09:07 GMT

  It was raining earlier this morning, but seems to have stopped for now. It might, but probably won't, resume with a thunderstorm. It doesn't feel like thunderstorm weather today, and it is probably just the BBC having another chuckle. I think it is closer to 14° C as I write this, instead of the forecast 13° C. What ever it really is, it seems it could stay constant until sunset when it will slowly fall to 10° C, and then after midnight it may fall to just 9° C. From 6pm it may be dry.  By 6am, tomorrow morning, the temperature may be 10° C. It is forecast as being a very dull day, but the afternoon temperature should reach 14° C. Tomorrow should be mostly dry until 8pm when the rain will initially start as drizzle. It will get a bit heavier, but not much. At midnight tomorrow, the temperature may rise to a slightly warm 15° C !

  Yesterday was one of those days where much of it was sort of bland, and lacked any triggers to hang memories on. I had to double check that I am talking about yesterday, and not some other day, but one obvious memory was a shopping trip to Tesco, but then, apart from lunch, it all went bland again until beer drinking time later in the afternoon.

  After I finished writing yesterday I had a short rest, and then had a shower. Once clean and dressed I went shopping in Tesco. I thought it was cool enough to wear long trousers, but mild enough to not need a coat (although maybe it was a bit marginal). My simplified shopping list was to get more bottles of Diet Coke, and some ready meals for a few future dinners. I also got some plain vanilla ice cream, but forgot to get the cake I had intended to buy.

  My timing was right to find a lot of reduced price sandwiches - but they were not on the reduced price shelf. I found them on a trolley by the sandwich shelves having the reduced price stickers being put on. I think I bought 4 packs and maybe that was a bit excessive....if such a thing is possible. I ended up with quite a weight to carry home....although maybe not as bad as when I have been shopping in Aldi - which is also a longer distance away.

  When I got home I put my shopping away, and then tucked into some of the sandwiches. 2 packs were quite small, and I gave in to my desires and had a third pack. The final big pack I would have as part of my dinner. After the walk home, and then stuff my face with sandwiches, I felt a strong urge to have a lie down. I couldn't get too relaxed, and end up having a long snooze because I had some work to do.

  That work was the usual rush to get all the washing up done, including the beer glasses from last Thursday. That had been rinsed, but a proper wash in hot water seemed necessary. I finished the washing up, and gave the kitched work surfaces a quick wipe. I could then have a better rest because it was still over an hour before about the earliest Jodie might arrive for our beer tasting session.

  I think it was more like 90 minutes before Jodie arrived. Our first beer was not a lager, and Jodie had thought, but something more like an IPA. It was one of those odd beers that was almost perfect, but some unidentified component of it's taste spoiled it. We had more than one beer like that.

  The next beer came from America, and was brewed in a wine growing area, and was also blended like some wines are. It was a very expensive beer that I bought out of curiosity. It cost £12.60, and it was just a 330ml bottle (but it did come in a box like some sort of expensive booze). It was very dark, and had a chocolate taste, but all that perfection was spoiled by a weird after taste. It was almost sickly. Maybe I had over done the sandwiches, and I had a sort of almost too full sort of feeling.

  The beer was from the Firestone brewery. The next beer was also from the same brewery, although it was not one of their "premium" beers. It was not identical, but it was very similar in so many ways. Maybe I enjoyed it just a little more, even if it also left a sort of sickly after taste. Fortunately the next beer was a basic lager type of beer, and it washed away the slightly unpleasant after taste.

  It was when we started that unremarkable beer that Jodie "disappeared" into her phone, and I had no one to talk to. My only recourse was to do the same, although instead of Instagram, or whatever it was Jodie was "doom scrolling" through, I started reading more tech news stories from https://www.theregister.com/.

  I've just noticed the time. Two hours ago, while I was still in the process of getting up I had a message from my friend/penance Lee. He said he had a quick (it never is !!!) urgent question, and could he phone me. I replied yes, but give it an hour. He replied OK. That was two hours ago now. This is typical of Lee. He has no sense of time at all. He will probably call while I am in the shower later - either that or he has managed to answer his own question by doing something simple like using Google.

  Yesterday's beer session was not the greatest, but we did have a few more nice beers even if Jodie had run out of conversation, and was even seeming to ignore me in favour of some videos of a cat  on Instagram. I think it was just after 6pm when Jodie left to get her train to Clock House station, where she would meet Alan around the corner in The Three Hounds beer shop and bar.

  My original plan was to have another ice cream and cake dinner, but I had a better temptation that I found in Tesco earlier. It was a packet of ready to eat BBQ chicken wings. They are curious in so much as not being that wonderful, but being very addictive. I ate the lot as well as the last pack of sandwiches. It all seemed to be not that unhealthy (judged only on sugar and calorie content).

  I ate that dinner while watching some of the news on the BBC News Channel. I also watched an episode of The Simpsons. Before long it was time for QI and Have I Got News For You. The last thing finished at 11pm, and by then I could barely keep my eyes open. It was not long after going to bed that I fell into a deep sleep. Apart from remembering that I got up once or twice (maybe even three times) to go for a pee, I remember almost nothing about my night.

  It was fortunate that I was up, and had been to the toilet when Lee first messaged me or I would have been mildly angry. I had a fairly good pee, and and also a poo on the first visit to the toilet. When I weighed myself it was not looking good, but I went for a second pee and another poo. When I weighed myself again I found I was exactly the same weight as I have been for the last 3 days now.....except.....

  I had eaten breakfast when I went for a third pee and poo. With breakfast to muddle the readings, I can only take a wild guess that if I had not eaten breakfast, and had weighed myself I might have found I had lost 200gm or more since yesterday morning. That would still not be enough to match the lower weight I was before I started taking Mounjaro. I think it is only my own efforts that make it seem like this next higher dose of Mounjaro is finally making me lose some weight, but I feel if I had carried on as I was before I signed up to try Mounjaro, I might have been a kilogram or two lighter now.

  The good thing about Mounjaro (for me) is the very positive effect it has on my blood glucose readings. This morning my readings could have been better, but were still pretty good. The Contour meter read 7.3mmol/l - good but a bit higher than the day before. The GlucoRX meter read 6.9mmol/l. Any reading starting with a six is very good, although, once again, I had a slightly lower reading yesterday. The GlucoFix meter read 7.1mmol/l, and that is slightly less than yesterday (and is also very good). Today's average of all three was 7.1mmol/l - very slightly higher than yesterday's 7.03mmol/l.

  There is no actual sunshine, but it seems to be a bit brighter out, and maybe it has stopped raining. I am not sure if this will influence what I did today or not. About my only plan is to visit Poundstretcher, and/or Poundland. I particularly want a few cheap and cheerful cereal bowls. I won't be using them for cereals for me, but for cat food for fluffy cat. He definitely prefers to eat from a bowl instead of disposable paper plate. One bowl I have tried is a small, square shaped bowl. He could not get his tongue into the corners, and resorted to using a paw to scoop the food out (I was amazed that I had found a flavour that was good enough to resort to that. He definitely prefers fish to turkey. I think he actually does not like the latter.

  Other than that bit of shopping I may hand wash a couple of hand towels. That is about all I can think of. I think I will have plenty of time spare to read some more from my current book, have plenty of snoozes, and very little else. I guess I could force myself to go for a walk in the park, but that would not be fun unless it has definitely stopped raining, and ideally a few sunny spells. From the current look of the sky that seems highly unlikely !








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