
Saturday 22nd December 2018
Bulgarian: Събота 22 декември 2018 г.
00:25hrs. For a complete change, I woke this morning ‘Not’ wanting to recall any of the dreams I’d been having, but bits still insisted on filtering through, possibly the worst nightmare I’ve had all year. Just about every one of my many mistakes, bad judgements, and embarrassing episodes were momentarily relived, and it wasn’t very nice at all!
Anitcepticated the hands, and off to get the Health Checks done.
No surprised in the readings and the sphygmomanometer worked first try. Took the medications with some milk for a change, then made a brew of the Strong Assam tea.
When I closed down the computer yesterday, I did it with the Update & Close option. So, once again I was not too bothered about all the flashing and stuttering that went on. Huh!
So I went to make another brew of tea, and get some mushrooms in the crockpot. I decided it might be a good idea if I made a stew of some sort. I have pork chinks in the fridge I can add to the mushrooms with some vegetables (parsnips, peas, and carrots) later when I get the
Blimey, it still feels nippy in this kitchen, more so than the other rooms?
The thermometer read 9°c – 59°f, it must have got colder overnight. I took this photo to show the lights outside.
Then, as I returned with my mug of tea to the computer: I had to veer off to the wet room, and Porcelain Throne visit three! Oy-Yoy-Yoy!
Back to this lactarium.
Then I realised I had not yet finished off the Friday diary. Nitwit!
I noticed that the temperature had shot up to 64°f, now.
I then got on with the updating and got it sent off to WordPress. Better late, than never!
I sensed that I could feel a draught coming from somewhere, but could not find the source. Is that possible? Here I am in my jammie-bottoms, dressing gown, slippers and with my knitted hat on, the temperature tells me is no longer cold… but that is how I feel. Cold!
As I was taking this photograph out of the light and view-blocking kitchen window with the ledge that sticks out so far I cannot manipulate the camera if I want to make a downward shot, like this one and see the viewer at the same time… what was I saying? Hehe!
It’s little mysteries like this that seem to evade other folks. Like the enigma of noises, I hear but cannot locate? The EIBWBBBs (Evil Ironclad Boll-Weevil black biting beetles) infestation, the most unreliable memory and concentration levels, etc. That seems to have followed me all of my sad, miserable, confused, bewildering, inscrutableness-filled failed life, and are still visiting me now, in my continued route to full decrepitude classification! Hehe! Just thought I’d mention it!
Had a few Highland Shortie biscuits, then fell asleep sat in the computer chair! Oh, dear!
Hours later when I woke again, I went on to Facebooking on the TFZer site.
I deliberately dished up some extra gravy with the concoction of pork and vegetables so I could enjoy dipping the broken off pieces of the gloriously tasting Soughdough baguette. Mmm! Not as tasty as I’d hoped it would be, nut the bread was enjoyed. Gave this one a Flavour Rating of 6/10.
Drained and unbelievably still feeling so tired. I got the fourth summoning to the Porcelain Throne! Another fluid evacuation. It confuses me as to how quickly the innards could have turned things like this and got the fodder through the various inner workings and out, so fast!
Cleaned the pots, and settled mega-early into the £300 second-hand recliner. Viewed the Freeview schedule, and found three films one after the other, that I thought I’d watch.
Got up to do the Health Checks to find that Dizzy Dennis and Shaking Shaun were both active.
Not a really disagreeable day, but the ailments coming and going were a tad irksome. I’ve had far worse ones. Got the head down again, and fell asleep in seconds.
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Sunday 23rd December 2018
Yiddish: זונטיק דעצעמבער 23, 2018
00:15hrs.
The evacuation was a typical Haemorrhoid Harold affair, messy and with great patience needed, my knowing full well a second dollop was brewing to follow on! (Experience told me this, and I was right for once). I did not move from the seat, I dare not! I got the Clarkson book and read a few pages, before the almost-liquid second-coming, came! Hahaha!
