Maybe the best bit of the evening was seeing Chain cover a Staus Quo song. I had heard about it, but never seen it. The lead guitar, plus the vocals were covered by Greg, the new guitarist. If your web browser can play it (or right click on it to download for playing in a video player) it was one of two videos I recorded last night. The other was a rather lack lustre cover of The Pretenders "Brass In Pocket". I have a strong suspicion that Jo could not remember all the words (in the right order) and her singing seemed very indistinct at times.

  As has long been my habit, I only stayed until a little while after the end of the first set. A quick check on the trains showed they were still messed up, and so I headed for a bus stop - not the stop by the one I used to get there because I saw the bus go passed there just after I left the pub. I walked down to the main road, and got a bus from there. The bus stop was closer than I thought, although the bus stop for buses coming from Catford, was over the other side of the main road, and a bit more of a walk.

  The first bus, which arrived just three minutes after I got to the bus stop, was a 136, and that would take me to just after the Aldi store. Form there I know it was around a 5 minute walk to home. I walked literally 3 steps before I stopped, and used the stopwatch function on my phone to see just how long it really took.  It took 5 minutes and 35 seconds, and maybe that was just 15 seconds short of when angina would be starting to get painful. I was still very happy to get home. It was 10:27pm when I got home, and that felt quite late enough for me.

  Once I had grabbed a 2 litre bottle of chilled water from the kitchen, I closed up downstairs, and went up to my bedroom where, after closing the curtains, I stripped own to my underpants before getting on the scales. I only had two pints of Guinness while out, and I knew I must have sweated off at least half a pint. I was happy to see that my weight was still nice and low (in comparison to how it was, even if it is still much higher than I desire).

  It must have been getting on for midnight when I had stopped doing odd jobs like transferring pictures and video from my phone, and finally got in bed. I didn't feel I had the time of inclination to copy the photos on my big Nikon D610 camera to my PC. That is a job for later this morning. One excellent things was that when I turned the light off, and turned on my side to go to sleep I felt comfortable with no chest pains. It still seemed to take 10 or 15 minutes before I fell into a nice deep sleep.

  I seemed to sleep fairly well last night. I only remember getting up for a pee about twice, and at least one of those occasions was close to a false alarm. I only remember having one dream, although maybe it was many short dreams all in the same setting. It is annoying I can't seem to recall the exact details, but I seemed to be among people, possibly aliens, whose vocabulary was limited to few words. For instance they seemed to use the same word for liquid, and something solid like a ball or a hap. All I can really remember is some confusion about what they actually meant.

  I felt refreshed enough to get up just after 6am, although a few hours later I am looking for a short rest ! Not peeing much in the night, and very little when I got up strongly suggested I was dehydrated. When I weighed myself I was surprised how low my weight seemed to be. If I could keep it that lower, and then go onto to reduce it from there I would be rather happy, but I know that is not going to happen.

  The other thing about being dehydrated is that it makes my blood glucose readings seem higher than they might be. The Contour meter gave a fair enough reading of 7.6mmol/l. That is actually good, but based on what I remember eating yesterday, and particularly after having dinner so early, I had hoped for a bit better still. The GlucoRX meter was not so good with a reading of 8.2mmol/l, and the Sinocare was almost bad with a reading of 8.6mmol/l. I'll have to make sure I drink lots of water today.....although now the temperature has dropped, and I won't be out in the blazing sun, that may be less important. Incidently, being dehydrated has not affected my blood pressure. This morning it is a still an "optimum" 110/51.

  Only two things are definitely going to happen today. The first should happen fairly soon. It is a delivery of more exotic beers estimated to take place between 10:17 and 11:17am. The second thing is to copy all last night's photos from my big Nikon camera to my PC. I shall then spend possibly a few hours selecting and editing the best pictures. This time, if I can, I am going to try and go for quality instead of quantity. The trouble is that my big Nikon almost always seems to take good pictures, and it is so tempting to use all the good pictures instead of only using the best. Of course that brings up the quest of what is the best ? I have been praised for photos that seem second rate, and ignored for photos that I rated first rate. It is always in the eye of the beholder. I have even seen really crappy mobile phone pictures praised because they have captures a certain moment.

  I have no idea what I will do later. Probably I shall just be very lazy, but there is one gig I could go to tonight. The band is The Nameless, and because it involves Jamie Bull, John Bull's son, it will probably be well lit because John is a proper photographer. It is also possible it may not be terribly crowded because the previous two days weather might have sent many scuttling away to the seaside, although today's weather is not likely to keep them there. The real bummer is that it is not scheduled to start until 9pm, and by then I'll be thinking of bed ! I doubt I will go, but you never know.