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I could feel it building last night but hoped that an early night would allow me to sleep through the headache.
Fat chance. I was awake at five with a cheeky monkey hammering out a groovy rhythm just behind my left eye. Bastard.
Even now - three or four hours after the monkey got bored and wandered off - the vision through my left eye’s still not back to normal. I just hope the monkey’s gone away for a while.
It must be said: I do enjoy quite a wide range of music.
I’m not at all ashamed to admit that iTunes was playing my 4 and 5 starred songs.
Eat more tomatoes, garlic and onions (they can forget the “drink half to two cups of tea each day” suggestion - tea is the brew of Beelzebub) and, of course, low-fat dairy produce.
Hurrah, again, for Rachel’s Organic.
Quelle surprise. I’m ever so slightly overweight1 leading to my blood pressure being ever so slightly2 too high. Time for some healthy comfort eating.
In situations like this I like to go for luxury but I’m mindful of the weight problem. Given, then, that it has to be low fat luxury there really is only one option.
It’s time for a bowl of lovely fresh fruit doused in a whole carton Rachel’s organic luscious low fat vanilla yogurt. Delicious and healthy.
Mmmmm.
What you’re favourite healthy treat? I need suggestions - and quickly, before it’s too late!
1 where “ever so slightly” covers the range of 1-50%
2 see above
I took my own advice and have made an appointment to see Dr Quack. 11:40 - by my reckoning it’ll be 10 minutes after the last sympton clears up.
I ended up walking to the surgery to make the appointment as getting through on the phone proved impossible (and the online appointment booker seems to have been removed from the website).
“Can I help you?”
“Yes, I’d like an appointment to see Doctor Quack.”
“You don’t have one?”
“No, I’ve walked over because I couldn’t get through on the phone. I suppose I could do with the exercise.”
“Yes, that’s our cunning plan.”
“Aha - so you admit it! Will you put that in writing?”
“No. Sorry.”
I was hoping that, seeing as how I was standing there in the surgery, I’d be given an earlier appointment than two and a half hours later but it was not to be.
Oh well, it’s a lovely day so I think I’ll stroll back over to see what Quackers says.
| Current odds: | |
| 1/1 | My blood pressure’s too high |
| 10/9 | It’s down to my weight |
| 3/1 | Not enough magnesium in my diet |
| 7/2 | It’s a virus that’s going around |
| 100/1 | It’s because I’ve stopped smoking |
| 1,000,000/1 | I’m too thin |
As I mentioned on Twitter earlier I was struck down - again - by the ol’ blinding headache schtick. Lovely.
In fact, I had to leave work at lunchtime to retreat into a quiet, darkened room. To tell the truth, I really should have left 30 minutes earlier as I entered Aaalburgh lacking any depth perception, being unable to bear having my left eye open. I didn’t hit anything, though, so all is well.
Safe indoors, I proceeded to sleep for six hours.
So now it’s 10 pm, my headache has cleared and there’s absolutely no way that I’m about to go to sleep again.
Bugger.
Heroes, then.
Lots of promotion across the BBC channels leading up to Wednesday’s launch with two episodes back-to-back to start things off.
After having given things some thought, I was … whelmed. Not overwhelmed. Not underwhelmed. Just whelmed.
I thought it was a very slow start, but then there are another nineteen weeks.
I was amused by something on one of the character summaries - that of Isaac.
Name: Issac Mendez
Location: New York
Job: Artist
Superpower: Is able to paint future events before they happen
Well yes. I think you’ll find that no future events have actually happened yet. That’s rather the whole point of “future”.
[Edit] Surfing about (scrupulously avoiding any reference to anything after episodes 1 and 2) I understand that the pace picks up after these introductions. It looks promising enough for me to stick with.
I had cause to visit the NICE people today.
I should say “revisit”, in fact. A few weeks ago I upgraded the stereo in the WTB (to offer better integration with t’iPod). All well and good … except when they installed it, they didn’t set the date correctly. The time was spot on, but the date was just over 6 months out.
It’s petty, I know, but it was beginning to bug me - mostly because although I could find the “Adjust Clock” option in the menu, the bloody thing wouldn’t let me access that menu option. I tried every combination but to no avail.
I explained this to Chappie when he arrived at NICE this morning. I detected a hint of “This guy’s clearly an idiot” about him as a knowing smile appeared on his face.
“Off you go, then.”
He smirked, leaned forward and selected the options menu … scrolled to General … selected this … scrolled to Adjust Clock …
His smile waned.
“It …”
“I know.”
“It just jumped right past.”
“I know. That’s why I’m here.”
“Good point. Ok. You’re going to have to leave the car here.”
“No problems. You have my number - give me a call when it’s done.”
It took them longer to sort this out than it did to install the bloody thing. It seems the chap they ended up ringing at the manufacturer’s help line didn’t know how to fix it either and they had to seek advice from the real help line.
It’s obvious, really. To be able to adjust the clock (in General settings, remember) you have to go into the Tuner menu, disable the AutoClock option, go back to General and adjust the clock and then enable the AutoClock option again in the Tuner menu.
Of course.
Why didn’t I think of that?
I do like a manufacturer with a sense of humour.