This morning mist was forecast, and earlier in the small hours there was supposed to be fog, but it was clear as a bell when I first peeped out the window soon after sunrise. It is bright and sunny now, and much of the sky looks blue. From 1pm there should be full sunshine (although I haven't noticed any pauses in the sunshine for some time now). The afternoon should reach 21° C, but after darkness fall the temperature will slowly sink to 13° C by 3am tomorrow morning. That may be the lowest temperature tomorrow morning. The rest of tomorrow may be very similar to today (but without the mist and fog - if that ever happened).

  Yesterday was another day when I could not be bothered to be enthused to do anything of note - unless you count finishing reading Isaac Asimov's "Second Foundation".

  The foundation trilogy is a famous set of books and ranks very high in the sci-fi world, but..... The trilogy was originally written as a series of short stories between 1942 and 1952 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_(novel_series)), and maybe in shorter instalments it was a better read. Although I recognise the genius of inventing a whole new science, and writing a story around it, I get quite disappointed every time I read the trilogy.

  It is sort of stodgy, and unless you study it, rather than enjoys it (a bit like Shakespeare in school) you, or maybe I, lose track of the characters, and with that the story just does not flow. Prior to reading the trilogy I read the prequel to the trilogy, and that was written much later in Asimov's career, and I think that was more enjoyable reading. Now I have finished the trilogy I will move on to the two sequel books, and I think they will be more enjoyable as well.

  The other thing I seemed to do yesterday, although once again I have no idea how I did it, was to eat almost sensibly. I did have an afternoon snack of two plums, a nectarine and a small chunk of cheese. I found it odd that the snack seemed rather filling, although maybe it just topped up the pack of three sandwiches I had for lunch. My dinner was an Aldi beef Madras ready meal followed by ice cream and cake. The latter should not have been sensible eating, but somehow were. Incidentally, the beef Madras was not as hot as expected, and it was both nice and nasty. There was some sort of herb added to the curry that I think imparted an odd sort of taste. It was probably more noticeable in burps some time after the meal. They had a sort of engine oil sort of flavour !

  I may as well fast forward to the evening because not a lot happened before. The only thing that happened in the evening was the usual watching TV - a terrible habit I seemed to have grown in to. I think I turned the TV off around 10pm, and then spent the next 20 minutes in bed reading the last pages of the Foundation trilogy.

  Before going further, I have just remembered one important thing I did yesterday afternoon. It was to make double back ups of my main computer's home partition (with all my personal stuff on it), and also two backups of all my photos. The photos are included in my home partition and so I guess I have four copies of them as well as the original on my computer. Once upon a time I would have kept a copy at work so I would have a copy if my house burnt down, but since retiring I have nowhere else to keep a safe copy.

  My sleep was almost OK. It was another night where I had some trouble balancing the temperature of my bedroom so I didn't feel too hot or too cold. It is not exactly economical on heating, but I don't rely on my duvet keeping me warm in a cold room - I have to get out of bed to pee and even to get up in the morning, and these days I can't stand a freezing room. I can remember when I was a kid, getting up in the morning with ice on the inside of the windows !

  I can remember very little about my night. I am sure I had a dream, maybe more than one, but I have no memories of any details. In a similar way, I know I got up to pee at least once in the night, but the memory of that, and maybe another couple of times, is also like a dream with all the details fading away in the first few minutes of getting up.

  The fruit I ate yesterday, and which seemed to make me feel fuller that I expected, did it's work, but only up to a point. When I got up I went for a pee, but didn't poo until I a revisit to the toilet half an hour later. initially I felt quite constipated, but at the right time the smallest effort had things moving very smoothly - it seems I just had to wait until it was ready.

  The slightly surprising thing is that this morning I am 100gm lighter than yesterday morning. I expected to be at least a few hundred grams heavier. My blood glucose level was very slightly higher again, but 8.83mmol/l, the average of the three readings I took, is good enough even if it does not have much wiggle room.

  Today the trains are running the normal Sunday service, and assuming Jodie got back from Finland yesterday, she should be over for a beer tasting session this afternoon. That should be the highlight if the day, but after no booze for about 8 or 9 days now, the other highlight will be opening at least one bottle of mega strong beer whether Jodie wants any or not. Prior to that I think I'll wash my hair and have a shower - there is no washing blocking the use of the bathtub this morning, but there could be tomorrow morning if I start to soak some clothes in detergent after I have had my shower.