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Wednesday 16th 58F/14C [7.50] Overcast with the unsettled, thundery showers continuing. My friend had 35mm of rain yesterday. My rain gauge cracked in a winter frost. So I did not record anything useful. Replacements measuring cylinders are available at low cost. Why haven't I bought one? Another roundtoit.
Up after 7.am following an awful night. As the gnawing stomach pain continued I started feeling horribly dizzy in the evening. So I went to bed early. More heart pains as I kept my eyes tight shut to stop the room from spinning. There is a definite connection between an upset stomach and the dizziness. Which is receding but may only be hiding. I feel decidedly fragile. As I wobble about like an old man. Though I managed my morning bowl of organic porridge oats with organic raisins.
8.15 Do I feel strong enough for a walk? No. A shame. I really wanted to see how professionals lay gravel.
10.00 Weak sunshine. I was feeling a bit better. So I was just making my morning coffee roll with marmalade. When I realised that the organic vegetable spread. Which I use as a butter substitute. Has to be kept cold. It is often above 21C/70F in the kitchen. Where I keep the "Block" on the worktop for several days. To make it easier to spread. The very reason I stopped using butter from the fridge.
It has to be kept in the fridge from now on! Below 8C/46F. For some reason I had imagined the veggie base somehow made it safe. Simply because it wasn't based on animal products. Silly old wotsit! Have I just poisoned myself again? That was the last of the pack just now. There were many others before that. All sitting on the worktop. Even catching the sun and melting!
I just had a Gargoyle on the subject. There is a direct connection between an upset stomach and vertigo. I had noticed that each time I was extremely dizzy I had diarrhea and/or severe "gas." The cause was most likely the upset stomach. [Mild food poisoning?] Not some imaginary, inner ear problem.
There is also a connection between heart problems and bad stomachs. Heart attacks can disguise themselves as, or result from upset stomachs. I had bad indigestion. The morning before I was taken to hospital. With the ambulance blue lights flashing.
I hereby nominate UPS as the worst service of any kind, anywhere in the universe, in the entire history of the universe. UPS is clearly run by drooling fuckwits/and or psychopaths. Alternatively they are all working undercover for another company. To deliberately undermine UPS delivery and customer services. Never, ever accept UPS as a potential delivery service. Not for the tiniest thing. It will almost certainly shorten your life by several years!
You thought the CIA was spying on you? Try getting the UPS delivery app! If you live long enough to complete their ten page questionnaire!
I have just wasted the petrol for a 24 km round trip to one of their more distant parcel box vending machines. Not the one I asked for, of course. But hey, UPS is involved. Aided and abetted by Bring. You know Bring. The parcel delivery service. Which employs only drivers with huge chips on their shoulders and psychotic, lifelong, family grudges. Backed up by office staff with huge chips on their shoulders. And I am sorry but I don't understand any Indian language spoken in Engliandish at 700 words per minute!
Don't even bother to turn up at one of these machines if you haven't previously completed the multi-marathon UPS app acceptance speech to the UN and had it personally signed by Chump and Pootin. It will always assume you are an existing customer. One who simply enjoys being fucked about by a bunch of serial losers!
I'll be back. 😎
16.00 I'm back. 48km and the second round trip came within an atom of failing. I hadn't brought my scanning tunneling microscope to read the sub-nano script on the shiny glass, UPS screen. The information on the screen made no sense until I touched the screen. Though there was no prompt to do so and it lead to a long delay. Before a notice saying "Technical problem. Come back another day,week, month, decade, whatever!" popped up.
Fortunately I had a pair of supermarket, extra strong, reading glasses gathering dust in the car. Which. When placed over my existing prescription reading glasses. Allowed me make a wild guess as to the near invisible hieroglyphs on the screen.
In desperation I tried an impromptu scan and was rewarded with a "PING" as a drawer popped open quite unexpectedly. So I must have done something completely wrong. There is no way UPS would let me have my parcel using their own procedures.
The tiny O-rings I had ordered from Germany must have been delivered by mobile crane and multi-wheel low loader. Complete with police escort. All I can say is that it was lucky I wasn't on my bike! I've seen smaller wind surfing kites. All the effort and expense will now prove worthless. In the face of insurmountable mechanical problems with the optics of my solar telescope. Which has nothing whatsoever to do with the pneumatic seal provided by the O-rings. Sigh. 😣
Well, I just wasted a whole afternoon fetching a parcel. So it must be true. I just wish I had gone on my bike. The blast radius of my cursing UPS would have taken out half the village! I'll cut out the middle man if it ever happens again. I'll take an oxy-acetylene burner!
Back at home I changed the O-rings and assembled the telescope. Before taking it outside and mounting it on the tripod. IT was bright but the sky was almost opaque. With total, uniform, cloud cover. So I will have to wait until tomorrow to try again.
Dinner was fried chicken, mushrooms, an egg and halved tomatoes. Making sure the egg was well cooked. I added half a tin of baked beans to make it look like a meal. To be finished off with a bread roll. Pudding was an organic apple and a glass of water.
NO coffee! It is a diuretic and will keep me awake.
NO coffee! It is a diuretic and will keep me awake.
NO coffee!
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