Yesterday was another of those
days that was both good and bad,
although by the end of the
afternoon I was thinking that
maybe I should say it was bad, but
it had it's moments.
The thing that messed up
yesterday was waiting for a
delivery by Amazon. It was
unusual, but by mid morning they
were estimating a delivery time of
between 11:45am and 3pm. That
meant I dare not have a late
morning shower, or wash my hair,
as I wanted to do. I didn't finish
writing until gone 11am yesterday,
and so there was very little spare
time before I had to go on high
alert waiting for the ring on the
doorbell.
I did lay on my bed reading
after I finished writing. After a
while I felt my eyelids drooping.
I thought it to be a foolish
thing, but I allowed myself to
have a snooze. I had deliberately
left my bedroom door open so I
could more easily hear the
doorbell. I heard it at just gone
1pm, and I raced downstairs to
answer the door, and take my
parcel in.
By then I knew I could not
be bothered to go to my usual
Wednesday lunchtime drink in The
Jolly Farmers (despite writing
yesterday that I would go even if
it was later in the afternoon). My
initial priority was to test what
I had bought from Amazon. The
first thing I found was that it
was exactly what I had ordered,
but it was not what I wanted. It
was indeed a "wireless" keyboard
and mouse, and it worked fine.
I wondered why it came with
a USB dongle with the "wireless"
receiver in it. The answer was
simple - it was not as I wanted, a
Bluetooth device, but had it's own
wireless protocol. The whole
reason I ordered it was that a
Bluetooth connected keyboard could
easily connect to any of my PCs,
or laptops with built in
Bluetooth. I expect to use it
mostly with the iMac in the dining
room where trailing wires can be a
nuisance when mixed with bottles,
cans, and glasses of beer. It will
do that job with ease, although I
was hoping to free up one USB
socket by using the built in
Bluetooth.
Once I realised I could not
be bothered to walk to the pub I
relaxed into lazy mode. In a way
that was a shame because the
weather was quite good for a walk.
There were nice sunny spells, and
it was not too cool. Maybe a bit
too cool for shorts though....or
maybe not. I spent a lot of the
afternoon reading and snoozing,
but I did do one thing that made
me doubt my sanity (but only a
little bit).
One problem with the iMac
in the dining room is that to
change the hard drive it means
taking the LCD display panel out -
very carefully ! There is
no access at the back (apart from
a small hatch for the memory
modules), and the access to
everything else is to take out the
display. That sound far too
precarious, and I would only try
it if the hard disk inside failed.
It seems in good condition, but it
would be better if it were a
bigger hard disk.
One solution is almost
unique to Mac computers. They have
very fast firewire connections,
and can (allegedly) easily boot
off an external firewire connected
external hard disk. Such devices
used to be very expensive, but now
Mac's have settled on high speed
USB-C ports, they seem to be
fairly cheap on the second hand
market. I found a 20GB drive,
which is smaller than desired, on
Ebay for just £20. I am very
dubious about Ebay, but I thought
it was worth Taking a chance for
£20. My hope is that if I open up
the external device I can put a
bigger hard drive in it. The unit
should be delivered by
(unfortunately) Evri on Saturday.
It is already at their parcel
shop, and just needs to be
collected and sent through their
distribution network (hopefully
without being damaged like
whatever they did to the box of
beers I ordered - that Beers Of
Europe kindly replaced and sent by
DHL instead (which arrived the
next day safe and sound).
I can't remember what I had
for lunch, but I think it was
something mostly safe. I do know
what I had for dinner. It was a
pack of ready to cook (or finish
cooking) spare ribs with
microwaved baked sweet potato and
other root vegetables. The root
vegetables, were just parsnips and
carrots, but "roasting" them in
the microwave seemed to work,
except I over cooked them. They
were tasty, but rather chewy. I
had ice cream for dessert.
After the usual fare of
evening TV I went to bed, read for
half an hour, and than fell
asleep. It seemed to be good
sleep, although I do remember
getting up to pee several times
(but that is not really unusual).
I know I had more than one dream,
but I only bits of one dream. It
was set in the TV repair workshop
I once worked in, but there was
one big difference. Out the back
of the place was a big hill that
was said to lead directly to
Lewisham.
To get out the back meant
climbing ladder, and somehow
climbing around the outside of a
staircase. The gaps I had to get
through seemed far too small, and
to do so many hanging over a big
drop. I think I edited that bit of
the dream out, and rejoined the
action at the hill. It was
incredibly steep, but I seemed to
make good progress before waking
up needing a pee brought the dream
to an and.
I seemed to get up a bit
earlier than usual this morning. I
really would have liked to have a
poo, but once again I seem to be
constipated again. I thought the
"roasted" root vegetables would
have plenty of fibre in them, and
that should have been good to keep
things "regular". Evidently not
this morning. Things can only get
worse from Sunday when I go on my
4 day low fibre diet prior to my
colonoscopy.
When I weighed myself I
found to my delight that I had
lost 700gm, and that was almost
without trying. had I "opened my
bowels" this morning I might have
increased that loss by at least
another 100gm. I evidently must
have eaten more carefully than I
realised yesterday. Even my blood
glucose was lower this morning.
The average of all three readings
was 6.3mmol/l - yesterday it was
7.27mmol/l. One reading was just
5.8mmol/l, and that is the sort of
reading a non diabetic might see.
My plans for today are
complicated by waiting for another
Amazon delivery. I hope that this
time I can squeeze in a shower,
and washing my hair. Later this
afternoon I will have company.
Being a Thursday it means another
beer tasting session with Jodie,
and probably Michael. Maybe Mark
or Alan as well. The other thing I
would like to do if there is time
this morning, is go shopping in
Tesco. I feel the need to stock up
on certain low fibre foods for my
4 day low fibre diet. One thing I
can have is cheese and white bread
sandwiches (or maybe rolls may be
nicer). I can also have cooked and
ready slice chicken in sandwiches.
I will also buy some plain vanilla
ice cream. I might get two tubs -
it might be part of my main food
for those 4 days !