09:09 BST
  Yesterday started bright, but by midday, perhaps a little earlier, the sky became full of dark looking clouds, and my weather stations said it would rain. There was no rain, and twords the end of the afternoon it brightened up a bit. The afternoon temperature still reached the forecast 17° C but under the grey sky it felt colder.
  My thermometers agreed that today started closer to 10° C that the forecast temperature of 12° C. It was brighter earlier, but now the sky is filled with clouds, and maybe some could drop some drizzle. My weather stations still predict rain, and although none is shown on the weather chart (above) it does show 15 to 20% chance of rain between 3pm and 7pm. The afternoon may reach just 16° C. Tomorrow could start as low as 9° C., thanks to clear skies, but those clear skies could mean that tomorrow may be very sunny, and the temperature should reach 18° C. for a few hours in the sunny afternoon.
   

   Yesterday was an "interesting" day. As reported yesterday I had my first Mounjaro injection. I mentioned that I could not find a setting on the injector that definitely said "1". I was following the illustrated instructions that came with the pen, but in many ways they seemed rather vague. It was probably because they only had room for tiny illustrations. It is a shame they didn't say looked on the outside of the box for a big clue as to where "1" is to be found on the rotary dosage selector. It is a long way from the end, and if I had turned the selector a few more rotations it would have come into view.

  I only notice the picture on the box, and realised it was a great clue, later in the afternoon. I then realised that the dose I had given myself could have been a tenth of the correct does. It makes me wonder why it seemed to have some negative effects, and no positive effects. As I wrote yesterday, I began to feel something like light headed. It was only mild, and I had no fears I would fall over or anything.

  I also wrote that I wondered if it was the low blood sugar that is a possible side effect. I checked my blood glucose and found it was not low but almost dangerously high. It does make me worried what I will feel like when I take the full dose - which I may do tomorrow (Monday). One thing that little dose didn't do was to affect my desire to eat, but fortunately I still had my routine to fall back on, and I did eat as carefully as I have been doing for most days in the last few months.

  When I first discovered my blood glucose had gone extra high, for no obvious reason, the sun was shining, and I was thinking I ought to go out for a walk, maybe just to Ladywell and back, in the sunshine. By the time I had had a shower, and was ready to go out the sun was hidden behind thick clouds. It would be no fun walking under that leaden grey sky. It actually stayed dry, but the way it looked it could have ended up with a thunderstorm !

  I guess I was still feeling a bit odd after my tenth sized dose of Mounjaro (or was it something else, or even imagined ?), and that was the final nail in the coffin of going out (but it was only a small nail compared to the look of those clouds). That left me with little to do, or maybe I should say, nothing to do that appealed to me. One thing I decided I could do, and would do anyway, was to look at the box that the Mounjaro pen came in, and learn what my mistake was.

  One thing I tried to do was to convince myself that I didn't feel hungry, and should not have anything for lunch. I failed at that, and I did have two small packets of instant noodles for lunch instead of breakfast. By then my blood glucose did seem to have dropped a lot - although I only checked it with one single meter - the new GlucoFix meter that is often kinder than the other two (although this morning it gave the highest reading).

  I suppose I was feeling a bit depressed in the afternoon, although at the time I would not have described it as such. It definitely had no get up and go, and I decided to try and sleep through the afternoon. That not only didn't happen, but I don't think I even managed a 5 minute snooze. I spent time just laying on my bed with my eyes closed, and than I did a lot of reading from my newest book - Harlan Ellison's "Greatest Hits" - a collection of his best short stories.

  As I have already mentioned, I find his style of writing to be not to my taste, although some of his stories have an interesting plot/story. I am sure it is not the case, but yesterday I wondered if a lot of the short stories I have read from the book so far might have been inspired by LSD or some other drug. They can be very weird reading !

  One thing I did do yesterday afternoon was a bit of washing up. After the last lot built up to a pile, I thought I would try and keep on top of it on this occasion (and maybe because I was bored and had nothing better to do). Another thing I did partly because I was bored, and partly out of curiosity, was to have a snack in the middle of the afternoon. It should have been mostly safe-ish. It was rice crackers and slices of one of my new Welsh cheeses. The cheese was basically a cheddar with mustard leeks in it. It was nice, but only as nice as ordinary cheddar.

