I slept well, but having an alarm set I was wide awake far
too early. I got up and once I’d had a shave I had a little weigh-in. I’ve lost
the weight I put on over the holiday of a month ago and am under fifteen stone
again. Weight loss is easy… keeping it off – that’s the tricky bit.
I made toast and started watching another episode of “Orange
is the New Black” then suddenly had an instant weight loss moment.
Fortunately the toilet was close; something had upset my innards. Possibly the
jalapenos in last night’s dinner?
With a couple of minutes spare I had a little look at the
Internet. Yesterday evening I charged off half-way across the county for a
First to Find. I thought I’d been rather clever in solving a geo-puzzle. It turns out a few
friends had come up with the right idea over a week ago, but what appears as a
slash (/) on a windows-based lap-top appears as a hyphen (-) on an Apple-based
one. A subtle difference, but enough to prevent you getting the puzzle solved
properly.
I sent out a birthday wish to an old mate. I can remember
him at Boys Brigade camp telling me that his pal had a gnat bit on his chopper.
How can he now be a squadron leader in the RAF and nearing retirement?
And another old chum who has moved to Australia was posting
to Facebook that he was on his way back home. I didn’t know he’d been back in
the UK; it would have been good to have caught up with him.
I munzed, and got ready for work.
As I headed off to work so my car told me it wanted
more petrol. It does that. So I went to Sainsburys to get some. I should really
have got some last night when I was out on my little geo-mission as petrol was
cheaper in the general vicinity of Ramsgate than it is nearer to home.
Interestingly as I drove last night I went past two petrol stations on opposite
sides of the road whose petrol was up at different prices. Who is going to fill
their car at any price when it is cheaper over the road? Quite literally over
the road?
As I drove up the motorway I lost count of the
amount of vehicles in the "Operation Brock" bit that shouldn't
have been there. Supposedly just for the HGV lorries, there were cars, vans and
cars pulling caravans. Didn't they see the signs telling them to keep right? -
they are clear enough and there's enough of them.
The pundits on the radio were talking their usual
drivel this morning. President Trump has got the hump because the average
American pharmaceutical costs about ten times the price of what it costs
anywhere else in the world. I would have thought that this was a classic
triumph of the capitalism of which America is so proud, but what do I know?
And the Minister for Homelessness has resigned.
It was claimed that she had a house which she was letting, but gave her tenants
formal notice to leave as she was selling the house... and once the tenants
were out she just got more tenants in and charged them a higher rent. Whilst
that's not illegal it is apparently exactly the sort of dodgy thing the
government is supposedly trying to stamp out. Woops.
I got to work and cracked on with the early shift.
There was cake; I didn't have any. Weight doesn't lose itself. But I got out
early. I came home, and as I waited for “er indoors TM” to
finish working I did my twenty-minute chair workout. I think I’m overdoing the
hip stretching as my hips have been playing up lately.
Once she’d finished work we took the dogs down to
Orlestone where we walked for a couple of miles. I mapped the walk with my app,
and with walk mapped, the app asked me if I wanted to join in its marathon
challenge. To complete the challenge I have to walk twenty-six miles between
last Friday (1 August) and the end of September. I’m over a quarter of
the way there already.
Over a dinner of pizza and garlic bread we watched
this week’s episode of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds”. It was rather good…
and the third season is now half-way through…
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