Today is going to be a very sunny day, and the temperature should peak at a very nice 17° C.  Tomorrow may see lots of sunny spells, but no non-stop sunshine. The temperature should still rise to a good enough 15° C. After tomorrow we revert to poor and/or nasty weather - cold and grey days, and some days will feature rain !

  Yesterday was a very different day to anything I might have expected. My morning was typical - I wrote 2,593 words here, and then I had a rest. After the rest I was getting myself psyched up to finish the laundry I had almost, but not quite finished the day before, and also looking forward to some lunch. Then the phone rang......

  The caller was the other gas bag I know. I guess I can't blame my old friend Keith because at some parts I seemed to have a lot to say as well - when I could get a word in edgewise. The good bits were interesting, but I could have done without the usual lecture on the state of 5G rollout, and other stuff about mobile phones. I suppose every one needs a hobby, but I think I'll stick to train spotting as an occasional diversion.

  It was passed dinner time (usually around 6pm) before I had to call time on the phone call. By then I was sort of feeling hungry, but I think it was more anticipation of what I would be eating rather than a strong desire for it. My dinner started with one of those chicken tikka samosas I was saying good things about a week or so ago. I munched that, and although I was eating straight from the fridge, and so not at room temperature, which would have been better, it was still delicious.

  The main course of my dinner was a Tesco Lamb Rogan Ghost curry ready meal. The only bad thing about that is that it seemed the amount of rice didn't match the amount of the curry. I could have left nearly a quarter of the rice, but the meal seemed small enough that I did not want to waste a single grain. I followed that with a dessert, and it was a bigger portion than was good for me. It was some vanilla ice cream from a 2 litre tub. It had been in the freezer for weeks, and I had originally started to eat it in quite small portions, but with three quarters gone I just carried on until the tub was empty.

  TV was not terribly good last night. I think I listened to a lot of an Eagles concert on Sky Arts. It was too boring to watch, and some songs were too boring to even listen to. Shame really because they did release several good tunes in their time. I also part watched a documentary about the making of Fleetwood Mac's Rumour album. Sky Arts have shown a lot of Fleetwood Mac recently, and BBC1 has also shown lots just a couple of weeks ago. Last light's documentary just seemed to the same as another recently screened, but it was edited in a different order. Once again I mostly listened to it.

  I was in bed, and reading very soon after 9pm, and I think I was possibly asleep by 9.30pm, but it could have been 10.30pm. I was not really pay much attention to the clock. I seemed to sleep really well, although in the first half of my sleep I was probably up peeing a bit more often than usual because of the high sugar content of the ice cream I ate - and ate later in the evening than I might have done.

  I can only recall one bit of insomnia - if about 15 minutes can really be called insomnia. I would not disagree if anyone said I was probably dreaming that I was awake in bed for a short period of time. I can't seem to remember clearly much about the night. I didn't make measurements, and I didn't keep notes, but I feel I possibly peed a bit more than usual. I can barely even remember dreaming, and definitely no details of any dream.

  I got up at about 6.20am this morning, and of course the first thing I did was to go for a pee. It felt like I was going to poo as well, but like a lot of mornings it was just wind, although I did have a poo later on, albeit not a large one. I have a feeling that even in the night I was thinking that the extra peeing could mean a bit of weight loss, and I was right. A very small amount can be attributed to missing a meal, and any snacks during the day, but most of it was fluid loss. That was also quite good because my left leg was looking a bit puffy from fluid retention. The scales said I lost 900gm in the last 24 hours. If I can manage another 500gm, which is not unusual (although it is rarely permanent) I could see myself visiting a whole number of Kilogrammes I have not seen for years !

  While I lost a lot of weight, be effect of eating the ice cream in the evening could easily be seen in my blood glucose readings. Although having said that, the readings were not super high, but just on the high side of typical. The Contour meter read 8.6mmol/l. and the GlucoRX meter agreed with that figure exactly. The Sinocare meter was typically higher, but 8.9mmol/l is not a lot higher, and is still just about acceptable.

  My blood pressure was still it's typical "Optimum" with a reading of 101/47, although my pulse rate was a bit higher than usual at 58 BPM. I don't think that is of any significance. It may just be that I seem to be running late now when I have things to do - like finishing the laundry that is still in it's final rinse water in the big bucket in the bathtub. One delay this morning is that I found my web server dead when I came to write this. It is suggesting it is not plugged in to AC power, and it has used up the remaining 15 minute of life from the old and decrepit battery. The diagnostic says the power supply is not plugged in, but is still providing full power. I think something very weird is going on in the power monitoring circuits. It could be time to get the replacement server, which I have had ready in kit form for a few years now, finished and turned on.

  One original plan I had to today was to go for a short walk in the sunshine once I have washed my hair, and had a shower. I may still do so if I have the time, but it will have to be a short walk because Jodie will be over for some beer tasting this afternoon. I am fairly certain we will not see Michael today. He knows we do another session on a Sunday, but he usually spends some time with his family on a Sunday.