My hunch yesterday proved correct ─ my younger brother came home that evening instead of staying overnight at his girlfriend Bev's home as he generally does at the end of his Saturdays.
And so we watched some episodes of the T.V. shows we follow, tuning them in via our T9 Android 8.1 TV Box. And probably because he had an arrangement for today in which he was to hook up with some others for a midday smorgasbord at some casino, he opted to end the evening of T.V. at midnight.
I think he said that he was supposed to make this social connection around 11:30 a.m. today, so there was definitely not going to be any napping.
I had shut down my computer prior to going to bed, so overnight I was going to have to turn it back on and log into it to have it ready for later use. I do this because it sometimes freezes if I do not leave it alone to get itself all set up ere I use it ─ I find that I also have to disconnect the mouse.
Anyway, I did this when I became awake enough overnight to think of it ─ possibly before 3:00 a.m.; but I was dreadfully sleepy. When I returned to bed, I was to sleep further, and then checked the time again before day had dawned, but I was still too sleepy to care to rise to tackle the day's content assignment for the post I wanted to finally get published today at my hosted website Thai-Iceland.
I lost consciousness for another small span of time, and then I checked the time a few minutes after 6:40 a.m., a little surprised that it had become so late.
I likely could have slept even more, but I got myself up to avoid wasting my morning. I had plans for the day.
But I did complete the post, and now it is finally published: Iceland Plants.
My younger brother had meanwhile risen, and went downstairs to have his instant coffees while he read the Sunday morning edition of The Province that I subscribe to. And he actually got himself ready and headed away for his assignation before I had yet returned to bed for my nap.
I napped, but I wasn't likely abed for much more than an hour.
The day is brilliant out there, with a lot of sunshine that is enhanced in its brilliance through its reflection by the snow that is still blanketing everything.
I have been torn on just which errands I most need to run today, for I cannot perform all of them. And it is rare for me to do those things that I need to do anytime during the week, making it unlikely that I will do anything else until next Sunday.
And then it struck me that tomorrow may be a statutory holiday here in British Columbia ─ and so I have since determined the truth of this. Tomorrow will be Family Day.
The reason that I would be unlikely to go anywhere during the week is because I have to do so by walking, and I detest the busy hustling of the workday / weekday world. However, since tomorrow will be a public holiday, it won't be much worse than a Sunday ─ I can get out and discharge whatever errands I do not choose to do today.
Something else now.
Much is made of inadequate blood sugar control that is becoming a rampant problem due to how gluttonous people are when it comes to carbohydrate consumption.
Anyone diagnosed with a blood sugar problem might find the following article of benefit:
HSIonline.com
At the top of this post I did an Amazon search of "AMPK" just to see what would turn up, for that article did not specifically suggest seeking AMPK supplements.
Apparently I missed the entire point of the article ─ it was about AMPK's activation within us, for it is an enzyme that we are supposed to be naturally producing. And that was why the article finished by mentioning eight effective foods and related substances that are able to stimulate AMPK production by our bodies.
As the Amazon search reveals, there are no shortage of products purporting to contain AMPK-enhancing ingredients.
Here are a couple of other articles about AMPK ─ the first article talks about a fairly recent study, whereas the second article is from 2014 and is very comprehensive:
- ScienceDaily.com: Nutrients may reduce blood glucose levels
- LifeExtension.com: AMPK
A second health-related topic I want to bring forth concerns the health benefits of ghee:
LifeSpa.com
I have a small caution concerning that article's link to the Ancient Organics brand of ghee that the article is hyping. I attempted to check it out just to see how wretchedly expensive it was likely to be. But in that attempt at access, my computer's copy of the Malwarebytes software blocked the site. Yet when I made another attempt a few minutes later, there was no problem.
So I don't know what was going on.
The product advertised is not quite as expensive as I was concerned about, but it is still far too much for me. Even without any shipping costs, at $22.45 U.S. for an eight-ounce container that purportedly only offers 16 servings, that is a luxury beyond my monthly pension's ability to support.
I would need two jars to cover just one serving a day for a month...and paying $45 U.S. for what amounts to be a mere month's supply of clarified butter is, frankly, ridiculous.
And my gosh! ─ I did a ghee search at Amazon Canada and found the same product, but in a 16-ounce container. So that would be just over a month's supply at a serving a day. The cost?
$58.70 Canadian.
No thanks. I can't be paying that every blinking month just for some clarified butter.
I bought some ghee for the first time last year in a local market. It made no claim about being organic nor from grass-fed cows ─ I just wanted to give the stuff a try. And since I don't buy organic or grass-fed butter, I didn't see why the ghee would be any more unsafe.
I used it as if it was butter, but it did have lots of separated oil that you would not be able to make a sandwich with unless you ate the sandwich in a bowl ─ which is actually what I do, for my sandwiches tend to be gloriously complicated and sloppy affairs.
I eventually used it all, and have not gotten around to buying any more. It was quite inexpensive ─ that wasn't the problem.
Rather, even though I use lots and lots of non-organic butter, for some reason I found myself fixated on the fact that the ghee wasn't organic or from grass-fed cows.
Anyway, you can see the results of a ghee search at Amazon at the base of this post, if you don't happen to have any markets around you that sells ghee.
I have a few photos now that I want to present ─ they were all taken on January 30, 2018 in Bali. My wife and her two sons had arranged a small reunion there with five of their Thailand family members. (I didn't go ─ I can't afford to travel.)
My wife and both of her sons are featured ─ the youngest lad was 20 years old and is wearing the dark clothes; his older brother is shirtless and 23 years old at the time:
oooooooooooooo
Well, I made it out and got some of my errands over with.
I left home no later than 3:37 p.m., I would say, and hiked the mile or so over to Surrey Place (Central City) where I bought a $20 scratch lottery ticket for my wife ─ her birthday is later this week. Somehow, I forgot to also buy a birthday card.
Tomorrow I will get out for some wine for her.
Anyway, upon buying the lottery ticket, I continued on the quarter-mile or so to Save-On-Foods and did some grocery shopping.
Then taking a different route home, I visited the outdoor ATM at the Coast Capital Savings Federal Credit Union building over by the King George SkyTrain Station and deposited the monthly expenses reconciliation cheque that my younger brother had given me a couple of weeks ago.
From there, home was something under a mile away, and I was back here just ahead of 5:00 p.m.
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