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A down day.
Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Started conversation Oct 17, 2014
One of the other dialysis patients, John, asked me to order up several spectacle cleaners from my Chinese suppliers for him a few weeks ago. They arrived on Wednesday, so I took them in for him yesterday.
Unfortunately, for some reason, in the interim he has taken against me. (I suspect I walked past him once without taking him on; I'm blind on the right hand side and can't acknowledge people on that side unless they actually speak to me as I pass...) He refused to take them from me. 
Fortuitously, I had four of them, and there were four people withy spectacles in the waiting room, so I gave them away there, to save me carrying them around all day. 
The dialysis itself was pretty quiet. I was pretty miserable, for three reasons. First, the way John was treating me. In the short time I've been there I came to consider him a friend. 
Second, I had to apoligise for my stupidity to pretty much everybody I met, as I had told them all I wouldn't be in (I got the date of my operation wrong 
) and thus caused many upheavals. 
And finally, because they didn't think I was coming in, I hadn't arranged a lunch, so I bought two sandwiches from the coffee shop at the front of the hospital. They tasted fine, but gave me one hell of a stomach ache for most of the afternoon. 
On the trip home, we waited about ten minutes in the ambulance for John, but when he arrived he spotted me in there and loudly announced he'd decided to take a taxi instead. 
I really have no idea what I've done to offend him. 
One good thing - I was wearing my new "Tommy" watch (apparently a Chinese clone of a more expensive American "Pebble" watch) which looks rather lovely. 
It came on Wednesday in the same bag as the spec cleaners. The only problem with it currently isn't its fault - my new tablet refuses to download the connectivity app, reporting "This version is incompatible with your device". 
Thus, at the moment, I only have a choice of three watch faces, and all the Bluetooth functionality (Display the sender and subject of incoming emails, remote control for music player, remore camera shutter release etc.) is moot. 
Once I got home I watched "Law & Order: SVU" and "9 out of 10 Cats". 
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