My CPAP machine helps me
sleep by pushing more air through airways which are being
consistently blocked by nasal polyps. However for it to work there
needs to be *some* space for the air to pass through.
Consequently when I have nights like last night when the insides of
my sinuses are so swollen that they hurt there are no air spaces and
so the CPAP thing can't help me.
Despite an evening's
heavy lifting yesterday I didn't sleep at all well last night. I was
loading laundry into the washing machine at 4am, and pegging it on
the line shortly after 6am.
As I drove to work there
was the usual sort of drivel on the radio. The Member of Parliament
for Clacton has resigned and has joined UKIP. Then the pundits
revealed that a lot more Con-Servative MPs are
getting ready to jump ship and join UKIP as well. All apparently
after having been wined and dined by some wealthy businessman. I
can't help but wonder how our political system can possibly claim to
be "democratic" when clearly those with money are
calling the shots.
There was also talk of an
"art installation" on Folkestone's Golden Sands. I
didn't know that Folkestone had any "Golden Sands".
Apparently someone else with more money than sense had buried
lumps of gold (real gold; each lump worth hundreds of pounds)
in the sand on Folkestone beach so that us proles would go out and
dig them up. The deal is that if you dig up some gold you get to keep
it, and by 8am this morning there were already hundreds of people on
that small beach; digging away like things possessed.
Personally I feel rather
strongly that if people have got money to burn they should waste it
on burying gold on the beach rather than trying to influence elected
politicians.
I popped into Morrisons
on the way to work. I keep griping about that place, but it is
conveniently placed on my morning's drive. A couple of days I
mentioned that they weren't selling their bogroll at the advertised
price. They were doing the same today with doughnuts. Billed at £1.35
for two packs, at the till they charged me £1.00 for two packs. So I
got lots, then as I was walking out of the shop I mentioned their
pricing discrepancies to a spotty oik in a suit, and as he blustered
I smiled and kept going.
I bought a load of cakes
for the people at work today; I'm on holiday next week, and next
Monday is the third anniversary of my transfer to working at
Canterbury. I thought we all deserved cakes to mark the occasion.
Once at work I did my
bit. In retrospect I wonder if I shouldn't have given work a miss
today and taken a day off sick. I'd not slept well, my swollen
sinuses were hurting, I ached from all the moving I'd done yesterday,
and I had a nagging headache which lasted all day. Added to which my
right knee developed an odd clicking whenever I walked about.
Things hadn't improved by
the time I left work. Despite the noisy knee I put the lead onto
"Furry Face TM" and we went for
our walk. We got as far as Bowens Field when the phone rang. "er
indoors TM" had locked herself out of the
"er indoors-mobile TM" so we drove
round with the spare key. By the time we got back to finish our walk
time was pushing on so I decided to give astro club a miss. There's
no denying that I wasn't keen on having the meeting in a pub anyway;
but I was feeling seriously grotty this evening.
I spent a quiet evening
in doing some of the ironing and then had an early night. Rather
dull, really...
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