25.04.2026

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  Saturday 25th 42F/5.6C [7.20] A bright but much more cloudy day is promised. Unfortunately it will be windy all day. Gusting to 14m/s from the NW. 

 Up at 6.30 after lying there for what seemed like hours. Drifting in and out of dreams. I'll try to have a walk again. See how far I get. My Saturday morning ride is still possible.

 8.15 I Didn't make it to the end of the drive before turning back. The lower back pain, the overcast and the cold wind offered no pleasure.

 10.30 Off we go for a ride. 

 12.00 51F/10C. Back from a 34km ride. I looped through several villages before reaching my goal at 23km. It was continuously overcast and far colder than I expected. I was being buffeted by the wind and should have taken a spare, warm jumper but didn't. I changed into warmer GripGrab mitts and scull cap before heading home. My hands were already aching with the cold. I knew there would be a headwind for the last 10km. When it blew as  a crosswind I was being pushed sideways and had to lean into it.

 The traffic was light apart from the hundreds of motorbikes. They were everywhere and not all seemed to be going the same way. There is a big, annual motorbike meeting at Egeskov with free entry. They are expecting thousands of bikers to attend. It's a shame it isn't warm and sunny but at least it is dry. Last year the numbers reached 6642 bikes! Motorcycling is very much a seasonal pastime in chilly Denmark. With icy roads a potential hazard for six months of the year. 

  

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24.04.2026 The If/Then command.

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  Friday 24th 40F/4.4C [5.00] Another sunny day is forecast. 68F/20C in the room without heating. 47F/8.3C in the greenhouse.

 Up at 4.40 after a quiet night. Heart scan at the city hospital at 13.30.  

 7.50 I made it to the end of the drive before turning back. The lower back pain gets no better. Lots of birdsong in and around the garden.

 9.30 Woke from a one hour nap. Had an email to say my new doors are being delivered on the 30th. Unless told otherwise. 

 While I have been incapacitated by my back pain I have developed a bad habit. Of watching endless YouTube videos. It was becoming quite silly how I was limiting myself to watching YT's suggestions. AI, politics, humour, cycling, various science based subjects, etc. It really was getting a bit obsessive. Hours, days and hole [sic] weeks wasted on passive watching. Video Ketamin. 

 So I reprogrammed the Mk1 Blob with a Basic If/Then command. Every time the talking head asks for Likes, Comments, Subscription or Patreonage I close the video. As simple as that. Absolutely no exceptions. This simple rule has made the experience much less addictive. I am back in charge. The talking head no longer has the authority to keep me listening. Instant conversion from influencer to street beggar. Full stop. Bye!

 I was already blocking adverts. So I didn't have that option as a major turn off. Which might have strengthened my resolve to cut back on the dosage. Now I just have to find something else to do. Something constructive. Which doesn't involve too much walking. 

 12.00 I enjoyed an hour outside observing the sun through my specially filtered telescope. Carrying the individual parts in and out made me breathless. They each weighed about 5kg. Time to prepare for the drive to the city hospital. I shan't bother with lunch.

 15.00 Back again. A very thorough scan and discussion to follow. The doctor changed my tablets to avoid clotting. I have to go back for a more invasive examination of my heart plumbing. More drain rodding. My recent symptoms suggest a small artery is already becoming blocked where a stent was fitted. 

 A helicopter ambulance took off from the pad in the middle of the hospital. It was drifting backwards until it was over the car parks. Which threw up a fierce sandblasting cloud of dust! I hid behind a big sign as everybody cowered and covered their eyes! 

 I shopped on the way home. My first salad of the year. All organic. I was inspired to be a good boy. 

 Dinner was fried chicken on bread rolls. I really wasn't hungry despite not having lunch. I washed it down with a small apple juice. No coffee tonight. It is 70F/21C in the room but I feel cold. 

   

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23.04.2026

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  Thursday 23rd 44/6.7C [8.40] Another sunny day. Though a more cloudy start today. More like a bright overcast. It could reach 18C/64F this afternoon. 67F/19C in the room. No overnight heating. It reached 74F/23C after greenhouse heating yesterday afternoon. 54F/12C in the greenhouse this morning.

 Up at 7.20 after a fairly quiet night. I was awake at six but went back to sleep.

 Cooking class this morning. My back feels a little better. Just as it did yesterday. Until I started moving about. I have decided to go. It will get me out of the computer chair. Forcing me to stand about for several hours instead. I can always sit down if it gets too much. It will confirm if my office chair is causing the pain. It seems unlikely as I have been sitting on it for many years. Recycled of course.

 13.45 Back from cooking class. Where I made a banana and apple tart with two others. It was baked and then inverted to bring the bananas to the top. My back hurt but I brought a chair over. To sit on when I needed it. 110F/4Cin the greenhouse. Internal windows and doors opened. House currently at 69F/21C.

 

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