  Being as yesterday was a Saturday, all the TV schedules were all over the place. Towards the end of the afternoon I started watching TV. There was not much to choose from but some old Simpsons episodes, but I think there was something else that I watched for a bit, but evidently it made no impression on me. At 6pm I went to watch the BBC news, but found a womens rugby match on instead. The news would not be until 6.35pm (if I recall correctly).

  I saw no reason to not eat pretty normally yesterday. "Normal" usually means some small weight loss most days. I can, and do lose weight without resorting to Mounjaro. For my dinner I had a pulled beef pasta dish using a past that starts with tag.....and I can't remember the rest of the word (or pronounce it properly - which is why I can't spell it). I am not a great fan of pasta, but it was still an enjoyable dish.

  One thing I almost forgot was another snack. I can't remember when I had it yesterday, but it was a medium sized bag of vegetable crisps. Among those vegetables was beetroot. After cooking it seems to concentrate the purple red colour of the vegetable. It was early evening that I had a pee, and it took all of a second, maybe two, to connect my red coloured pee to those beetroot crisps, and not to some terrible internal haemorrhage !

  The last things I would watch on TV on a weekday would be QI and/or Have I Got News For You. I am sure they were not on last night, but I am sure I did watch something that meant I did not head to bed until around 11pm last night. I don't seem to have any recollection of what that something was. I am not prone to watching TV without seeing it, as I know some do, but maybe that happened last night.

  My bedroom was warm, without being too hot last night, and it didn't take long before I was fast asleep. One the whole I slept really well, but I did wake a few times for fairly big pees. I think it was around 3am when I had a period of insomnia - at least I think I did. I couldn't rule out that I was dreaming I was awake ! I know that I did have a fairly long seeming dream at some time in the early hours.

  That dream is hard to describe because it was full of tiny details, and yet there was no story in it. I dreamed I was in something like a cross between a big warehouse, and something like a supermarket. It was full of old and new electronic parts. One section was glass devices. I do remember picking up, to look at, a tiny video camera tube. Another device seemed like a miniature 6 phase (at least it had 6 anodes) mercury vapour rectifier.

  As far as I can remember, the whole dream was about looking at interesting things, but not taking or buying anything. I can't even remember it having a beginning or an end. I was just there, and that was the beginning and end of it. The only other memorable thing about my night was that I did seem to get up a bit more often than most nights for a pee. That was good in so much as it all reduced my body weight, but it also suggested my blood glucose was higher than ideal.

  The first thing I measure when I got up was my weight. I waited until I had done a second pee before recording my weight. Yesterday I had put on 600gm, but this morning I was 300gm lighter - once again proving that my self invented diet does work - even if not all that well. This morning, after one day back in the light green, I am back to in the light blue of my spreadsheet colour code. I had hoped to be in the dark blue again by now, but I have to be more patient, or more careful about my eating choices, or hope I get the dose right, and the Mounjaro injections start to work for me.

  One thing I did get right, unless the tiny dose of Mounjaro did something useful, is my blood glucose level. This morning it is back down to a good place. The Contour meter read 7.6mmol/l, and although just above my current target (7.5mmol/l), it is very good. The GlucoRX meter read 7.3mmol/l, and that is even better. The new GlucoFix meter read 7.8mmol/l. That is the highest of all three, and usually that meter would show the lowest...or used to... but it is still in the light green on my spreadsheet colour code, and so is still good.

  If all my readings are near enough back to normal tomorrow morning, I don't think I will wait any longer to have my proper, full dose of Mounjaro tomorrow, and see what happens. The only problem may be that today is another Sunday beer tastings session with Jodie, and that makes eating control very hard if we have some of the stronger (and often nicer) beers.

  I do have a cunning plan - even though they have never really worked in the past. My lunch today will be cheese on toast. That is often fairly safe. Before I have drunk too much this afternoon I will start cooking my dinner. The idea being that I will make sensible decisions before I get too drunk. The tricky thing then becomes resisting any snacks.....