08:48 BST

 
  Yesterday was another day didn't have an ideal ending, but it was still fairly good. After my terrible sleep on Wednesday night, it was good that I had nothing that I needed to do yesterday morning, and I could spend the entire morning in glorious 3D laziness - mostly reading and snoozing. After midday I had to start doing stuff.

  One little snippet I was going to mention concerned Wednesday morning. That was the morning I was sort of celebrating my new solid state hard drive working well in my PC. There was just one possible problem. I could hear a high pitched whistle, and I could not work out where it was coming from beyond it seeming to be coming from the corner of my room where my PC is. Could it be from the PC itself ? Some sort of power supply fault that can make some power supplies whistle in their last stages of life.

  The whistle seemed to fade away, and that was good, but still slightly worrying. I did eventually find where the whistle was coming from, and it was very, very silly ! The big clue was when it started again as I picked up a bottle of Diet Coke. It seems that I had not screwed the lid on fully. For some reason this lid needed a bit of extra grunt when screwing it on. I think that I probably picked up the bottle to move it, and that triggered a bit of fizz, and that raised the gas pressure just enough to force the gas through a tiny, tiny gap under the lid, and it gave off a very high pitched whistle. I only realised this when I picked up the bottle to pour myself a glass. Just the slight pressure of hold the bottle triggered the whistle again, and it was now obvious where it was coming from.

  Back to yesterday, and it was almost 1pm before I had a shower, and got dressed, ready to receive visitors. There were a few things in the sink that needed washing. I did that, and wiped down the kitchen work surfaces because I was certain Jodie would be using them when she arrived to prepare her lunch (and snacks for later). That was all I really had to do, and so it was back on my bed reading, and I think I might have had a snooze as well.

  One other thing I did do around this time was to send a message to Michael to remind him we would be drinking later, and he was invited to join us - not that he really should need reminding and inviting - it is a regular thing. It was about 4 hours later that he replied to ask if we were still drinking at 5pm, and I said yes.

  Jodie was semi early again - mainly because she kept her shopping down to just popping into the little supermarket of Catford Bridge. Among the things she had bought in there was a large, purple, artichoke, and of course he had to cook it here, and make a mess of eating it. She cooked the artichoke in the microwave, and cooked a sort of pizza slice in the mini over/grill.

  Just to make a change we had some quite nice beers to start with. Jodie believed both beers were brewed in some Scandinavian country (or possibly even further north), but a closer look at the label showed that were actually brewed in Holland. The confusion was that the cans said "Rock City", and that is somewhere in Finland (I think). In fact it was the Rock City brewery in Holland, and that was probably why it tasted so good !

  Michael turned up just after 5pm, and he was as gloomy as ever. Except when he goes home to sleep, he is still spending every day at the nursing home where his dementia suffering wife is now living. I got my first circumstantial proof of one of my theories yesterday. Apparently he told his wife that he had had a message from me about afternoon drinking, and she was apparently very adamant that he should go so he could come here.

  It is my theory that some of the rows they continue to have is because she must feeling like a monkey in am cage, and never gets time for any privacy during the day. I have mentioned this to Michael as gently as I can, and the silly thing is that he almost agrees, but still can't bear to leave her along for more than 5 minutes in case.....of what ? I sometimes feel more sorry for her than I do of him.

  Jodie left at about 6pm to get a bus to Bromley where she was meeting Alan in the Star And Garter - a pub that has huge stocks of weird beers at atrocious prices !  Michael stayed for another half hour until he had to leave so he didn't miss his beloved Captain Janeway of Star Trek: Voyager. I hope he enjoyed it. The best thing about it was that Janeway only played a minor part in last night's episode.

  Yesterday was a day when I was doing my best to eat very carefully after my weight gain, and very high blood glucose readings in the morning. I started with an unusually small breakfast - just a single small packet of instant noodles (I usually have two packets). My lunch, pre-beer buffer, was rice crackers with corned beef and a smear of mustard. It was quite a nice lunch, but maybe I had too many crackers and too much corned beef.

