I had a fairly early evening yesterday, finding myself in bed no later than 10:05 p.m.
Sleep did take its time visiting me, but that finally did happen.
Since the entire point of this new blog is to withhold family members' names and the main daily details about them, I described in my old ─ and now private ─ blog what thereafter ensued.
It must suffice here for me to say that I had risen ere yet 3:45 a.m. and was soon at work on the new post I am constructing at one of my six hosted websites.
I held fast at the task, and eventually fulfilled the day's assignment.
My wife was to have to work today at her friend's Thai restaurant, so I deemed it too late into the morning for me to risk her essential sleep ─ it was probably around 7:30 a.m.
She has an 11:00 a.m. start time, and usually likes to be up from bed an hour before that to ready herself and then undertake the rather long drive. And it had been very, very late when she got to bed ─ possibly as many as 4½ hours after my own bedtime.
I had no recourse but to bed down here on the floor just in front of my computer, which is kept in a small room next to my bedroom.
I had considered the chesterfield in the living room downstairs, but my younger brother usually rises around 8:30 a.m. and turns on the T.V. practically as soon as he goes downstairs.
I felt with no sound option but to set my cellphone's alarm for 9:59 a.m., and do my best here on the floor ─ I was experiencing a sleep deficit, and was close to developing a headache. This had been the situation since late last afternoon, so my time sleeping in bed overnight had not been anywhere near adequate.
I am a broken or fragmented sleeper.
Sleep is never fast to arrive when curled up on the floor, but it came. And my cellphone's alarm had reached the end of its cycle by the time I became aware enough to recognize what the sound was ─ I was wearing earplugs and my blindfold.
I got myself up and tossed aside my makeshift bed, then opened the room's door to see that my wife was still shut up in our bedroom.
I would give her about 10 minutes.
I went downstairs to fix up my day's first hot caffeinated beverage, and then I joined my brother to spare him having to watch further basic cable programming on the T.V.
When my wife failed to emerge from out bedroom after at least 10 minutes had passed, I opened the door and softly asked, "Do you have to get up?"
"Ten more minutes," she nearly begged.
I returned downstairs, but she was to get herself up after a few minutes.
And after she freshened up, it was nigh 10:40 a.m. when she left us for the drive to work.
The day was to be sunny and cold. I heard that the temperature is supposed to drop to -9º C. overnight. That's darned chilly for around here ─ it hasn't even hit 0º C. in a number of nights.
The wee dusting of snow that we got yesterday and last evening is still laying on the ground. I took some photos of it yesterday just for the record, for it was the very first such dusting this entire Fall / Winter season, and I cannot remember such a scarcity before.
I took a few more today for the same reason, but I won't offer them until later in this post.
Let's first return to my time watching T.V. with my younger brother.
On Saturday afternoon, I had discovered three more 'apps' that are based upon the now-defunct superb 'app' called Terrarium TV that we used to use up until sometime last October to fetch the episodes of T.V. shows that we follow.
Terrarium TV was killed by its developer; and when any of us who had it downloaded into our Android TV devices obeyed an update prompt, this served to kill each of our own downloaded copies of Terrarium TV.
In November, I believe it was, I learned of an 'app' based upon Terrarium TV, and which was called called Movie Play Red; so I downloaded it and we have been relying upon it ever since for almost all of our T.V. shows.
Thus, when on Saturday I learned that there were three more 'apps' based upon Terrarium TV. I downloaded them all: Cinema; CyberFlix TV, and Titanium TV.
Movie Play Red had failed us in locating any links to the first episode of last year's revival of Murphy Brown; and it had also stymied us by offering no links for episode six of The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco.
Yet these three new 'apps' appeared to be able to find those missing links.
Alas, I was to discover today that all of the working links for the premiere episode of 2018's Murphy Brown were misfiles ─ every bloody one of them was for the old series.
As a result, we have still not watched any of season 11 because we will not begin doing so without first seeing the premiere episode.
Fortunately, The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco was a different story ─ the link I selected was exactly what we were after.
So I am still thrilled about the three new 'apps.' However, I still haven't tried them to see if they can find sources for the premiere episode of Banshee ─ another one that Movie Play Red has always produced nothing for.
