Week 7 of 2024 was quiet, allowing me to do a lot of work on my website & finally start sorting out my thousands of photos into a filing system on my computer. It will help me find the photos I'm looking for.
2024, week 7.
Monday, 12th February.
I woke up around 7:30 am, got myself a coffee & sat down at my computer to work on my website. I have some boots being delivered by Amazon today, so I won't be leaving home until they have been delivered. While looking at Facebook, I saw an advert for a company selling coffee capsules for my coffee machine. They had an offer on their coffees & I saw they did a Ginseng coffee, which I liked drinking when I was on one of the cruises I went on last year. I ordered the coffee & then checked my messages.
I had a message from Google & was happy to see that the work I had done yesterday had been registered, & that the unnecessary listings for my website had been removed. It will make my job of getting unindexed pages indexed a lot easier going forward.
After I posted my blog from last week, I portioned off the soup I made yesterday & put it in the freezer. I sat working on my website & waited for my delivery from Amazon. My delivery from Amazon arrived at about 1:30 pm. When I opened the delivery, the boots were of great quality but were far too small. Buying shoes is a lottery as far as I am concerned. None of the makers footwear is the same size & all makes seem to have their own version of the standard sizes. I completed the form to return them & will return the ones that arrived last week with them first thing tomorrow morning. For lunch, I had a couple of small rolls with grilled cheese & ham in them with the last bit of yesterday's soup.
This afternoon & evening, I worked on my website. I worked until around 7 pm, when I had chicken & chips for my tea. After eating my tea, I continued working & went to bed at around 10 pm.
Tuesday, 13th February.
When I woke up at 6:30 am, I got myself a coffee & then checked my email messages. At 8:30 am, I went to the bank to check on my investments & also to check on a payment that wasn't made on my credit card. Everything was good & in case I have a problem with my credit card while I am on holiday, they issued me a second card for emergencies.
When I left the bank, I went to the doctor's surgery to get an appointment to see the doctor. I got an appointment to see him at 7 pm tonight & then went back to my apartment. I parked my disability scooter in the garage & put it on to charge for a while as I have to go out again later & want to make sure it has a good charge before I go out.
At 11 am, I go to the Euronics store to send the two sets of boots back to Amazon. After they had been sent back, I went to Mercadona & dropped off a big bag of coffee pots to be recycled. After I dropped them off, I carried on to La Sombre Pizzeria to meet Martin. We sat chatting for about an hour & a half before I left to return to my apartment.
When I got home, I took a painkiller, lay on the sofa & fell asleep. I woke up several times during the afternoon but dropped off to sleep again fairly quickly. I woke up around 6 pm & waited till about 6:40 pm before going to the doctor. The receptionist checked me in quickly & by 7 pm, I had seen a doctor & been given a prescription for antibiotics. I saw a nurse who lanced my finger & squeezed the puss out of it. She found a splinter in the finger & washed the finger out & then applied antibiotic cream to the finger. I have to get more antibiotic cream to apply daily & only if the finger hasn't healed in a week do I have to return.
When I got home, the pain in my finger made me feel sick. Instead of cooking the bit of steak I had ready for my tea, I rested for a while & took a painkiller. I must have fallen asleep for a while & woke up around 9 pm. I did some work on my website before turning the computer off & set the dishwasher timer to run at midnight when the cheaper electric period started. I then went to bed at 10:30 pm.
Wednesday, 14th February.
I got up at 7 am & went to the kitchen for my coffee. I checked the dishwasher & whilst the machine had run, there seemed to be a white deposit in some of the dishes, so I set the machine to do a quick wash to hopefully clean everything properly. I sat down at my computer, checked for new messages & then began to work on my website.
At 10 am, I went to the pharmacy to collect the prescription the doctor gave me last night. Once I had the tablets, I went straight home & started the course of antibiotics. I have to take an antibiotic tablet three times a day & wash & clean the wound on the finger & put antibiotic cream on it whenever I need it, for instance, after washing my hands.
The rest of the day was spent working on my computer. I edited many photos for my online photo albums, looked up details for the photo descriptions & added these to my photo albums. After I had been doing this for a few hours, I took a break from the photo editing & did some administration on the blogs on the website. I finished working on my website at around 7 pm & cooked myself steak, egg, fried potatoes, & fried mushrooms for my tea.
In the evening, I transferred money between my bank accounts to pay for my upcoming cruise. I then spent the night watching TV & I went to bed just after 11 pm after taking my last antibiotic pill for the day.
Thursday, 15th February.
I woke at 7 am when my alarm went off to tell me to take my first antibiotic tablet of the day. After taking the tablet, I got myself a coffee & checked for messages on my computer. Half an hour later, I got another coffee & got myself a supercharged bowl of porridge. I put assorted frozen berries, a banana, peanuts, walnuts, raisins, honey & Greek yoghurt in it.
