I had a better night’s sleep last night, waking (briefly) at 3am and 5am, but managing to get straight back to sleep. The sun is shining when we pull back the curtains, which is a pleasant change.
I turn my device up to daytime settings when I get downstairs – tremor is really quite strong on my left hand side, not so bad on my right side. Dystonia is still being a pain in the foot, but it’s bearable. Balance is a bit off, and I’m having to hold onto things when I put my wellies on to take the dog out. My knee pain has diminished further, and I’m becoming more confident about my assertion that it is related to my device settings!
My wife is busy making a cake for her youngest son’s girlfriend (who has a birthday tomorrow) as well as feeding the washing machine and generally getting things done around the house. I bring the logs in, clean out the woodburner and lay the fire for this evening (it’s a little warmer today, so I’m not going to light it so early).
We sit down together this afternoon, and review accounting software for my wife’s business – we have been getting by with using an Excel spreadsheet up until now, but we really need something a little more suited to the task in hand, preferably free! We settle on GnuCash, which seems to tick all of the necessary boxes (especially the ‘free’ one!) and set about installing it on my MacBook and then tailoring it to our requirements. My left leg tremor is driving me nuts, and I increase the voltage on my device (now 2.05v on the left, 2.3v on the right) to try to rein it in.
I light the fire, we have dinner, and I declare an end to faffing about with software (at least for today). Time to find some rubbish to watch on Netflix…