Day 3061 Not a good start.

1st January 2026

“ It’s a new day, new month, and a new year, and I’m feeling,……shite”

I think I finally got to sleep about 5.00am, not through being a party animal, but because Kelli couldn’t sleep.

It started when the ear buds that she listens to a podcast of bedtime stories didn’t work.

Each time she switched the program on, it wouldn’t play through the buds, instead the sound came through the phones internal speaker. Kelli relies on this to send her to sleep, so there was panic mode. 

Was it something in the headphone socket? I gave it a clean, but it didn’t make any difference.

I have two phones both with Spotify installed, but she couldn’t remember what her password was, anyway this wasn’t working, and she was getting angry about it. 

I was trying to keep the puppy calm, against all this disruption.

Eventually she found an old phone, but it was old, and very slow, and there wasn’t much power in it.

“This is a great start to a new year”, I thought.

Somehow, at some unearthly hour it finally resolved itself, it remains a mystery.

Now if only she would go to sleep, this is the time I usually tell her a story, tonight it was about my schooldays, I don’t remember how many times I’ve told the same bloody tale, but it did the trick. 

I’m quite proud of myself, I have proof that I can bore someone to sleep.

After five hours of sleep I really did want to drive to Fennville to collect a wire frame that we were planning to fence part of the living space off to contain Winnie. We were going to create Stalag 13.

There was snow falling, the roads were icy and white, it was a harrowing journey.

I found the house, the truck made the first tracks  in the freshly fallen snow. I collected the box with the parts inside, and slipped the money into a box on the porch, then I made the journey back.

Whilst I was away Kelli was preparing a chicken to roast that we were going to take to her mums for our new year feast.

That went surprisingly well, despite Matt making Spaghetti, which he and Brenda devoured, we were confused, but hey ho, each to their own.