It's 8:15 p.m., so I have very little time for a post. And my younger brother ─ who usually spends this night at the home of his girlfriend Bev ─ said when he left home this afternoon that he would probably be back this evening.
Apparently due to a frozen / burst water pipe, Bev's home has no running water. The house was sold late last year, and she has until the end of next month to vacate, so plumbing isn't a concern of the landlord.
It's a very old house ─ a duplex or triplex ─ that's only going to be demolished.
The house is also very chilly due to inadequate heating. Thus, due to the discomfort and absence of hot water, my brother isn't keen on staying there tonight.
And because Bev does not have to work tomorrow, he said he'd bring her here for tonight if she is willing.
I could have blogged this latter afternoon, but my eyes have been in dreadful condition due to overuse and inadequate sleep.
I needed to get out to do some local grocery shopping early this evening, or else we would be drinking our instant coffees black tomorrow. However, with my eyes as overwrought as they were, I needed to lie down and rest them.
I ended up bordering upon sleep, with the drooling proof of that claim.
The bedrest revitalized me sufficiently that I was able to get out and do the four-block hike to the market, and now here I am. It was about 7:30 p.m. when I set out.
My brother has been rather moderating his drinking this week. What that signifies is that he has not been staying out late enough for me to get to bed before he has returned home; nor has he been passing out, thereby allowing me an early exit from a late evening of T.V. with him.
We watch our shows via a T9 Android 8.1 TV box that he doesn't know how to operate, so I sit up with him until into the midnight hour fetching the episodes of shows that we watch.
Thus, I have been up late each night this week. And since I do not sleep in ─ nor even sleep through the night at all well ─ I tend to be shortchanged on sleep.
I am always anxious to get up early and get to work on the day's content assignment at whichever of my six websites that I have my latest post in development.
Overnight, I rose toward 3:00 a.m. just to turn on and log into my computer so that it would be all set for later use. And then after a little further sleep, I was up well before 6:00 a.m. to get at that task.
This is work that I will have no time to undertake during the day. Or at least, not Mondays through Fridays when we do not have a newspaper delivered.
My younger brother cannot use a computer, so without a newspaper to occupy him, that job falls to the T.V.
And because I am a softhearted S.O.B., I generally join him at 10:00 a.m. to start fetching entertainment with our Android TV Box. Otherwise, my brother only has the basic cable package of limited T.V. channels.
I have a couple of health-related topics to try and broach while I am still able.
Have you ever heard of horizontal gene transfer?
Until I read the following article, I was not much aware of it ─ and I did not have an appreciation of how the concept applied to us.
Believe it or not, microbes have the amazing ability to actually alter our genetic makeup to one degree or another; and it is a primary reason why we should not be genetically engineering our foods, nor be meddling and tampering with the same sort of manipulations at the genetic level of the organisms and insects that we deem to be threats to our crops.
But you will have to read the article for yourself ─ it attempts to cover an enormous amount of research territory, so please treat the article with some forbearance:
LifeSpa.com
My view is that the authour is attributing a little too much to the wisdom of ancient Ayurveda. It would suffice just to write of the gems of scientific research into this horizontal genetic transference area without putting all that effort into trying to convince the reader that all of this was already somehow understood by Ayurvedic elders.
Another rather interesting article I came across was one that practically glorified the antibiotic properties of a tropical fruit called jagua:
HSIonline.com
And then just when the reader becomes excited about perhaps acquiring some in supplemental form:
You won’t find it in the supplement aisle, either. (Don’t confuse the antibiotic version of the fruit with the pigment from unripened fruit, which is used as a natural dye.)
The article then segues away from the jagua fruit by saying that one of its spectacular components ─ genipen ─ is also found in some other plants, including the gardenia.
And since jagua is not commonly available to most of the world...well, let's just rely on gardenia extract instead.
I suppose that if money was no issue whatsoever, a steady supply of the fruit might be acquired. After all, it is resistant to spoilage due to its antimicrobial properties.
But I was distinctly disappointed.
There are no shortage of studies involving genipin, incidentally.
I don't know how well my Google searches will work for you, but if interested, you can try to see if you get the same results using these terms:
I do believe that I did see one website offering jagua juice for sale.
Anyway, here are a couple of other short articles on the jagua fruit ─ I just wish they didn't concern themselves so much with the tattooing aspect:
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My brother and his girlfriend Bev showed up not too long before 9:30 p.m., so I had to halt work on this post.
I took the following three photos while Bev was scrounging up something to eat at 9:33 p.m., after which we watched a movie ─ a 2014 Australian feature titled The Mule.
Concerning the movie, Wikipedia is quite wrong by my estimation in calling it a comedy. It did have some light touches and even an especially outrageous scene (as in "the mule" re-swallowing the 20 condoms of heroin that he had just passed while laying in bed, while an unconscious cop was seated on a chair nearby who was supposed to be monitoring the suspect), but it was sometimes very violent.
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