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  Yesterday featured some non stop sunshine in the morning. Rain was forecast for the afternoon, and it did and didn't rain. I am unsure when the rain actually started to fall. It must have been so light that it was invisible, and maybe evaporated off the road before the road looked wet. However.....I can't quite remember when it was, but sometime around 2pm when I was startled by a big clap of thunder. When I looked out the window I saw the road was wet, but the sun was just starting to shine. The rest of the rain were replaced by sunshine and sunny spells. The afternoon temperature reached about the forecast 14° C.    It is nice and sunny as I write this, but by 11am it will cloud over. Unlike yesterday, it should stay dry today. The afternoon could see 15° C, but without even any sunny spells, it may not feel that warm. The cloud will get thicker in the evening, but still no rain is forecast until the early hours of tomorrow. Much of tomorrow could feature light rain or drizzle. The afternoon may still reach 16° C.

  Yesterday was a fairly good day. The most useful thing was doing some laundry (by hand - as usual). I also got some good news, although as I will explain again later, it might not be such good news. I made another online order, and this time it was not from Amazon, or any beer sellers.

  I must admit I did not feel very motivated yesterday, but once I had had some breakfast, and a rest, and possibly a snooze too, i swung into action - which sounds grander than it actually was. The action was to hand wash two t-shirts and five pairs of underpants. One notable thing was that I did the whole job non-stop with no breaks. Of course this is how any small lot of laundry should be done, and hopefully even bigger amounts I will do non stop in the future now my heart has stopped causing any trouble.

  At some point in the afternoon I got a mysterious I got a mysterious text message from DX Freight - a company I have never heard of. They said they had my item, and it should be out for delivery tomorrow (now today). It looked very suspicious, but I had a feeling it might be the new mini oven/grill I ordered - the one that may not be as mini as I thought (23 litre capacity to replace my current mini oven/grill, with the sticky timer, and which I later discovered is only 9 litre capacity.) It is hard to visualise just how much bigger the replacement oven will be. Maybe it will not be as huge as I fear because it is a three dimensional object, and small increases of the height, width and depth will make the capacity bigger. Provided it's width is not a lot bigger then it should fit in without having to do too much work.

  There was also some hopeful good news about another thing I ordered from Amazon. It is a 2TB solid state, 2.5", hard disk. It was originally £105, but that was just before the price of solid state memory went through the roof when I was ll pre-ordered by companies making huge AI data centres. I think the current price has risen from £105 to nearly £300, and I don't think Amazon wants to take the hit of selling it at the old price, although it could be "supply problems".

  I got curious, and checked on Aliexpress - the Chinese equivalent to Amazon. It can be a very dodgy place to buy stuff from because the description of the product doesn't always match the actual product. I found some 2TB solid state drives that said they were for Lenovo, the Chinese company who now manufacture Thinkpads when IBM got bored with doing it (or something like that). In theory these solid state disk drives should be good quality if they are approved spares for Lenovo. The picture suggests they may be made by Samsung, who do make good drives. The important thing is that they were only £71 each, and so I ordered two. The total price, including delivery, was just £149.18. If they are good as hoped for (assuming it is not a false hope) then it is a bargain.

  Incidently, one of the drives will be going into one of my laptops. Two Terabytes of storage will be big enough to make it dual boot. I intend just under half the capacity to be used for an installation of Windows 7. That will be handy for some Windows specific hardware or software. The other half of the disk will be used for Linux - my usual operating system.

  Initially I was careful about what I ate yesterday. I didn't want to eat anything that might trigger a part two of "the runs" I had in the morning. The trouble was that I did feel very empty after so many visits to the toilet, and even more so after skipping breakfast. My lunch was a couple of soft, deli, roll with ham and mustard, plus a very generous spread of butter on the rolls. They were very nice - better than expected, but that might have just been the hinger speaking.

  My dinner probably didn't need to be so simple, and in one respect it wasn't. I had two lots of instant noodles, and I was playing with faire because both were spicy enough to potentially irritate my gut. I think I topped them off with a chunk of cake.

  Yesterday evening was typical of most of my evenings - dinner while watching the BBC news at 6pm, and then some selected TV programmes before going to bed. I find it hard to remember what and when, but I think I went to bed at around 10pm. I read in bed, but before I did that I weighed myself. I must have misread the scales somehow because I seemed to be 2kg lighter than I was when I got up this morning. I am not aware of eating anything in the night, even in my dreams, so where I gained the 2kg from is a mystery. Maybe in the dim light I mistook a 5 for a 3 or something.

  I think I slept OK last night. I know I got up at least twice to pee, and at some time in the small hours of this morning I seemed to need to have a poo, but nothing actually happened apart from a loud fart. Last night was another night where I knew I had at least one dream, but it seems any memory of the dream(s) is just out of reach.

  I seemed to be woken up by my phone chiming, but maybe that was a tint bit of dream that I do remember because there was no evidence that my main phone, or my spare phone had received any messages. Once out of bed I almost headed for the toilet, but once again i only passed a bit of wind, although I did have a moderately big pee. As noted above, I had hoped that I might have lost 2kg. On reflection that was a ridiculous idea. It seems I actually gained 600gm. I know that could only happen because of what I ate yesterday, but it doesn't feel like I ate anything out of the ordinary. Of course I have to remember that when I weighed myself yesterday I had just finished multiple visits to the toilet, and seemingly emptying my entire digestive tract.

  There is better news about my blood glucose. I would have guessed it would be a bit high after what I ate yesterday, but it was quite good. The average of all three readings was 7.4mmol/l, and that is one of my lower readings this month. The individual readings were rather strange, and I can't explain why. The worst reading was 8.1mmol/l on the Bayer Contour meter. The reading closest to the average was 7.5mmol/l, and that was on the GlucoFix Sensor meter. The really odd one was the Nexus GlucoRX meter. That read a very nice low figure of 6.6mmol/l. That is three quite different readings, and all from the same finger prick bead of blood. I would expect that all three readings would be identical, but while they are often close, it is very rare for all of them to be even close to identical.

  Part of my day is now fixed. I have been informed to expect my new mini oven/grill to be delivered between 12:19 and 14:19. I should have time for a quick shower - unless I end up having a snooze - which quite often happens once I have finished writing. Later today I may go to Tesco or Aldi - probably Aldi if I do go out shopping today. Other than that ?????
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