After breakfast, I indexed some of my website pages & then went to Buena Vist restaurant with my neighbour Liz for a coffee at about 10:30 am. We had our coffee & sat chatting in the sun until just after midday. When we left, I went to the Spice shop round the corner from my apartment to get a couple of potatoes.
When I got home, I did more work on my website until around 3 pm. I took a break & had a couple of crackers for lunch, took my second antibiotic tablet & then had a siesta. I started working on my website again, stopping at about 7 pm for my tea. I had the second half of the bit of steak I had yesterday, with some chips for my tea, & then continued working on my website till 11 pm when I had my final antibiotic pill for the day & turned my computer off. I watched an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit & then went to bed at midnight.
Friday, 16th February.
I woke up at 6 am this morning & got myself a coffee. Still half asleep, I sat down at my computer & checked my computer for any messages. I then spent the next thirty minutes determining what day it was. In my sleepy mind, I convinced myself it was Saturday & couldn't work out why my computer said it was Friday. I sat listening to Radio Two for a time check, but the Radio 2 presenter didn't say the day. As my coffee started to work, I realised that it was Friday & that it was me that was a day early, not the rest of the world a day late. My time travelling journey over with & finding myself back in the correct day, I got another coffee.
I have some new different coffee being delivered today & I hoped I didn't have to wait for it all day. I sat down at my computer & began working on photos for my website. As I worked, I began to notice that many of my photos seemed to be duplicated. I think it had something to do with how my computer synchs with my online backup. I stopped the computer from doing automatic backups & checked my photos, it looked like I had thousands of duplicates. I bought a piece of software to help me find the duplicates & set it running on my computer.
During the morning, I had a message from the coffee delivery company saying my delivery would arrive between 3:15 pm & 4:15 pm. As I had time before it arrived, I took some recycling to the bins, getting rid of a bag of paper & cardboard & a bag of plastic. While I was out, I popped into the Economycash store for a few groceries & then went home.
At home, I got myself a burger for my lunch. I like the thick, peppered burgers they do at the meat counter in Economycash; they are much nicer than the thin, tasteless ones I sometimes get. After I had eaten I looked at the software that had been detecting duplicated photos on my computer. It had found thousands & I then spent hours picking which ones to keep & which ones to delete. The software will do this for you using your choices as a guide, but I prefer to check each manually until I get used to the software.
My coffee finally arrived at around 5:45 pm. Why the delivery driver bothered to message me to give me a time, I don't know; they never arrive early or on time.
I finally stopped working on duplicated photos at around 11:30 pm & switched my computer off to watch the Graham Norton show on TV. He had some great guests today, including Rag´n´Bone Man singing his new song. I expect the song will grow on me, but it is not as good as his huge hit, Human. Once the show finished, I went to bed.
Rag´n´Bone Man singing Human.
Saturday, 17th February.
I woke up late today, I had slept through my alarm at 7 am telling me to have my antibiotics. I got up & got myself a coffee. I tried one of the new Ginseng coffees. I loved the taste, but it was not strong enough for me to be able to get a double, double serving out of one capsule. It does make a very nice double measure & I think at around 28 cents for a double shot, it is good value for money. The Italian blend I had delivered at the same time is even better value at 22 cents a double shot.
Once I had woken up, I went online to the New York Times & did today's Wordle puzzle. I managed to do it, making it 21 days in a row I had managed it. I think these little puzzles, along with the coffee, do help me to concentrate & wake me up properly in the morning.
Before I started work, I looked at trips I wanted to do on my cruise around Hawaii & Alaska in a couple of months. I studied the trips & booked six escorted trips. Three when I am in Hawaii & three when I am in Alaska.
I spent the rest of the day using several software packages to sort out thousands of my photos. I had lots of duplicates & began to move the photos into a filing system that I could search more easily. I stopped to watch the Burnley vs Arsenal football match on TV & was glad I did. Arsenal won 0-5 & it really should have been a much bigger score.
When the game finished, I continued sorting through my photos & didn't stop until about 1 am Sunday morning. Unable to keep my eyes open anymore, I went to bed.
Sunday, 18th February.
I woke up at about 8 am after my late night yesterday. I had a coffee, got some porridge & sat down to work on the photos on my computer again. My neighbour Liz messaged me to see if I wanted a coffee at about 10:30 am & I took a break & walked to the Buena Vista restaurant to meet her. We sat talking & said hello to some other friends, Mick & his mum Sheila, before leaving & going back to our apartments at midday.
I continued working on my photos & finally stopped at about 4 pm to put my dinner in the oven. When the pork joint had cooked, I ate the crackling but wasn't really hungry & left the pork to cool off to eat next week instead.
I worked very late on the photos again. I finished work at about midnight & went to bed.