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Lunch: nothing yet, as I thought I’d get something when I went shopping. But first I had to wait for the pharmacist to call
They did, a few minutes before the nominal appointment time, and reckoned I should stop taking the new tablets for a week and they’ll call me then to...
And tonight, I read more of Parable of the Sower in which things are getting worse for everybody. Well, not the rich or the big corporations, obviously; just for people
Bit too sunny if anything! As it needed to be done, I betook myself to the GP surgery to get another sample bottle. Then it was back through the park from there and along to the kebab shop; and home. So tea has been kebab and chips, and very nice it was too
It’s another cloudy start, and none the worse for that! Mild enough at 17°C with an expected high of 26°, and the barometers are down a little but still high enough at 1012/1020mB
It’s Viz week so I need to go to Big Sainsbury’s. Therefore,...
Tonight’s book has been Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler, based on a recommendation from somebody on Bluesky. It’s set in a small community near LA starting around 2024, where society is crumbling from the effects of climate change and the greed of the super wealthy, so quite far fetched…...
Tea has been a burger, in a sesame seed bun with ketchup, and chips
This was accompanied by the next episode of Murder 24/7 in which the bloke who stabbed his wife eventually found that changing your story repeatedly is not the best way to handle questioning, though it took a retrial...
The surgery finally contacted me about my request to discuss the side effects of this stuff with a pharmacist, made through the form on their website. They explained that I shouldn’t have used the form on their website as they don’t monitor it; I ought to have phoned, in case it was urgent. I would...
This morning was all meetings: show & tell, followed by our sprint retrospective. But this project is now winding down as the data work I just finished was really the last big bit. So we were able to combine the retro with planning for the next sprint, and...
Some mackerel sky out, along with some slightly thicker cloud, meaning it’s not quite sunny and probably won’t be. It’s 16°C and intends to get to 25°, with the barometers down to 1015/1023mB. It was getting quite breezy last night, but this has dropped off...
Tonight’s viewing was Murder 24/7 on iPlayer, about a bloke who stabbed his wife. Well, he insists he didn’t, and it’s a two-parter so that’s as far as they’d got; but he blew it right at the start of his interview by giving an account that was completely different in every respect to what he’d...
High, hazy cloud is gradually thickening, so it’s expected to be more cloudy than sunny today. It’s 15°C with an expected high of 25° this afternoon, and the barometers are up a tad more at 1017/1025mB
Casting around for something to watch this evening, I remembered that Air Crash Investigation is on Prime (albeit under a different title) so I watched the episode about USAir Flight 1493 which landed on top of SkyWest Airlines Flight 5569 at LA International in 1991, due to a moment of forgetfulness...
I’ve been feeling extremely under the weather today, again. I thought it might be hay fever, but apparently the pollen count is very low at the moment. And that made me realise: two weeks ago, I started feeling really tired all the time, getting headaches,...
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