{"id":16766,"date":"2023-03-13T21:19:29","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T21:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=16766"},"modified":"2023-03-13T21:19:31","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T21:19:31","slug":"monday-13th-march-2023-it-was-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=16766","title":{"rendered":"Monday 13th March 2023 &#8211; IT WAS HARD &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; this morning to get out of bed.<\/p>\n<p>Despite going to bed at 22:00 last night as is usual on a Sunday, I couldn&#8217;t go off to sleep. That&#8217;s astonishing really because I&#8217;d had an early start (for a Sunday anyway) and gone all day without falling asleep as well. Anyone (including me) would have expected me to have been stark out by bed time.<\/p>\n<p>But anyway I did actually drop off to sleep at some point because there was a note on my dictaphone about my travels during the night. I was fighting with an overflowing toilet at someone&#8217;s house at some point. It left a trail all the way out of the toilet down the hall to the living room. As soon as I&#8217;d finished I had to dash off and find a mop, a bucket and a few things. I could find a bucket but not a mop. I was hunting around for everything. The owner of the house started to make some kind of sarcastic comments. That really wasn&#8217;t what I needed at that moment so we ended up having a verbal slanging match while I was still trying to find the stuff to clean up.<\/p>\n<p>And when the alarm went off I was actually wandering around somewhere on a different plane but the moment that I awoke it all completely evaporated and I remember nothing whatever about it.<\/p>\n<p>That isn&#8217;t actually all that went on during the night but you really don&#8217;t want to know the rest, especially if you are eating a meal.<\/p>\n<p>First job, once I&#8217;d checked my mails and messages, was to finish off the radio programme.<\/p>\n<p>And that took much longer than it ought to have because what was going to be the final track was actually a track in the middle of the recording instead of right at the end. The musician whom I had in mind didn&#8217;t actually have a track of a realistic size and I had to trawl all over my &#8220;usual sources&#8221; to find one because the artists that I&#8217;m using for this week&#8217;s radio programme are not exactly thick on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>And then it ended up 10 seconds or so short so I had to be imaginative to make it one hour long. But eventually it was finished and I could send it off for broadcast on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>One thing that interrupted me was the nurse coming to give me my injection. He should also have taken a blood test but he forgot and didn&#8217;t bring his equipment so he&#8217;s going to come by tomorrow morning. I hope that i&#8217;ll have the results for my hospital visit on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>And while we&#8217;re on the subject of hospitals &#8230; <em>&#8220;well, one of us is&#8221; &#8211; ed<\/em> &#8230; I had to ring up the hospital at Leuven and tell them that I wasn&#8217;t coming today. As I said the other day, I can&#8217;t keep on going there and back again for no good reason. I have asked them to try to combine my appointments because I can cope with that, but going there for one thing, coming home and then going back a few days later to carry out some meaningless tests is pointless.<\/p>\n<p>Alison was on line too so we had a little chat. It&#8217;s been month since we&#8217;ve seen each other.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the day has been spent on the radio stuff.<\/p>\n<p>First thing was to choose the music for another radio programme in the future and that took a while because I&#8217;m slowly revising the databases that I keep as I come to them. There are ways to make things easier and I need to develop it.<\/p>\n<p>And while I was wandering around I came across another couple of digital soundtracks for albums that I own. These are ones that I have long-since given up hope of finding, not the least because the fire at Universal Studios was devastating, but every now and again something else is rescued.<\/p>\n<p>And then I came across another interesting database that was previously unknown as far as I was aware. It lists the publishing dates of several thousand of the more popular rock albums. That should be of a great deal of use as far as I&#8217;m concerned because it fits in nicely with another idea that I have about my radio programmes.<\/p>\n<p>Tea tonight was a stuffed pepper. And it looks as if I&#8217;ll be OK for a while for peppers because with having bought a bag of 4 small ones on Saturday, I stuck two in the freezer to see how they would work. I gave them a quick check while i was taking stuff out of the freezer and they looked OK.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s another fresh one for next week and then I&#8217;ll try one of the frozen ones to see if it works. And I hope that it does because small peppers don&#8217;t seem to be available individually. There are just the monster-sized ones and not even I could polish one of those off.<\/p>\n<p>So tomorrow I have the nurse coming and then I need to revise for my Welsh lesson. There&#8217;s someone coming to talk to me about showers in the afternoon and then I have the physiotherapist. It&#8217;s going to be &#8220;all go&#8221; tomorrow so I need to be on form.<\/p>\n<p>That calls for an early night.<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-16766 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='16766' data-nonce='59a919cba4' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-16766 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-16766 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='16766' data-nonce='59a919cba4' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Unlike' \/><span class='unlc-16766 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-16766 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; this morning to get out of bed. Despite going to bed at 22:00 last night as is usual on a Sunday, I couldn&#8217;t go off to sleep. That&#8217;s astonishing really because I&#8217;d had an early start (for a Sunday anyway) and gone all day without falling asleep as well. 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