I had an early night last night which was a mistake. It
usually is; I woke feeling full of energy and raring to go at half past eleven.
I did get back to sleep, but not realizing how high up I was in the bed I had a
stretch an hour or so later and clouted my head on the bedroom wall.
I went to the loo at three o’clock and from then on lay
awake pretty much all of the rest of the night until finally giving up and
getting up at seven o’clock.
I had a go on the scales and saw weight had gone on. I’ve a
naïve hope that this is actually muscle from all the exercises I’ve been doing.
Muscle weighs more than blubber… or so I am telling myself.
I had a look at the Internet. It was still there. There
wasn’t much going on really. A couple of people had had birthdays, and my
cousin hadn’t had any more set-to with The Huge-Titted Woman, so all was well.
Mind you I did have a dubious friend request. “Jelena”
has already got a few friends on there already, most of whom look old enough to
know better. This is the first one of these I’ve had this year. I’d thought
that the Facebook Feds had taken a moral stance. Clearly not…
My phone beeped; my banking app has a new feature in which you
can ask for a balance forecast and it will deduct any standing orders and
direct debits that will come out before your wages go in, and you can see just
how much money you have to squander. This was presented as something
revolutionary… I’ve been doing that with Excell spreadsheets for as long as
I’ve had Excel spreadsheets, and on paper certainly as far back as the early
1980s. Doesn’t everyone?
I took the dogs for our walk. As I drove the pundits on the
radio were talking about their recommendations for books to read over the
summer. Mind you when I say “books to read”, someone or other on the
radio was talking about how there is a selection of narrators to choose from,
and how whichever actor is being paid to read the book out will influence many
people’s choices of book. Back in the
day you would read a book yourself; these days someone reads it to you…
We got to the woods; the overnight rain had left them
rather damp. But we had a good walk. Bailey was a tad willful though,
disappearing into thickets a few times. At one point she was gone for nearly
five minutes. A passing normal person asked if I was looking for a small white
dog as she’d just seen one in hot pursuit of a rabbit.
We came home for a wash – the dogs had rather grubby
tummies.
I ran “Daddies’ Little Angel TM” and
Pogo home, and seeing the forecast for a day of rain was again misleading (at
best) I had a look at the garden. I cleaned out the fish pond filters and
thought that the water flow in the big pond wasn’t what it might be. So I took
the pumps apart and found the problem. The pumps were struggling to push water
through as they were full of crud and muck. I’m rather keen on cleaning out the
filters; clearly the pumps need a scrub from time to time. I shall have to
remember that.
I had a spot of lunch, and had another look at the geo-map
and spotted one or two potential targets for the latest “Treasures”,
then went back into the garden where I put together the new support for the
bird feeder.
I was half-way through disassembling the old one when the
rain finally came, so I retreated inside until the rain stopped and did some CPD.
I eventually got the old bird feeder stand apart. The birds
don’t seem to like the new feeder stand.
My delivery from Amazon arrived ten minutes after Amazon
said it would. Last week I bought some dumbbells for my chair workout. I’ve now
got some heavier ones, and I tried them out. They didn’t feel that heavy until
I started thrashing about doing my chair workout with them. This twenty minute
workout is hard work. It must be doing some good as I’m certainly feeling it.
“er indoors TM” boiled up dinner
then went bowling. I put on an episode of “Orange is the New Black” and
did the ironing.
I’ve got to go to work tomorrow…
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