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Trip to the surgery done. My blood pressure seems a little higher than usual, though it came down a bit after a few minutes. Anyway, they want me to monitor it at home and log the results, which means I have to work out where the sphygmomanometer is packed
It turned out they weren't fasting blood tests after allComment
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well, that's sorted BT out. new customer offer £31/m, my offer for same package £48/m. FFS
13 min call, offer to refer to ombudsman, and, - hey presto! new package £31/m.
bunch of towrags.Comment
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Breakfast and lunch, delayed by fasting unnecessarily, was a homemade sausage roll out of the freezer, and then a cup of coffee accompanied by a few fruit shortcake biscuits
And after wasting a bit of time looking for the ancient blood pressure monitor in a few boxes, I gave up and bought a new one off Amazon. It'll probably be more accurate, and it connects to my phone so the figures can be logged by an app I'll never look atComment
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Tea: strips of pork belly cooked slowly in Jack Daniels BBQ sauce and then finished under the grill, with chips. Very tasty because very fattyComment
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The car earlier was a half-timbered Morris Traveller, of the kind used by the Tudors. Taxed until August
And the gold diggers are all a bit betwixt and between at the moment, what with some needing permits for this and others wanting new machinery for that
And then I went to bed and read some more, and now I'm getting an early night. I had an absolutely abysmal night's sleep last night; no weird dreams or anything, it just took me ages to get to sleep and then I kept waking up again. So I'm absolutely knackered and need a decent night tonight, which I'm hoping I'll get because I can hardly keep my eyes open now
Goodnight allComment
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Morning denizens
Well, that was a good, solid night's sleep! My internal clock still isn't fooled by the "seven is the new six" nonsense though
It rained heavily last night, around the time I crashed out, but it's a sunny start out there today. Currently 9°C, likely to get to 14°, the barometers are down some more at 989/997mB, and though the weather app claim's it's windy, it isn't right now. Chance of some rain passing through now and again thoughComment
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Morning all
Bright, cloudy with patches of blue. Dry. Currently 12 degrees ('feels like' 10) with a high of 15 expected. Showers forecast mid afternoon but otherwise a sunny day expected. Barometer down to 1006 mBar.
Yesterday was a bit hectic at work with lots of issues to triage and log, followed by a major issue being reported that has nothing to do with the team I'm in but we've been asked to help (technically I don't do the helping but I am the unofficial team gatekeeper to stop them being swamped with crud). During this time, my laptop did its periodic "I don't do USB" error and I had to switch to using the laptop keyboard and track pad. The latter is disabled when I have a USB mouse/keyboard attached so that meant removing my 'mouse jiggler'. I have now lost said jiggler and it's driving me potty. I bought it way back before they were cool and they've tripled in price since then so I don't want to have to replace it. It's got to be in my office somewhere but I can't see it anywhere.
In other news, HWMBO, his eldest and I all went out for cocktails and dinner to celebrate the eldest's 19th birthday coming up. Lovely evening had but I am very tired this morning. I'm too old for mid week late nights out!Comment
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