Anyway, we finished up watching our shows just after 1:00 p.m., by which time my younger brother was ready for his rest ─ something he usually seeks ere taking off for the afternoon.
I needed more sleep, so I soon sought a nap. And when I rose after 3:00 p.m., my brother had gone.
I fixed up my day's second hot caffeinated beverage; and when done, I braved the backyard tool-shed and had some exercise out there.
My day's first meal soon enough followed...and here we are.
Any regular visitor to this new blog of mine has probably realized that I link to articles lauding various herbal and related supplements for a diverse array of health benefits ─ even though I admit that I can only speculate on them from afar, for my pension income is too inadequate to allow me to give them a try.
And so it is with this article extolling a supplement I would love to have in supply ─ Pycnogenol:
HSIonline.com
Perhaps nothing can help my rapidly deteriorating vision, however.
I am curious about that claim that the unidentified French forest in that article has largely remained untouched because of being deemed uninhabitable ─ how can that be? Here in North America, that sort of challenge is exactly what would draw pioneering adventurers seeking to get away from the rest of the world.
Are there no such pioneering spirits in France?
Whatever the case, you can easily find lots of other articles about Pycnogenol. Nevertheless, I will link to three:
- EyePromise.com: Pycnogenol®: What Should You Know?
- News-Medical.net: Pycnogenol can improve microcirculation, retinal edema and visual acuity, reveals study
- NutraIngredients-USA.com: Recognition for Pycnogenol role in eye health
But let's move on.
When I read articles telling of studies like the one these three speak of, it makes me long to be able to live somewhere in which I could raise my own vegetables, and have lots of fruit trees and berry bushes:
JacksDailyDose.com
DentalHealth.org
HealthMedicinet.com
Blueberries can lower the risk of tooth decay as dentists call for the fruit to be used in mouthwash
I have been extremely fortunate over my adult life, for even though I do not have beautiful teeth cosmetically, I do not suffer from trouble like tooth aches and such.
What should be remarkable in saying that is this: I have not been to a dentist since 1974.
Therefore I need any of Nature's help that I can get!
I found the following article to be practically exciting, for I am aware that we all ought to be encouraging the development of nitric oxide (NO) within our bodies.
I had thought that this was best achieved by breathing exclusively through the nose while exercising or engaging in any physical activity, but apparently there is a means that may be even better and requires no physical exertion:
LifeSpa.com
I had read that article back on January 24, but I 'lost' it until today. I'm going to bookmark it and then study the video explaining just how to perform this simple nitric oxide method.
Thanks to my wife, nearly two years ago I learned how fantastically easy it is to make my own naturally fermented vegetables ─ all I use are the vegetables, water, and Himalayan salt (I avoid other types of salt because of the prevalence of plastic particles in them).
I was never much on the taking of probiotics because, frankly, I couldn't afford them on my pension.
And now thanks to articles such as the following, I understand that taking probiotics as a sort of nutritional supplement might actually be unwise for most of us:
DrMicozzi.com
I had previously read elsewhere that because commercial probiotics tend to stress a few major strains of bacteria, the specialized colonies these few strains form within our gut (and even on our teeth) are not to our advantage.
We need a widespread population of all kinds of beneficial bacteria ─ not an exclusive few strains that will do their best to dominate any others that may be just as beneficial.
Variety is always the key in all things.
Okay, enough of the health-related topics for today.
Google Photos notified me today that it has created another collage from photos I have in a Google Photos album ─ the collage is supposed to be commemorating this day (February 4) last year:
The photos were taken when my wife was back at the family home in Thailand on a visit.
These are the original photos, beginning with the left column ─ all I can offer by way of location is that my wife had not likely strayed too very far from the city of Udon Thani:
I think the woman in this next photo is someone my wife has always identified to me as being her "sister-cousin":
Now the second column:
There were three others of similar rock formations ─ they must have some significance I am unaware of.
Okay, now the photos I took this afternoon at approximately 4:39 p.m. of the lingering dusting of snow that we received yesterday. The first three photos are of our backyard:
Google Photos went ahead and created this panorama from those three photos:
This final photo was taken from in front of our front door and looking out toward the cul-de-sac we live in ─ the time was approximately 4:41 p.m.:
And that should do it for today's post ─ I still have to complete one at my private blog before my younger brother returns home for the evening, and it is already well into the evening!
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