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Another Quarter Of A Thousand

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Today, I made a false start.  I started my two hundred and fifty words during my lunch break.  I only got one sentence done, so now I’m starting over.

I don’t have any self-imposed rules about when I write. I could do just over ten words an hour to meet my daily goal, at any time of day.

It’s been another muggy day, but the weather is supposed to be about ten degrees or so cooler tomorrow. There are rain showers forecast in the afternoon too.

Kathy is still wrapped up in the Olympics. I really don’t get time to watch it, even if I wanted to, as I go out around ten a.m to work and don’t get home until almost nine p.m.

Bad Hair DayBy the time I’ve had dinner, and read emails, and written a blog post such as this, I’m starting to think about going to bed again!

It’s certainly been a big salad week.  I did have a Double Sausage Egg McMuffin this morning, as I was really tight on time, but for mu lunch I had a chicken salad, without dressing, and this evening another salad with some left over gammon. Both were very tasty, and it’s all good – a lot fewer calories, which means it didn’t hurt to have a small glass of red wine to wash it down with this evening when I got home.

I’m almost done with my two fifty today, but tomorrow is another day of course, and this one is winding down. Good night!

 

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!