Monday. Lights out not long after eight and awoke twice during the night for about half an hour each time. Seem to recall it's happened before when I've turned the lights out this early.

Awoke for good at ten minutes to six and so dawdled getting up and getting ready to drive to breakfast. Raining. Definitely raining, no thought to walk. Had the two strips of bacon, eggs over medium, country potatoes, toast, fruit cup and coffee for breakfast, finishing up at eight-thirty, the rain coming down again full tilt as I took the usual pictures on the way to the car.

Nothing on the schedule today. The rain should break by afternoon and we'll see if my saying I need to get in more walking holds any promise. Truth. We do kid ourselves around here, we do.

Later. Checked the shipping notice online. The controller is being delivered by USPS today and not tomorrow so we do have something on our plate for the day.

Later still. The controller came with the rest of the mail around three and so popped it into the machine to have it boot, yes, but not recognize an operating system on the hard drive. Much diddling around looking to find a way to install windows, but to no avail. We'll call Dell support tomorrow to see what can be done. Why am I not surprised?

Evening. At least the Father Brown episodes are short, essentially the same characters repeating their same routines over and over, all of them acted way over the top. Yet I watched.

To bed early again I was thinking, but ended up half watching the episode of Dr. Blake Mysteries that followed, absorbing enough to figure out the who'd killed whom and why, but that proved enough for an evening.