Yesterday was yet another of those days that was both good and bad. I guess it was actually mostly good. Once again I was stuck in waiting for a delivery by Amazon. It meant that I was just very lazy all morning.

  Yesterday was one of those rare, but maybe getting less rare recently, when Amazon did provide a rough estimate of when the might deliver my order. I don't trust their estimates, but I reckoned I had time for a shower, but not to wash my hair. Hopefully I'll be doing that today. My order was finally delivered just after 2pm, and that was roughly in the middle of the time estimate.

  My delivery was nothing that exciting. It was some more tapes, in various colours for my Dymo Letratag label printer. They didn't need the inspecting and testing that some things need (or so I think), and so I put them away and started the preparations for a Thursday beer tasting session.  Jodie was first to arrive, and quickly complained that I didn't have any exciting beers in my fridges. She brought a couple of beers with her.

  Of the two beers she brought, one was an almost nice fruit beer, and the other was an incredibly expensive barrel aged, imperial stout that cost her £22 - yes twenty two quid for a 330ml bottle. I will admit it was very nice, but I would only have paid about £6 for it !

  As I have said many times, beer tasting with Jodie can be a tedious process. Yesterday she brought me a copy of The Metro, and so while she ignored me in favour of "doom scrolling" on her mobile phone, I ignored her by reading the paper. A bit later on we were joined by Alan, and then by Michael. That made things much more lively. We had a few nice beers, a few bad beers, and the rest were "OK". We finished at about 7pm.

  While we were drinking I cooked a couple of (microwave) roast sweet potatoes. Had they been large sweet potatoes I Might have had only one, smothered in cheese, and called it dinner. Two small sweet potatoes were even smaller after cooking, and became no more than I light snack. I was prepared for that, and also cooked a beef lasagne ready meal. It was almost nice, but a huge sweet potato with plenty of cheese would have made a nice dinner - possibly healthier too.

  The rest of the evening was the same as most evenings - some TV, reading a book in bed, and then glorious sleep - except it was not that glorious. I think it was around 3am that I was woken up by very painful, but intermittent earache. I think being intermittent made it worse because I would get relaxed, and about to fall asleep again when it would feel like a skewer going into me ear.

  I got up and tried two remedies. One was a couple of Ibuprofen. They may have helped. I also dripped oil into my ear, and maybe that helped too. Together they seemed to help enough that I eventually fell asleep again. It was an hour or two later that I was woken up by a loud click. It sounded like a mouse had been caught in a traditional style mouse trap, but it could have been that because there were not traps down. I think the click was air being released from the other side of the ear drum - just like deep sea divers have to put up with. Whether it was that or not, I never had any more earache after it happened.

  I was woken up an hour or two later because I needed a pee. It also felt like I needed a poo. I find it annoying to have a poo when I should be asleep, but it was worth it, and this morning I can definitely say I have no constipation. I am not sure it helped me in my quest to weigh less.

  This morning, after peeing, and before breakfast, I checked my weight. Unfortunately I seemed to have put on 500gm since yesterday morning. There was better news about my blood glucose. The Mounjaro injections continue to do their stuff, and although my blood glucose was a bit higher than yesterday, it was still very good. This morning's average of all three meters was 6.57mmol/l. Yesterday it was 6.30mmol/l, and so not a lot higher at all.

  I'm not sure how I feel this morning, but that is not unusual. The small rises in my weight and blood glucose are trivial, and would not really effect how I would feel. My blood pressure is good (114/53) but that rarely, if even, affects how I feel. I guess if I feel anything concrete it is that I think I would like a snooze to make up for some lost sleep last night. I do have two intentions today. One is to have a shower and finally wash my hair. The other is to go shopping in Tesco to stock up stuff for my upcoming 4 days of a low fibre diet prior to my colonoscopy. The one fly in the ointment is that I thing that Evri will be delivering my Firewire connected external hard drive I bought from Fleabay. I hope Evri can manage to give me some sort of estimated delivery time for today (but it could arrive tomorrow).