… again!
Tonight, I made myself a pretty small meal of a handful of chips, a couple of those little vegan nuggets and a small salad. One of the smallest meals that I’ve made for quite some considerable time. But even so, still about half of it ended up in the bin.
That’s a shame because last night, I was feeling somewhat better despite not having had any tea. I finished my notes off at some kind of reasonable time and was in bed not long afterwards once I’d finished the backing up and the stats, etc.
Now only was I soon asleep, there I stayed until the alarm went off at 06:29, dead to the World and it took me a good few minutes to raise myself to my feet.
In the bathroom, I had a good wash and a shave in case I meet Emilie the Cute Consultant this afternoon, and then went off to take my medication and to have my nice, hot ginger, honey and lemon drink.
Back in here, I had a listen to the dictaphone to find out where I’d been during the night.
And there’s a lot more relevance to this dream than anyone might think at first glance too.
The nurse turned up as usual, with his happy smiling face, and we had a little chat about nothing in particular, and then he cleared off. I made my breakfast, but there was no book to read because the laptop is currently in the office filling in for the defunct office computer.
Back in here, I prepared an order for my online retailer.
Most importantly, give it a few days and I’ll have a new portable computer. I’ve been meaning to change this for quite some time, especially since I started dialysis. I bought it in 2017, not long after I moved here. It has always been quite slow, and I put a new SSD in it a good few years ago, but it’s creaking and groaning. With the price of laptops these days, I reckoned that I may as well treat myself to a new, up-to-date one that will do the job much better than this one while I keep on searching for a supplier for a new office computer. I have a feeling that that might be a long job.
There are a few other bits and pieces on their way too, but nothing exciting. I’m past the stage of excitement these days.
Next task was to sort out the array. I dismantled and salvaged the hard drives from the office computer and fitted the data drive into the array. It needed some … errr … persuasion to fire up, but now it’s all up and running and seems to be working well. Here’s hoping that it keeps on going because I don’t want that to go wrong.
What was surprising was that when I performed a compare of the data drive with the files that I’d transferred over onto the laptop in the past, the laptop was considerably short. So much for all of my careful planning in the past. I shall have to improve my technique somehow and take more care.
My faithful cleaner came along to sort out the anaesthetic on my arm and then I had to wait for the taxi. It was on time, but we had to go to pick up someone else. He kept us waiting, and so we were late again arriving at dialysis.
For once, I was seen quite quickly. I only had to wait around for fifteen minutes before being plugged in, and then everyone left me to it. No-one came to bother me at all, not even a doctor. I spent a very pleasant afternoon trawling through the laptop doing some housekeeping and uninstalling programs that I no longer use. I’ve cleaned up quite a large amount of free space and the computer functions a little better.
Just for once, I was unplugged rapidly too. My taxi was waiting, so I had a quick drive home . I was here before 19:00, and it’s always nice when that happens. The driver even had time to take me through the town centre for once to see what was going on. The lights were still up but they were slowly dismantling the Christmas stalls.
Bck here, my cleaner helped me in and after she left, I made tea. A disappointingly small meal and then only half of it, as I said just now. It looks as if I’m losing my appetite again before I’ve even got it back I did manage some Christmas pudding and custard though, and it’s just as nice as ever.
So right now, I’m off to bed. I’ve already fallen asleep once, and I don’t want to fall asleep again. And a nice early night will do me some good.
But seeing as we have been talking about driving through town … "well, one of us has" – ed … while we were there, a man came out of the chemist’s carrying two small babies.
"What’s going on here?" I asked.
"I’m a condom salesman" he replied
"And these?" I said, pointing to the babies.
"These are this week’s refunds that I’m taking back to the factory."
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