I can almost say that I have learned the sequence of the flashings-on-and-off of that little hourglass, when I try to start FreeCell. First it flashes for a while, then comes a patch when it appears steadily, then a couple more teeny tiny flashes � and then either success or failure. Although twice, I think, on �failure� evenings, I have coaxed it forth by wandering around the blue screen that says �Microsoft Solitaire Collection� and clicking away, both left and right. It came up good as gold tonight, just when I need it to get me through these last two draughts of my colonoscopy stuff. Jane, I�m a blind follower if ever there was one. I don�t think I�ll be ready for another drink of this stuff much before 9, anyway. I am interpreting the instruction to get it down within half an hour to mean that I can start 15 minutes before the specified time. Today went quite well, and this time tomorrow it�ll all be over. Helen�s husband David is an expert in such things �...
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Well, that�s the first day of preparation nearly done. I feel a bit peculiar, but I think I�ve survived. The difficulty lies in the funny stuff I�ve got to take. I feared something foul-tasting, and I feared a strong laxative. Neither proves to be the case. The difficulty is that I have to put 20 mg of it into 700 ml of water and drink it within half an hour. Reading the instructions in advance, I failed to notice that 700 ml is the better part of a litre. Today I had to do one at breakfast and one just now � and Freecell came up like a lamb so I just sat here sipping from my vase as if it were cider, playing Freecell. But tomorrow I will be obliged to do that, and then drink a third � at 9 p.m., which is after my bedtime. Needless to say, I didn�t walk, but I had my Tuesday bath which always feels wonderful. And ripped out the corrugated rib I had started to do on the neck of the Calcutta Cup vest, and re-did it (it looks much better) and bound it off ...
Freecell came up, good as gold, on the first click this evening � and I feel much better, too. I didn�t go out, feeling perhaps still a bit weak but also that in these days of the colonography, I can do what I want. The regimen begins tomorrow. That�s interesting, what you say about lack of salt, Shandy. I will certainly save the episode up for telling to a doctor. I don�t suppose I�ll even see a doctor when I go to the hospital on Thursday. I started on the corrugated rib for the neck of wee Hamish�s Calcutta Cup vest, but made enough silly mistakes that I think it�s worth pulling it all out and starting again. It won�t take long, once I really get going. I discovered in my previous adventures with corrugated rib, that my best bet is to carry the purl yarn in my right hand and the other in the left. Mechanically, that works fine, but my right hand keeps feeling that it�s entitled to do the knit stitch and muddle ensues. I had another salad from my salad machine...
I�ve been very low today. Low blood pressure? Why? I felt faint, and even feared that my eyesight was darkening. It started in the night � one of the times I got up to pee, I found I was steadying myself on the wall, as well as using a stick. However, I didn�t faint, or even fall, and this evening I think I feel a bit better. There�s no Freecell, though. So much for teetotalism. C. came. We didn�t attempt a walk. She brought me a loaf of plastic white bread, which is to form the basis of my colonography preparation on Tuesday and Wednesday. I ate some � it is truly delicious. Tamar, I had your very thought about the neck of wee Hamish�s vest during the night (before I saw your comment) and today, put it into action. The hole is not quite big enough for me. I have a rather large head. I think I could have tugged it on, but then maybe I couldn�t have got it off again. I�ve unpicked half a dozen stitches on one of the shoulder seams � the one that terminates...
You�re quite right, Mary Lou. I�ve got both Machu Picchu and Kate Davies� Coofle somewhere here on my laptop computer. The leg warmers, no. They were part of a kit from Jamieson & Smith and came on sort of stiff paper, I think. Tamar, they�re Fair Isle leg warmers, so not as easy knitting as they might be. I�ve three-needle bound off the shoulders of Hamish�s Calcutta Cup vest. All is well, except that I�m slightly worried about whether the neck is big enough, given the extraordinary size of the infant head. I won�t do much ribbing, and I won�t do any decreases. It can be a round neck. And I�ll use a stretch bind-off. I may get the neck tacked down on the inside tonight, ready for action tomorrow. I could unpick an inch on one of the shoulders, and knit the edging back and forth�That might be better than worrying. No Freecell so far tonight. Yesterday it suddenly appeared when I was wandering around the screen clicking both left and right. That�s having no ...
I had a struggle to get Freecell this evening, but eventually succeeded. Very odd. I think I�ve decided that I�ve finished knitting wee Hamish�s vest. It remains to finish it. I�m operating without a pattern. Graft the shoulder stitches together? Three-needle bind-off? I incline to the latter. I�ve got time for a corrugated rib � this year�s match is a fortnight tomorrow. But I�ve got to press ahead. The thing is to do the v-neck first. Then I can do an ordinary rib at the sleeve holes, if I run out of time. I still haven�t found those patterns. However I have established that Machu Picchu and Kate Davies� Coofle are both on my computer, leaving only the leg warmers. I need some soothing knitting right now, and think I will do the first Machu Picchu sleeve next. I�m knitting it bottom-up on vaguely EPS lines, so I don�t really need the pattern for a while. I�ve finished the body, up to the armpits. Sunshine again today, but I didn�t walk. Helen reported...
Freecell has been miraculously restored to me. Every time I turn this old laptop on and sit down to it, I begin by asking for the Microsoft Solitaire Collection. For the last few evenings, the blue screen has come up with those words on it, and with the hourglass symbol next to the cursor as if it were trying. Then no more. But tonight, just as I was about to give up, there it was. Did I not wait long enough, on the other evenings? I don�t think it was that. Anyway, I�m glad to see it. I found the menu plan for the �real� colonoscopy. The first day is not too bad � much like both days of my present regime, and with butter allowed on one�s white bread. But on the second day, no food at all, just liquids. That was where I feared I�d be too weak, and risk falling. I suspect the laxative was more savage, too. My husband had a colonoscopy once, and he had diabetes. I can�t imagine how we got through it. I�ve done some knitting. Helen and Fergus (her youngest son) ar...