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  The temperature rise last night was because we have been hit by warm and wet air again. There was rain in the night, and it is raining this morning. The day started at 10° C, and should rise to 12° C in the afternoon. Unfortunately it seems it will rain all day long. The fact that only light rain is forecast brings no cheer on a very wet and dull morning. To add to the misey there will be some very strong gust of wind today. Tomorrow may start at 8° C, and it should be dry. There may even be some sunny spells and sunshine until mid afternoon when it will cloud over. By 3pm it may start to rain, and the rest of the day will be mostly wet.

  Yesterday was another bad day overall, but there were a few good things too. The worst thing was the old, old story of waiting in, on high alert, for an Amazon delivery. Fortunately, in the last 90 minutes or so they started providing more useful information.

  There was no panic in the morning. I was able to have my breakfast, and write 2,179 words before having a rest, although not a snooze because other things might happen (but didn't). It was 10:25am when I was notified that I would be getting an Amazon delivery. That should have given me plenty of time to have a shower, and maybe even wash my hair. I had also hoped that I might be able to pop out and get a few things from Tesco.

  One reason I thought I might have less time to do stuff was that I thought I was expecting a visit from Patricia. I knew she would be coming up from the south-west coast, and that her journey could take over three hours, but she could have started early in the morning. That was unlikely, put still a possibility I had to take into account. For several hours I could not do anything - mostly from fear of missing my Amazon delivery.

  It got to about midday and had not heard anything from Patricia, but I did start getting tracking estimated from Amazon. It initially said that the earliest my delivery would be was 12:45pm. That gave me confidence that I could have a quick shower - essential if Patricia visited, and desirable if I did get to go shopping in Tesco. I had my shower, and felt better for it, but there was other stuff I didn't do. With hindsight I could have done some washing up to clear the kitchen sink of stuff.

 When I had finished showering I checked Amazon again, and it showed my estimated delivery time had slipped by an hour. I opened my bedroom door so I would be able to hear the doorbell easier, and I then laid on my bed and started reading. It seemed like I still had time for a snooze if it was not too long, and I probably snoozed for 15 or 20 minutes. I then checked Amazon again and this time they showed a map with me and the delivery van marked on it. I think it said the driver was 5 or 6 stops away. It was not the greatest entertainment, but I watched that animated map until it said teh driver was one stop away, and then I started looking out the window.

  When my box arrived it was a bit of an anti-climax. I knew from the beginning it would not be terribly exciting. It was a box containing 30 (or maybe 40) packets of instant noodles. When it finally arrived I found it was different to what I thought I was getting. I thought the description was "all flavours including tomato", but it was actually "all flavours are tomato". It was bad English because it had some ambiguity.

  A whole box of the same flavour should not have been so bad because I usually bought at least 4 packets when I saw them in the shops, but there was still a problem. With hindsight I realised that Koka did not make the tomato flavoured instant noodles that I really like. I think it is probably the Polish make, Amino. In a week or two I will see if I can find any variety boxes of Amino instant noodles at Amazon, but I have a feeling they only off a few specific flavours.

  The tomato flavour (or maybe that should be tomato smell - they have a stronger smell, but not far from bland taste) instant noodles will not go to waste. I had two packs of them for my late lunch yesterday (and one pack for my breakfast this morning).

  Once I had eaten I had a short lie down, and then I thought I had better contact Patricia, and also Jodie. Patricia apologised that she was really tired after a very hectic Friday assisting her sister in a court case. She has tickets booked for tomorrow to fly back to Argentina, and it is unlikely I'll see he before she flys out.

  The other person of interest was Jodie. I knew she would not be joining for beer tasting either yesterday, this coming Thursday, or possibly both because she was going to a gig or two. She replied it would be both days. That left me with nothing to look forward to for the rest of the day. In theory I had just enough time left to dash out to Tesco, but I could not be bothered.

  The rest of my day was a very lazy time. The one thing I did accomplish was re-washing a towel that should have been clean but went stinky as soon as it got damp. I washed it with some disinfectant and detergent the previous day, and gave it loads of rinses yesterday. I had the fan heater blowing into the bathroom to stop it being chilly, and to help keep it dry. I hung that towel on the shower curtain rail, and it dried nicely on that, although it did take 5 or more hours if I recall correctly. I hope the disinfectant killed any smelly bacteria this time (I have another towel that needs the same treatment that I may start today after I have had a shower).

