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…and I am knackered. The check in process was, as usually, annoying but relatively painless this time. Once we got on the plane, the problem was the food. I asked (mistakenly, I guess) for diabetic meals. The lunch just after takeoff features insipid steamed chicken with a few veggies carelessly strewn around it. Then they offered me ice cream, which doesn’t feature on most diabetic menus in any great amount. Breakfast featured a leaden croissant WITH marmalade (not really a great item for a diabetic) along with an “entree” of steamed fish. Aside from the fact that I detest fish, whatever it was had been steamed so badly that it was tough. Those who got the regular menu got an omelette or seafood noodles. I would have gladly exchanged for an omelette. Why do people think that unspiced unsauced steamed meat or fish is right for diabetics?

When we got here, we got our bags relatively easily and WL’s parents met him there. His mom looks very frail now–she has a very pronounced widow’s hump. But he went off with them and I waited for my host, BK, to get there. We were quite early due to the fact that airlines routinely exaggerate the schedule times so that they have little chance of getting there late. The result is that you’re almost always early.

So off to BK’s place, where I greeted his housekeeper, Anker, with joy: she is really one of life’s joyful people. Then a shower and to bed, fitfully. It’s now 5:30 pm and I’m still knackered. We’ll probably go out for dinner later and then back here and to bed again. I hope to feel better tomorrow.

By the way, if you’re ever about to be away from home and you want to use your home computer, install LogMeIn I was amazed at how easily it controlled the computer at home. I now won’t have the problem I had last time: not being able to download my email onto my home computer and thus having to use Yahoo!’s interface and trawl through hundreds of emails. Now I just use MailWasher as usual, download email, and then read it through Eudora. I got the free version; there is another version with which you can transfer files and stuff.

Oh, and if is reading, you may be called on to reboot my computer at intervals; I’ll send you a text (bearing the London time difference in mind) if I need to reboot.

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