- Many cases of narcolepsy are thought to be caused by a lack of the brain chemical hypocretin (also known as orexin), which regulates sleep. This deficiency is thought to result from the immune system mistakenly attacking parts of the brain that produce hypocretin. A number of factors may increase a person’s risk of narcolepsy or cause an autoimmune problem, including:
- anyone elderly, with a high EQ
- an inherited genetic fault
- hormonal changes, including those that occur during puberty or the menopause
major psychological stress - a sudden change in sleep patterns
- an infection, such as swine flu or a streptococcal infection
- having the flu vaccine Pandemrix
Research is yet to confirm whether all of these play a role in narcolepsy.
I just ended up putting it down to my having been such a bundle of energy and working such long hours for so many years, and I’m getting old and paying for it now. Huh!
Got the Health Checks sorted. The flipping Sys and Pulse were high!
While doing this, I had a brave-wave of an idea for a humorous rhyme about this weeks thoughts. Seen above, I added it to this post, as I had already posted it off stand alone this morning.) So I got it made up and sent off. When I create these ode-thoughts, if they do not flow out of the brain, I abandon them. This one shows the state my mind must have been in. Haha!
I went to make another brew of tea, a Strong English Breakfast one this time.
Around 0500hrs I heard some noises again, as I have been doing lately around this time, but th
I opened the light and view-blocking new window in the kitchen and stuck the camera put taking a blind shot of below. The rain had stopped now, and I think that the giant puddle near the compound gate to where Willmott Dixon is building Winwood Court, had gone down a lot.
Cleaned up and medicated things in need of the same, and went on Facebooking.
Sister Jane rang. She gave me a few clandestine verbal telling-offs. (She is brilliant at this, I’d say up to Margaret Thatcher standard!) We chatted as I felt more and more guilty about my Sister-pointed-out failings. Hehehe!
I ate up the small but decent meal and placed the tray on the side chair. I thought I may have difficulty in getting to sleep tonight, with my dropping off for so long in the chair earlier.
I went out into the light and view-blocking, letting in the rain balcony, with its finger trapping window opening mechanism and misted up in the rain glass with gaps between them. The noises lasted a good few minutes, and I began to think they might just be in my head. I could not locate where they were coming from, seemingly all around?
I just realized your temperature readings are 32 when I noticed a 31.9 in there. I had been seeing 37, which is normal, instead of 32. If your temperature is really 32, that means you are running at 89.6º F to 90.1º F instead of 98.6º F. Your body goes into hypothermia when your body temperature falls below 35º C (95ºF). Here’s what the Mayo Clinic has to say about hypothermia: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/hypothermia/symptoms-causes/syc-20352682. Your apartment is as cold inside as we keep our house, which I would think is much to too cold for you.
Good graphics and photos. Too bad Saturday’s meal was not so good. It looked promising with the bread to dip. At least today’s meal was good.
Cheers, Tim.
I’ll mention the temperature to the nurse today. Hopefully, Nurse Nichole.
I might call in the chemist to get a new thermometer and check with them how to use it properly, thanks.
I turned up the heating up a bit before I went out. Thanks, Tim. I’ve just got back in from the blood test and getting some bits I do not need but were on offer. Hehe! I got a thermometer, I couldn’t get one that went in the ear, but got one similar to the old one. Tried them both, and got 33.1° on the new one, and 31.2° on the old one! Threw the used one in the recycle bin!
It looks like it was acting up, then?
Cheers again!
33.1º C is only 91.6º F. Do the nurses take your temperature? It’s possible since you’ve been giving the EBWICBBBs the could shoulder so much, it’s got up to you ear, as well.
A suggestion for future comparisons of EIBWBBB size: an object of known size next to the specimen. That’s what archeologists do fro their finds, of course. A ruler might be too fussy, if specific to the max, but a simple coin of the realm, if not totally familiar to your non-GB readers, would still give some sense of it. And it would be patriotic if you put it queen’s profile up!
Great idea, Doug! Ta!
I’ll start doing that. (Now watch them disappear… Hehehe!)
Just like my kitty boys when I need photos for my posts…! LOL!