A very mixed bag of weather today. Windy, then sunny, then rain, then repeat.
Did my walk and decided to wrap up warm in case the wind came round again.
Just my luck, it didn’t and the stayed sunny meaning I was sweltering by the time I got back from the walk.
Had my MOT done today. Took surprisingly low amount of time — I dropped the car off at 10:30 for the 11:00 appointment and they called me back at 2pm saying it was done.
They had a check-in process where you sign in, and deposit the car keys (with a tag saying which bay you had parked the car) into a small locker and that signals the mechanic you have left your keys. It’s contactless so you are never near another human.
My daily walk as a result, was much later than normal.
Had to shop for more milk, so went up to Tesco but they didn’t have the organic milk needed. Went to Sainsbury’s instead and they did.
Booked my MOT, but they said they did not have any “While you wait” slots for that date so it would be booked as a drop-off.
So instead, I booked for this weekend.
The showroom is only a single bus ride (plus a 15-minute walk) so it’s not too bad.
Forgot to log this yesterday.
Was another wet and windy day, didn’t really do much of a walk, and just managed to walk to the local Co-op to get some milk in the pouring rain.
Toyota later called me advising my MOT on the Yaris was due next month and I should book in the MOT.
Did that today and surprised that they offer a “While you wait” MOT that you can drop the car off and wait for them to do the MOT and then pick it up afterwards.
Next available slot for that is in two weeks. Still in good time for the 9th June deadline where the MOT expires.
Today’s been raining, windy, sunny, rainy again and repeat all day.
Managed to get a walk in between the rain and wind phases
Finished reinstalling my apps and had a few issues with location. Waze and Google Maps had trouble locking onto GPS and found out that even though the option to allow location “only while app is running” was available, I needed to set the permission to “at any time” otherwise they would lock on.
Citymapper had no issue
Just Eat still has issues and does not have a “at any” level for location permission, so I just use the postcode for that.
Most of the apps are now working. A few will not install from Play Store, presumably they’re not built to support Android 11 yet:
For Fenix, I went back to Plume (I had previously paid for the Premium version and that works fine). I installed GBoard so I can put gifs into my tweets again (one feature I really liked from Fenix)
WeChat, I ended up sideloading from apkmirror and it worked fine.
Decided to finally action the upgrade notification on my phone and Lineage OS wanted to update from Android 10 to Android 11.
The upgrade went off without too many issues, but I then found out Open Gapps had no package fro Android 11, meaning I had to resort to MindTheGapps — a minimal package that only allows Google Apps to work, but doesn’t actually install any. Consequently the Google Apps I had installed via OpenGapps decided to stop working as a result. I had to uninstall and reinstall everything from Google — Search, Notes, YouTube, Maps, Home, etc.
But fortunately everything else seemed to work. Camera MX decided to stop working, so I’ve gone back to CameraZoom
I also went round the torched fence and managed to get a pic of the new fence
Didn’t log this yesterday, but did my usual walk, pretty warm day and most of the pubs are now open, though my local one isn’t still. And I’m beginning to wonder whether it ever will.
Meanwhile, I finally got round to going to Costco and sorting out my physical membership card.
Did my walk and today was mostly me lying in bed trying to move without my body feeling like absolute s**t. Aches were difficult to deal with in the morning, headache slowly subsiding and the fresh air help clear my head a bit more.
Did my walk earlier today — I’ve developed a headache (one of the common symptoms of the jab) and it’s been making it difficult to concentrate.
The walk helped, but my jabbed arm is aching again.
Still have a bit of nausea, but no diarrhoea or vomiting.
Plus it looks like it’s about to rain..
I have now finally had my first covid jab. It took a while queuing outside the centre before I could get in and go through all the checks and stuff.
I got the AZ vaccine
I finally got my jab in my right arm (I’m left handed) and it immediately started to sting. I did not need to wait 15 minutes as that was only required if you were driving. I took the bus in.
Blender Fox 
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