Nine hours in bed, six hours sleep, but I didn't wake up feeling poorly or de-hydrated. It's an improvement. Cloudy but dry today also an improvement. After breakfast I occupied myself with making the Wednesday Morning Prayer video and uploading it. It was a frustratingly slow task, as Windows 11 Bluetooth refused to work with a mouse it clearly recognises. It will work with the Chromebook, but consistently complains on different devices of only having 5% battery left, even when loaded with a tested new battery. This may be why it struggles to connect to any computer. It forced me to use a spare wi-fi mouse which works, but its cursor movement isn't nearly accurate enough which makes it error prone. I have two other wireless mouses, (or is it really mice?) both of them are electronic waste awaiting disposal. And there's an old USB wired mouse which works but not as accurate as it was three decades ago.
I walked down to the river before lunch. Although a lot of rain fell this week the river level wasn't as high as I expected. Leaves on more of the leaves have turned yellow or fallen this past fortnight but there's still a mixture of olive green and gold in the tree canopies. Leaves in garden hedges are a delightful mixture of green, orange, gold and brown in some places, perhaps due to the relative mildness of the weather, and no sharp frost and cold wind to cause them to fall. A lovely sight. Prawns with veg stir fry and rice for lunch when I returned.
An Openreach engineer arrived at two. Me cancelling the appointment made no difference. Having an engineer there, rather than turn him away, I asked him to check our setup. His diagnostic device showed that the outage which affected us also affected those attached to the same pole, something to do with the routine maintenance. Our setup wasn't to blame. When a red light shone on our fibre optic port, the same was true for the others. Trouble is, many of them would have been at work by that time, not available to ask if they were affected. If it was clearly a group connectivity issue, an alert through the service provider to OpenReach would have resulted in prompt remedial action. It was worthwhile having the cancelled visit in the end, to learn this and have the house installation thoroughly checked.
Kath has been investigating broadband deals for me, and trying to figure out the most economical deal that covers TV, streaming services and landline rental is bewilderingly complex. I'm not looking forward to the chore of switching broadband providers, though it's very possible that doing so will save money and give us better service.
I went out for another walk in Llandaff Fields as the sun was setting set. How soon after it gets dark under cloud cover. I walked for an hour and returned in time to take my tea time medication, having completed my daily step quota, less tired today, and my heart rate is steadier, now that my kidneys are functioning the way they should.
A quiet evening of entertainment after supper plus a call from Rachel, an episode of Shetland and a couple of Juge Marianne watched on Chromebook. And then early bed.
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