Whenever I attempt to regularly do something such as this, it always collapses like a house of cards a short time after. While I doubt anyone will read my boringly unambitious blog anyway, if you do, prepare for the disappointment. So, after that auspicious and optimistic preface...
It's been three days now since we had to have one of our cats, Chippy, put to sleep. He had a history of problems with polyps growing inside his ears, resulting in regular ear infections, but this time the infection was serious and got deep into his ear canal, and from there affected the nerves in the side of his face, meaning he could barely eat due to the discomfort. As a result of all this he lost loads of weight and would find it difficult to maintain his balance. After lots of attempts to make him better with various drug treatments, it became obvious that there was little we could do to resolve the infection and that the kindest thing would be to let him go. He was the friendliest cat I've ever known, and we'll miss him a lot.
My first day back at work today after a couple of weeks off. Unfortunately, the first thing I was greeted with was a computer fault meaning I'm limited in what I can do until it's fixed and the first port of call for the day was a phonecall to the helpdest to try and get it fixed. The first person I spoke to gave me some rather long-winded advice suggesting I unpug all the leads from the computer, then remove the battery, and then plug it all back in and try again. I was somewhat dubious about this course of action, and so rang the helpdes again, only to get some different advice (though no solution). Now I have to wait for a callback that may not come until tomorrow. While for some this could potentially offer opportunity for skiving, in reality it just means the things I need to do are made more difficult. Bah!
Spent some time during my lunch-break continuing my project to reformat an e-book into a state that is readable on my Kindle. The book was delivered as a PDF which, while it opens ok in the Kindle, features fonts so small as to be unreadable. After a few attempts to find an acceptable compromise, the only workable solution has been to copy the full text into MS Word and then re-edit it it all before using Calibre to convert it to a .mobi file. The first, partial, attempt proved fruitful, so now it's just a case of editing a few chapters at a time until I get the whole thing done.
Today also saw the start of the 'big diet'. I reckon I need to lose a couple of stone at least, so that'll be fun... Still, if I can stick it out for the first couple of weeks, all should become easier. First target - the ability to wear my smaller sized jeans without fearing that I'll sever my legs from my torso when sitting down.
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