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Day 4 of the 250 words

August 17, 2016August 17, 2016 IBM Leave a comment

Today was another warm one. I’m writing this a little earlier this evening, on my old laptop, which is running Windows 10 Anniversary Update.

Kathy has watched the Olympics again today, but she’s back to work tomorrow, so I guess she’ll get some withdrawal symptoms with that!

Right now, she is watching some show with some guy who talks to those beyond the grave. I really don’t believe in this kind of stuff. I think it’s a clever con trick.

It’s been a salad day today, and plenty of fish too. I had a salmon and cucumber sandwich for lunch, and had a cheese and bean salad with that too. When I got home, I had some cold ham with a cucumber salad, some cos lettuce – an unusual purple variety too – and coleslaw. After that we finished off with some tuna and crackers which I like to spice up a bit with a few drops of Tabasco.

Now, I have to fast for the next twelve hours as I’ve got blood work at the doctors tomorrow morning, and this requires an overnight fast. Good thing it’s only twelve hours, but I’ve got to head off to work right after this, so I won’t even get late breakfast, but more like have to wait until I get a break around 2.30pm.

I guess I won’t fade away, and a little fasting doesn’t do any harm, but it’s not something I’d want to do regularly!

It’s that time again, so I’ll bid you all a very good night!

The Third 250

August 16, 2016August 16, 2016 IBM Leave a comment

So here we are. The third day of my two hundred and fifty daily blog posts.

It’s been another warm day today; in fact I thought it was rather muggy at times this afternoon. Temperatures weren’t excessive, only into the mid seventies. Fahrenheit of course. I’ve never adopted that continental Celsius nonsense here. I grew up with Gabriel’s scale, and I see no reason to change it now, not as I find it so personally relate-able in any case.

I seem to be fine all day, but in the evenings once I get home, I keep getting an itching attack. I know it’s because I sat out in the sun for too long last weekend. I really should know better, but I do like to make the most of the weather here, as one never knows how long it will last. Not unknown to got from sunny to wet and windy with a twenty degree temperature drop in under twenty-four hours. Heck, I’ve known that to happen in the same afternoon, let alone the next one!

This week I usually retire to bed around ten o’clock but this evening find me still sitting downstairs with my wife as she watches the Olympics. I lose track a bit as she keeps changing the channels around to watch different events. In this house, she is the one that has the remote control for the television, not I.

Having said all that, I think I’ll call this post a wrap and bid you all a very good night!

August 14, 2016August 14, 2016 IBM Leave a comment

I keep telling myself I’ll become more focused, more self disciplined and tackle some self-improvement. One of the ways that I feel I could do this, is by writing more. I’m not too good at keeping a diary, even though I start out with the best intentions.

So, to this end, I’ve set myself a goal of writing two hundred and fifty words a day. I’ve also decided to tackle more brain games, indulge in a little meditation, and even try and walk ten thousand steps.

Now, I’m ‘typing’ this on my iPad right now. Yes, I deliberately enclosed typing in quotes, as you can’t really type on a tablet; certainly not on a mini one!

I’m not sure, not at all sure, how I’m going to find the time to do all this stuff, particularly with doing nine or ten hour shifts at work most days either.

Aside from the time required, there comes the age old problem of what the heck to write about. I don’t want to bore everyone with politics, although I’m sure I will feel moved at times to write about the state of play in either the United Kingdom or the United States or both.

I’m not a big fan of any particular sport, so I’m not at all qualified to promote an opinion there. I’m rather into social media, geeky stuff, and tech in general so that’s probably where most of my scribbled diatribe will be based around.

We shall see. I might even get more readers. Time will tell.