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 !