I�ve got Microsoft Word back, anyway. It was a matter of switching the machine off and on again. Archie was no help � he thinks I should get a new computer. This one is old, as computers go � eight years at least. And it runs Windows 8. That's bad, according to Archie.

 

I didn�t try to go out today � bath day. And I got a get-out-of-jail-free card in the post: a summons from the NHS for a �CT colonoscopy minimum preparation examination�. �Minimum preparation� is still pretty severe � no fruit or vegetables or red meat, minimum fat, minimum dairy, for two days. But sugar and floppy white bread and white pasta are allowed so one shouldn�t faint. There is a little bottle of something to take three times a day while staying near a lavatory. The actual ordeal is on Thursday of next week. Get-out-of-jail-free, because I feel I can not do anything I don�t want to do, between now and then. I will be very tempted to drink a bottle of cider when I get back from the hospital next Thursday, too.

 

I got a bit more knitting done. I think I�ve done enough decreases for the v-neck. From now on, I�ll just add length. My Dry January calendar � on which, as I�ve said, I proudly paste a �Stayed Dry� sticker every evening � serves as a worrying how-is-that-vest-getting-on? calendar, since this year�s Calcutta Cup comes so early in February.

 

And I had a second tasty salad from my Salad Machine today.