{"id":20466,"date":"2025-10-01T21:02:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T21:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=20466"},"modified":"2025-10-02T06:29:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T06:29:04","slug":"wednesday-1st-october-2025-have-you-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=20466","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday 1st October 2025 &#8211; HAVE YOU EVER &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; had one of those days where nothing whatever seems to have gone your way? Well, that&#8217;s how it seems to have been today.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, it probably wasn&#8217;t as bad as it could have been, and one or two (but only one or two) things did seem to go according to plan, but the rest of the time seems to have been spent lurching from one disaster to another.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no point complaining about last night, because finishing my notes early but going to bed late seems to be par for the course these days and nothing that I seem to be able to do will ever change that, by the looks of things.<\/p>\n<p>Once in bed though, I was asleep quite quickly but whatever happened after that was the first entry in this catalogue of disasters.<\/p>\n<p>When I awoke, I had a feeling that there was something totally wrong, so I checked the time. Yes, it was actually 07:10 &#8211; some forty minutes after the alarm should have gone off. Did I sleep through the 06:29 alarm and its repeater at 06:33? Or did I forget to set it last night (it should set itself automatically)?<\/p>\n<p>When you consider how loud <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lAacOHkQMzw\" target=\"_blank\">BILLY COTTON&#8217;S RAUCOUS RATTLE<\/a> is, first thing in the morning, it can really only be the latter.<\/p>\n<p>So at that point, I leaped to my feet &#8230; <em>&#8220;well, not exactly&#8221; &#8211; ed<\/em> &#8230; and staggered off into the bathroom, and then into the kitchen for my medication. That was when Bane of Britain found that he had forgotten to take his Vitamin B12 and Vitamin D on Saturday<\/p>\n<p>Back in here, I had a listen to the dictaphone to find out where I&#8217;d been during the night. <\/p>\n<p>I was playing American football last night. We were all lined up on the goal line of our team, and someone threw the ball in from the touchline. It landed almost right at my feet so I fell on it to try to kill the ball. For some reason, the referee didn&#8217;t call the ball dead so I had to struggle to my feet, with two or three of the opposing players clinging on, and tried to move it away from near the goal. I managed to make about three or four paces before the weight pulled me down to the floor. I thought that that was really impressive, given everything else happening at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Throwing in from the touchline in Gridiron? Somehow I&#8217;m confusing my sports here. It might be possible to do so in Rugby Union, I suppose, but then the ball wouldn&#8217;t be called dead in that kind of circumstance anyway.<\/p>\n<p>And then there was something else about being in the kitchen of someone else&#8217;s house. They had a large white dog that was always hungry, looking for its food, so they simply turned the door of the cupboard upside-down so that the dog&#8217;s food was at the top and the dog couldn&#8217;t reach it. After a couple of minutes of sniffing around, the dog suddenly began scratching at the bottom of the cupboard door. It had only worked out where the food was, but it couldn&#8217;t manage to open the door. The old man of the house was quite comfortable with this going on, although everyone else wasn&#8217;t so much. Then this girl appeared. She walked into the kitchen where everyone was sitting. She said something along the lines that she was feeling hungry, but she had to hurry because she was having to go out. The young boy of the family said &#8220;the food&#8217;s off tonight&#8221;. She wondered what he meant. He told her that her father was fed up of the kitchen not actually making a profit so was rather in the way of putting various restrictions on what went on. The dog was amongst the first people to suffer.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s another dream that is totally meaningless as far as I am concerned. Whoever heard of a kitchen making a profit? I wish mine would.<\/p>\n<p>But at least there&#8217;s no mention of anything to do with the American Revolutionary War.<\/p>\n<p>Isabelle the nurse breezed in as usual, full of good humour and bonhomie. She dealt with my legs and feet, and then breezed out as rapidly as she had come. I could then push on with breakfast and <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.fr\/books?id=Ah9y5PWdBvIC&#038;printsec=frontcover&#038;hl=fr&#038;source=gbs_book_other_versions_r&#038;cad=3#v=onepage&#038;q&#038;f=false\" target=\"_blank\">BATTLES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today, we&#8217;re discussing the British attack on Philadelphia where, for once, it&#8217;s the American dilatory tactics that affect the battle, with the British for once pushing on rapidly.