My wife arrived home last evening from wherever it is that she likely stays in Vancouver, for she had to work today ─ and the drive to her job location is far closer from here than it would have been from Vancouver, especially with all of the snow that had fallen over the day and evening to that point.
My younger brother told me around 10:00 a.m. this morning that he had heard on a T.V. weather report that our Surrey may have received as much as 33 centimetres, which is well over a foot.
I had stayed up into the midnight hour last night operating our T9 Android 8.1 TV Box for my brother and I to watch episodes of the T.V. shows that we follow, but my wife had gone to bed well before.
When I joined her in bed, I think that she may still have been awake.
I suppose that I didn't sleep too poorly, but I rose soon after 5:00 a.m. to get to work on the day's content assignment for the post I have in development at one of my six hosted websites. I stuck with it until the task was done, and then bedded down here on the floor in front of my computer so as not to disrupt my wife's sleep ─ she would have an 11:00 a.m. start at the restaurant where she works, and there sure was lots of snow out there.
It wasn't quite 8:00 a.m. when I bedded down, and my cellphone's alarm was set for 9:59 a.m. for me to ensure that my wife was not going to sleep in.
By the way, her eldest son ─ the 24-year-old ─ blew off the day and never bothered to get up for work. Even my brother found this distasteful ─ a lack of drive or ambition on someone who still lives at home and doesn't have to fend for himself with all of the associated expenses that comes of having one's own home.
The younger 21-year-old lad is extremely conscientious...but he of course has to be. His employer would fire him if he pulled the stunts his older brother does. It seems rare that the older lad actually puts in a full workweek.
It perplexes me how the older lad keeps his tenure, for he has worked at the same business for a number of years.
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My post was interrupted by the early evening arrival home of my younger brother, and this resulted in a full suspension of further work on this post. I am finishing it on the following day, but I will predate it at publication.
I had wanted to delve into some health-related topics, so I will have to get at that now. Let's lead off with the most common form of psoriasis ─ plaque psoriasis ─ and an article touting a tree called neem (Azadirachta indica) that is supposed to bring remarkable relief:
HSIonline.com
I sought some other articles, and was surprised by how doubtful this one at Healthline.com was in its conclusion: Neem Oil: Psoriasis Healer?
An article at WebMD.com titled simply Neem was considerably more helpful (despite being mainstream) than the Healthline.com article. Don't bother using the "next page" option at the end of the WebMD.com "Overview" ─ just click on the several options near the start of the article to arrive at the successive pages of the topic. For example, "Side effects" and "Interactions" can be informative areas ─ and so can the reader comments, since they tend to come from actual users of the product.
I also found a 2014 report at DermatologyTimes.com to be positive: Some unconventional therapies may be worth a closer look.;
The next subject is of considerable interest to me because I am a poor sleeper, and I am 69 years old.
A very recently published study involving 119 relatively mentally-healthy seniors (aged 60 and over) were monitored for the amount of their slow-wave or deep sleep at night, and how it related to the quantities of tau protein they were accumulating ─ cognitively-declined brains tend to have what are considered to be abnormally high levels of tau protein.
These articles report on that study ─ the first reference is in two parts, although the second article segues into another implication of poor sleep :
JacksDailyDose.com
NewAtlas.com
EverydayHealth.com
ScienceDaily.com
I have to express that the following quote from the last reference annoys me:
"The people with increased tau pathology were actually sleeping more at night and napping more in the day, but they weren't getting as good quality sleep."
ARE these people actually sleeping more at night, and also napping in the day? Or instead might they be spending a heck of a lot of time laying in bed at night, unable to sleep? ─ and that's a large part of why they nap in the day.
This has never been made clear to me in studies when it is claimed that we should be getting around eight hours of sleep at night. In order for me to be asleep ─ that is, unconscious ─ for eight hours, I might have to lie in bed for 12 or more hours.
Is that, then, what I am supposed to be doing? Or is it the eight hours of laying in bed that's important, even though my sleep will be of the fractured sort and might total out to four or five hours of actual unconsciousness if I am fortunate?
Being unconsciously asleep for eight hours straight is beyond my ability to fathom ─ for me as the subject sleeper, anyway.
I will finish this by adding one further article for anyone who might be vulnerable to panic attacks and hyperventilation:
DrMicozzi.com
I took some photos of our miserable snowfall. This first batch were taken between 7:43 a.m. and 7:45 a.m.; and they lead off with a few shots through the living room window, while the others are all various shots of the backyard taken from the open sliding glass door leading out onto our backyard sundeck:
And then as my wife was headed away on her drive to work, I took these photos between 10:31 a.m. and 10:33 a.m.:
She was back home late in the evening ─ and had even picked up her youngest son (probably from his workplace) ─ so all went well.
And to think that I had seriously believed it likely that we were going to get through Winter without any snowfall around here this season for the first time in my memory!
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