The daily ritual cycle

Created by: Lester Caine, Last modification: 22 Mar 2025 (11:26 UTC)

While I do not have anything in particular to target each day, I'm trying to maintain a regular pattern for key elements of the daily cycle.

  1. Alarm is set for 6:30, a little earlier than I used to work to, but seems to be getting more consistent with my waking up
  2. Morning obs - Blood pressure, pulse, oxygen level and temperature. The pulse and oxygen level are being tracked by my watch all day so these may be redundent. Blood pressure is a problem for the watch!
  3. Wash and shave ( Sunday is hair-wash day over in the main block's communal shower.
  4. Weight while undressed and copy to the watches body mass check.
  5. Breakfast ... Usually around 7AM now a days. High fibre options and banana and raisins for a five a day tick.
  6. TV has not been as important as it was in the past, prefer on-line news and morning programs don't grab my attention, so running music instead.
  7. 7:30 to 10 usually on the computer, but need to alternate with other activities.
  8. 10AM do my physio on my knee. This is now down to a 20 minute routine, and I'm finally logging that via the watch, something the physio app does not do.
  9. After physio I normally have a piece of mackerel as a mid morning snack. It pulls the fat and protein to a better balance and is supposed to be good for me, but uses up calories.
  10. 12 seems the right time to head out for my 'Brisk Walk' and while 20 minutes was a chore, I'm up to a good 40 minutes most days.
  11. 1PM ish lunch and again trying to go for a high fibre option, so brown bread and the like.
  12. Afternoon is left open and depends on where I am on other things. Do need to prioritise some stuff but really nothing is essential so anything goes.
  13. 5PM ish dinner although if I'm involved with something it can slip to 6.
  14. 7:30 make sure I have a last drink ... being nannied about getting up in the night to go to the toilet, but I suspect part of that is the medication rather than drinking too much.
  15. 10PM finish with TV and move over to a paper book winding down to try and get to sleep at 10:30 which gives me an 8 hour sleep target. 

Of cause some of this goes out the window if I manage to get out for the day and I am trying to do that at least one a week. In which case the physio has to b slotted in, although the brisk walk is normally covered whilst out.

TODO - need to modify style setting to actually display the list numbers.