Month: August 2016

Day 4 of the 250 words

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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.

Bean SaladIt’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

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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.

Aah!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!

Another 250

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This evening I’m writing quite late. It’s after ten thirty and I am in bed with my iPad. It’s been another warm sunny day with the temperature reaching into the high seventies this afternoon.

Right now, my bedside thermometer tells me that it’s 78 degrees in here, although of course it’s cooler now outside as it’s after dark, and the temperature almost always drops away by several degrees when the sun goes down.

The router decided  to act up today while I was at work. It seems that the on/off switch on longer wants to latch in, so Kathy did a temporary fix by taping it down. So far, so good.

I’ve got the bedroom fan running again while I write, and it will probably stay on all night to render it cool enough to sleep comfortably. 

How long will I keep up the two hundred and fifty daily words? I only just remembered this evening after I got into bed. 

Kathy is still up as she’s watching the Olympics on the TV. She is watching it live for a while, having caught up with the previous days games that were on the Tivo.200

Rio being a few hours behind London means that a lot of the games are broadcast in the wee small hours, and it’s usually too much of a struggle to stay up until three or four in the morning, particularly if there’s work to go to that day. 

Anyway, I have about reached my daily target now, and I can hear Kathy getting ready to come to bed. I bid you all goodnight.