to describe them. So on to my eternal blood glucose readings. For some reason it was a very mixed bag, and that was particularly odd when the finger prick I did seemed to very easily produce a very big blob of blood - easily enough for three measurements.

  The Contour meter read 8.2mmol/l, and that was good, and perhaps the sort of reading I was expecting. The GlucoRX meter read just 6.8mmol/l. That would be excellent if it were true. The Sino Care meter hedged it's bets and gave a reading of 7.9mmol/l. So that was good, better and even better, and I have no idea which was accurate. I guess average of all three was 7.63mmol/l, and that is a pretty good reading.

  One part of today is now set in stone (I hope) I have just had a message to say my last box of beers (for this year) will be delivered between 13.29pm and 14.29pm. In practice it could 5 or 10 minutes earlier than the earliest time. I shall be following the online tracker from about 1pm. They didn't come yesterday, and so it is likely, albeit not definite, that Jodie and Alan will drop by for a beer this afternoon. As I think I mentioned yesterday, Alan says he will be dumping another Mac computer on me for my delight - although I have no idea what I can use it for. Using the iMac was easy (barring some software difficulties) because it is an all in one PC with a nice big screen. The Mac that may arrive today is (I think) just an ordinary desk top tower type of computer, and will need a display.