It was just about 12:30 a.m. when I was into my bed last night.
I hadn't shut down my computer ─ I had only selected for it to restart ─ so there was no need for me to rise into my night to turn it back on and log into it in order for it to be all warmed up for later use.
I find that I have to do that, or my old machine will very likely freeze up ─ I even have to disconnect the mouse immediately after logging in anytime my computer has been shut down for any length of time, for it has been my experience that the mouse's cursor seems to fix on something and cause a freeze.
But I've been running on something of a sleep deficit, so it wasn't until after 6:00 a.m. that I got myself out of bed this morning. My eldest stepson was already shut up in the bathroom as he readied himself for his workday ─ and his drive out to his Burnaby workplace (we live in Surrey).
We were to have an overcast day without any breaks in the cloud cover.
I always deal with my E-mail situation before I begin work on the day's content assignment at the post I have in progress at one of my six hosted websites, so it was awhile yet before that website work was undertaken.
Unfortunately, my younger brother had risen ere I was done, so I felt constrained to join him at 10:00 a.m. to operate our T9 Android 8.1 TV Box to fetch up some entertainment. He doesn't know how to operate it, and thus can only amuse himself with the weak offerings available through our basic cable package.
Yestermorn I had to cut short a documentary we were watching ─ a Telus technician had arrived to diagnose and repair what was wrong with our dead houseline.
So I tuned that worthy feature back in and resumed it where we had left off: Abacus: Small Enough to Jail.
That's one of the lovely features of many of the streaming 'apps' used in Android TV devices. My current favourite is called Titanium TV, and it had to be downloaded by me into the Android TV Box.
A user can watch a T.V. episode or some other feature like this documentary or even a movie; and if it is necessary to cut out of the production for whatever reason, and the viewer is unable to return until days later to watch it again, the 'app' will usually remember exactly where the viewer had left off and offer a prompt on whether it should start over or just resume.
Anyway, we watched a few shows until deep into the noon-hour, and then my brother was ready to seek a rest before he would be heading off for the afternoon to go drinking somewhere.
I wanted to have my day's first meal before I sought my own nap, and thus it wasn't until something like 1:32 p.m. that I was back into bed. And I did nap, but probably wan't in bed more than around 70 minutes ─ definitely less than 1½ hours.
My brother was gone by the time I was back out of my bedroom. However, my youngest stepson had been home all the while, and was still present.
I read about a potential herbal solution to sleeping troubles, and I am curious enough about it to be considering giving it a try.
I've used melatonin, but cannot notice that it has any effect on me whatsoever. I've never tried herbs before, though ─ I can recollect that plants like chamomile and lavender, for instance, have reputations in the context of aiding sleep.
But this article makes this particular plant sound like it may be a surer bet:
HSIonline.com
I checked out a few other websites for other articles ─ I will include four of them, but none are as effusive about lemon balm as is the one above:
- WebMD.com: LEMON BALM
- SleepJunkies.com: USING LEMON BALM AS A SLEEP AID
- MedicineNet.com: Melissa officinalis
- TheGreenLife.ca: 5 herbs for better sleep
In addition, you can have a look at some of the various studies that have included lemon balm ─ refer to ScienceDirect.com: Melissa officinalis.
As you will see if you take a look at those studies, lemon balm's potential has figured into far more research than for just aiding sleep ─ this rather increases lemon balm's value, I would suggest.
But I am notoriously shy on disposable free income ─ most of my monthly pension goes toward the house mortgage. My wife and her two sons only help out when I let them know how seriously underfunded the chequing account is that the mortgage gets debited from.
I might actually never get around to trying any ─ I would have to order it through Amazon and of course charge it to my credit card that hasn't had a debt balance below $1,200 in a few years, so I hate adding to that burden.
Nevertheless, I did do an Amazon search at the bottom of this post just to see what resulted, and get a pricing idea.
Now speaking of my wife and her two sons, early last year they arranged a small reunion in Bali with five of their Thailand family members.
Here are a few photos from that trip. These were taken on January 30, 2018 ─ and this is my wife:
I remained home to worry about the monthly mortgage, as I always do.
I still have to create a post at my private. blog, so I shall say no more here.
No comments:
Post a Comment