<\/p>\n<p>But Henry Carrington&#8217;s writing is sometimes, quite unintentionally amusing because of the stance that he takes. He writes pages about the <strong><em>&#8220;looting, pillaging and plundering undertaken by the British Army&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> but glosses over the <strong><em>&#8220;American Army seeking forced contributions from the local inhabitants&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Back in here, I had to prepare my timetable for the <em>Centre de R\u00e9-education<\/em> and then do one or two other things, but the taxi driver rang me to say that he would be early, so I had to abandon everything in order to make myself ready.<\/p>\n<p>At the <em>Centre de R\u00e9-education<\/em>, my first appointment was with a physiotherapist who gave me a good in-depth examination in order to work out what programme of exercises would do me most good.<\/p>\n<p>The second one was with with someone from the <em>APA<\/em> &#8211; the organisation that deals with autonomy. She wanted to see what I could do and what I needed in order to continue to live alone in my own property.<\/p>\n<p>My next sessions are organised for Friday, so it&#8217;s all going to be really quick.<\/p>\n<p>The taxi was due to come to pick me up at 12:30, but by 13:00 I was still waiting, so I &#8216;phoned them up. Eventually, the car arrived. The driver had had a breakdown &#8230; <em>&#8220;he means &#8216;the car'&#8221; &#8211; ed<\/em> &#8230; and it had taken a while to fix.<\/p>\n<p>Back here, I could hear the computer in the office making strange noises, but I needed a disgusting drink break and to take my midday medication.<\/p>\n<p>My cleaner appeared shortly afterwards and so I went for a shower. It seemed to be easier to climb into the shower today, which made a pleasant change, and it was beautiful. This shower really works and I&#8217;m glad that I had it done.<\/p>\n<p>The washing is building up, due to not being able to use the washing machine until the leak somewhere is fixed, so my cleaner grabbed an armful of clothes to wash in her machine, which was nice.<\/p>\n<p>Back in here, we had the ultimate catastrophe. The computer had ground to a halt and wouldn&#8217;t restart. There was just an error message &#8220;auto-repair cannot fix this drive&#8221;. And that&#8217;s bad news because I&#8217;d only bought this drive in March this year.<\/p>\n<p>This could, in normal circumstances, be considered a calamity but that&#8217;s not so in here.<\/p>\n<p>First of all, I keep the system files on one disk and the data files on a second, so that if one fails, the other one still is accessible.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, it&#8217;s the system disk that has failed, and I still have the previous disk, the one prior to March 2025, that I had put on one side after I&#8217;d taken it out. So having found it again (which is a surprise after the house move when I can&#8217;t find anything at all), I swapped it back and reinstalled it.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s totally disappointing, and it&#8217;s shattered my illusions. The drive that has failed is a 1TB Solid State Drive and because these drives have no moving parts, which, according to their publicity, makes <strong><em>&#8220;them faster, quieter, and more durable. This absence of mechanical components means SSDs are less prone to physical wear and mechanical failure&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Well, so much for the publicity<\/p>\n<p>In the middle of all of this, I crashed out yet again with another one of these catatonic attacks followed by actually slipping off to sleep for twenty minutes. I hope that this isn&#8217;t going to become a regular feature. I&#8217;ll be totally dismayed if it is.<\/p>\n<p>Rosemary rang me later for a little chat. And it was a little chat too &#8211; only one hour long today. One of the subjects of discussion was the semi-feral cat that has adopted her and has rapidly transformed itself into a pampered domestic feline. It makes me even more determined to find a cat that will adopt me.<\/p>\n<p>Tea tonight was a leftover curry and once more, I left food on my plate. This is all rather worrying because it&#8217;s not like me at all and it&#8217;s a sure sign that things aren&#8217;t as they should be. I&#8217;m definitely sickening for something<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;ll worry about that later. Right now, I&#8217;m off to bed ready for dialysis tomorrow, I don&#8217;t think. I&#8217;ve had quite enough of today, thank you very much.<\/p>\n<p>But seeing as we have been talking about my new computer drive  &#8230; <em>&#8220;well, one of us has&#8221; &#8211; ed<\/em> &#8230; it&#8217;s a good job that I can remember my password.<br \/>\nIt takes me back to when my brother first had a computer. 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