  The only significant thing for the rest of yesterday was dinner, and I can't remember what it was that I had. I do remember that it finished with some cake, but that is all. It most likely included a hot meal, but as to what it was is a complete mystery.

  I watched a fair bit of TV late yesterday afternoon and evening. A lot of it was another batch of back to back Simpsons episodes. I do remember I was in bed very soon after 9pm, and I spent some time reading, but not a lot. I had found there were a couple of books I had not read for some time, and because one of them could be read in small amounts, I started reading that instead of the 800 page book I have been reading for a week or two.

  Interrupting one book for another is probably stupid, but there was too much temptation. For the last week or so I have been dipping into a web page of quotes from Douglas Adams - author of The Hitchhikers Guide to The galaxy. There are over 100 pages, and I got as far as page 52. If your curious you can start at page 1 - https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/4.Douglas_Adams?page=1

  The book I couldn't resist reading was "The Salmon Of Doubt". It was a posthumous book after Douglas Adams death, and it is made up of some short stories, letters, ideas for books, incomplete or complete chapters for a possible new books, and all were found on his computer after his death. His wife, friends and publishers thought it would be a crime to let the work go to waste. I can barely remember reading it, and with most chapters being very short, it seemed ideal to start to re-acquaint myself with it again,

  One other thing I did before I went to bed (that I had sort of forgotten until I suddenly noticed the empty bottles) was to have a couple of bottles of beer. They were beers that I am sure jodie would not be too interested in. One was Hook Norton "Hookey Mild" a 2.8% mild ale. I have tasted better milds before, bit it was pretty nice. The other was Samuel Smiths "Winter Welcome Ale", (6%). It was nice-ish, but not as nice as I thought it would be. I did have a third bottle on standby - Gordon's Scotch Ale (8%), but I decided to leave that for another time.

  I think it was as early as 9.30pm when I turned the light out. I seemed to fall asleep very quickly, but that may not be true. I do know at some time I was half asleep, and half awake. I was certainly listening to music that was from my one thousand track playlist playing on my PC all night. One song, and I think it might have been an old reggae song, inspired an interesting idea.

  It was Michaelangelo who said 'Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.'. What I sort of seemed to discover was that there is a similar rule for music (although as I write this I wonder what I was smoking because in the cold light of day the comparison is tenuous as is the very idea). What I thought last night, laying in the dark, with the music down low, was that it was the bass line that drew the words, or uncovered the words of the song.

  The rest of my night was less inspiring. I do remember getting up to pee a few times, and I thought that was probably more to do with the beer than my blood glucose being high because of anything I ate. In fact my blood glucose was quite good this morning. My weigh was less good. Another big pee would have turned a small loss into a better  loss. This morning I seemed to have last 100gm. It could possibly have been more because now, several hours too late, it feels like I have a decent poo on it's way ! (Err, I've just been and it wasn't that much).

  As I say, my blood glucose is pretty good this morning. Both the Contour meter, and the GlucoFix meter read 6.9mmol/l. Any reading starting with a 6 is very good, The GlucoRX meter read an even better 6.2mmol/l. That gives an average of all three of 6.67mmol/l. The average for the whole of last month was 7.16mmol/l. It seems the Mounjaro is working well - but only in keeping my blood glucose nice and low.

  I thought I mentioned yesterday, but I've had a text message from my doctors that gave some results of my recent blood tests. It said my=Renal profile was "normal", and that sounds good enough to me. Likewise, my Cholesterol was also normal. The mystery one was my "bone profile". It seems there are markers in the blood that can show possible problems. My result was "normal" and that also sounds quite good enough.

  This morning I had another message asking that I book a telephone consultation with a doctor to discuss my blood tests results. It is evidently about nothing that important because I followed the provided link, and I have booked a call from someone between 8.3am and 1pm on the 23rd of this month !

  Apart from showering, probably washing my hair, and starting to wash another smelly towel, and then going shopping in Tesco, I have nothing more to do today except be very lazy, and do lots of reading, some snoozing, lunch and dinner, some TV and maybe an early night.








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