  While I was sober I thought I might manage to have just a single small tub of low sugar and low calorie ice cream. I have done that before, and it worked well as a very light dinner. Although I didn't have enough beer to get noticeably drunk, I did have enough beer to mess with my eating desires. I actually started off my finishing off the rest of the small pack of corned beef, and I had that with the last couple of scoops of potato salad from a small tub I had opened a day or two before.

  After the corned beef I had the small 500ml (?) tub of ice cream. That should have been more than enough, but I ended up having about 6 very thin chocolate covered (on one side) of "no added sugar" oat biscuits. I suspect the catch is that the biscuit has no added sugar, but the chocolate probably does have some sugar in it. The whole thing didn't end up as a calamity, but it did stop me getting very good blood glucose readings this morning.

  Like most recent evening I turned off the TV at 8pm, when Star Trek: Voyager had finished, and then turned it on at 9pm so I could watch and record another new episode from the latest run of The New Avengers (I have no idea when the series was last shown - sometimes it feel like it might have been in the late 1970s !

  When The New Avengers had finished I turned off the TV and went to bed. I had about half a page to read to get to the end of the current chapter. I read that half a page, turned the light out, and turned over to sleep..... Unfortunately, even before I tried to sleep I was burping up the taste of my dinner, and I was getting very mild indigestion/heartburn. Fortunately it was mild enough that two antacid tablets quickly killed it.

  I think I was asleep possibly before 11pm. Overall I slept OK last night, and I even remember one dream, and possibly a bit of another - at least I thought I did, but my mind seems blank for the moment, except for one dream. In the dream I was at some sort of school or college...or at least somewhere with a class room. It may be at a lunch break that we learned that a Russian PC, and laptop maker was going to evicted form the country in 7 days.

  We realised that they would have to sell of any remaining stock cheaply. By pure coincidence, there was a stockist of Russian laptops at the end of the corridor. We went in and managed to buy some quite good spec laptops for just £200 each. Of course we knew that they would probably have hookey versions of Windows on them, and the information booklet described it as something like Windoze.

  There was also the strong possibility that they were riddled with Russian spy-ware. That didn't bother me because I erased the whole operating system, and installed a fresh installation of Linux Mint. That worked perfectly, and I had a nice high performance laptop for just £200 - a bargain !!! I have a feeling the other dream I thought I could remember was some sort of follow on from the first dream, but it seems to have permanently evaporated from my memory.....except for a very vague idea it might have been something to do with being in a pub.

  I got up a tiny bit early early this morning - by a mere 5 or 10 minutes, or at only a few minutes after 6am. I had got up to pee a few times in the night, but I was surprised that when I went to the toilet I didn't pee more than a little trickle. With hindsight it was probably because my attention was more on the rather large poo that seemed to exit with very little effort. About 10 minutes later I was back in the toilet to do the pee I expected to do before.

  After a pee, and poo, I weighed myself. It wasn't great news, but it was OK - my weight, after a small temporary peak, seems to be on it's way down again. It will need some work to get it as low again as it was the morning before yesterday, and a lot of hard work to get it as the one off low on the 13th of this month. That was a rather wonderful exception !

  My blood glucose is back down to "normal", but still not back down to good. The Contour meter read 8.9mmol/l. That is just pushing the upper edge of "OK", and so nothing to get overjoyed about, The GlucoRX meter read 8.4mmol/l, and that is much more satisfactory. The Sinocare meter read 8.7mmol/l - good enough, but not great. Maybe if I had not had the late night "no added sugar" chocolate oat biscuits, I might have got one reading below 8.0mmol/l, and in the sort of area I was hoping for.

  My blood pressure is still in the "Optimum" area this morning, but a bit higher than usual. I think that could be because I expecting a phone call at 10am (14 minutes ago now) from Lee (a person I know) to warn me that he is on the way over to pay me the money he owes me. I wonder what his excuse will be this time ?

  Today I would like to be preoccupied enough to not think about lunch. I had a single, but big bowl of instant noodles for breakfast, and somehow I would like my next meal to be a very low calorie and very low sugar dinner tonight. The sun is out now, but is rather hazy because of thin cloud. It could still be a good day to go out somewhere. I am wondering if I could convince myself to go for a walk in the park. If I stopped often enough, to take photos, I might avoid angina, but I am not sure how to overcome aching legs. I think I can only say I am thinking about it for now.