Just a few minutes after 9:00 p.m. last evening, my younger brother arrived home after being away since late in the morning on Monday two days earlier.
He had gone to visit his friend Frank over on Vancouver Island.
And so my evening peace had come to an end, and I was to sit up until late into the midnight hour operating our T9 Android 8.1 TV Box (my brother doesn't know how to use the device).
It did not take too very long for him to display his bellicosity born of the beer he had been and was still imbibing. He succeeded in rousing such a furious disdain in me that even this morning I was afire with the indignation that he is so able to generate in me.
I never got to bed until after 1:00 a.m., but I seemed to sleep well enough until ahead of 5:00 a.m. when I rose just to turn on and log into my computer to have it all loaded and warmed up for later use.
As I recall, I expected that I would likely be back up around a half-hour later, which was to be something like 5:10 a.m. ─ I wanted to get started on the day's content assignment for the post I am newly constructing at one of my six hosted websites.
I did not expect that when next I checked the time, it was to be something like 6:48 a.m. ─ I had fallen asleep so deeply that I had never heard my eldest stepson readying himself for his workday. He uses the bathroom that is immediately adjacent to my bedroom.
But he had risen and already left for work by the time I made that time check, and I had been oblivious.
It was lightly raining outside, and would do so for most of the day.
I pluckily stuck at the website work even though I had my concerns that my younger brother would be getting up anytime after 8:00 a.m. But I think it was around 9:30 a.m. that my work was done, and I was able to return to bed for some further needed sleep.
I needed it badly ─ thoughts of suicide had been possessing me especially heavily all the time that I had been up.
Also, it sounded like my brother was possibly getting himself up at that point ─ I wanted to be abed before he showed himself.
I managed a good, deep nap, and found it to be something like 10:48 a.m. when I next checked the time. It took a few minutes to rally enough to do it, but I soon got myself out of bed.
I opened my bedroom door...and discovered that my younger brother had still not emerged from his own bedroom. He was not to do so until maybe around 11:30 a.m.
Just how much drinking had he been doing? All I had were two cans of strong (8% alcohol) beer last evening, and nothing before that until as far back as Sunday evening.
Usually during the week, I start operating our Android TV Box for his benefit around 10:00 a.m., so we were to get an unusually late start on our early T.V. viewing. However, that was not to mean that the viewing was to be truncated ─ he wasn't interested in calling a halt and returning to his bedroom for some further rest until we had watched three episodes of series we follow.
During that time, my youngest stepson had risen and readied himself, and then headed away afoot for his afternoon shift at work ─ his yellow pack on his back.
I never did get time for more rest.
Anyway, my brother fortified himself with his rest; and then toward mid-afternoon bade me adieu and headed out for the remainder of the afternoon to end up drinking somewhere.
As for why I was feeling so despondent early this morning and last night before I retired, it was not all due to him; some of it had to do with an E-mail I received from Amazon U.K.
I only have two Amazon affiliate memberships ─ one with Amazon U.S. and the other with Amazon U.K.
I don't happen to specialize in any U.K. content in my six websites nor this blog, so I don't receive much interest from folks in the U.K.
Consequently, my Amazon U.K. advertisements hardly ever get any clicks. I'm lucky to have six clicks in a month.
Well, before I went to bed last night, I found this from Amazon U.K. in my E-mail Inbox:
Effective in 7 days, Amazon is terminating your Associates account as well as the Operating Agreement that governs it.Note - this communication is regarding only the account listed in the subject line of this email.Why?You haven't referred any qualifying sales for more than 365 days.What's next?You must stop using the Content and Amazon Marks and promptly remove all links to the Amazon site. You will be paid on the regular schedule for any outstanding fees that have accrued prior to this notice.You are welcome to reapply at any time by visiting Associates Central.Thank you for your participation in the Amazon Associates Program.
Yeah, right.
I felt like they were 'kicking me while I was down' ─ it was not a good time to get that sort of notification, and one so imperious.
"You must stop using the Content and Amazon Marks and promptly remove all links to the Amazon site."
And how the hell am I supposed to do that ─ remove all links to their site? I probably have their bloody links in several thousand posts.
I don't give a damn that those old ads may be generating a few potential future sales for Amazon U.K. that I won't benefit from ─ so where is this demand that I "must" "promptly remove all links" to their site?
To try and do so would take me days and days of full-time work, scouring all of my old posts.
I'm not going to be doing that.
What are the miserable pricks going to do if I just do nothing?
They never paid me a cent, yet I provided loads of free advertising for them. It's not my fault none of it generated any sales.
If they want to cast me out, then so bloody be it! But they can go to blazes if they think I am going to spend days and days of full-time work for absolutely nothing just to remove their infernal advertising links.
Screw 'em ─ most brutally.
Now that I'm 'all riled up,' I want to post a link to what I found was an interesting article concerning the measles vaccine ─ specifically, the profound madness that is building to force everybody to submit to being vaccinated:
NorthStarNutritionals.com
I'm unsure why, but that same article can be found here.
Regardless of that, if you read or scanned the article, did you notice the claim that prior to the release of a first measles vaccine in 1963, the disease killed on average about 400 people annually in the U.S.?
The article further claims that the fatalities would probably be even fewer now if there was still no vaccine. This would likely be due to better medical advances and all that goes with it.
The CDC actually bears out that claim about numbers, although if we look as far back as 1912 and for the next decade when healthcare and general nutritional knowledge were relatively poor compared to the 1950s and 1960s, there were maybe 6,000 annual deaths in the U.S. each year attributable to measles.
But from maybe 1953 to 1963, the number had dropped down to 400 or 500 deaths a year.
See CDC.gov: Measles History.
So if only 400 or 500 folks died annually from measles from roughly 1953 to 1963, it definitely does seem reasonable that the rate would be far lower today.
Heck, according to Statista.com, since the year 2000 there have been 4,000 to 5,000 annual cases of death simply from choking (over 5,000 such deaths in 2017): Number of deaths due to choking in the United States from 1945 to 2017.
And check out how many people die annualy in the U.S. from these leading 10 causes as identified by MedicalNewsToday.com: The top 10 leading causes of death in the United States.
So why all this hysteria about vaccinating absolutely everyone against measles? It has never been a major killer by any stretch of the imagination.
If we accept that 500 (and not just 400) were dying annually from measles in the U.S. up until 1963, then compare that to weekend traffic deaths. You would have to look all the way back to before 1928 to find an entire year with fewer deaths than that ─ just on the weekends alone!
Supposedly 26,557 people died in 1928 from traffic accidents. Divide that by 52 weeks, and we have an average of 510.7 traffic deaths each week. (See Wikipedia.com: Motor vehicle fatality rate in U.S. by year.)
So please people! Shut up about measles being some enormous life threat!
I want to link to one further article ─ one that has nothing to do with measles or vaccinations. This concerns colon cancer:
DrMicozzi.com
I'm 69 and have never had anything like a colonoscopy, so information like this is something I really take to heart ─ I haven't any other choice.
I finish today's post with an image that Google Photos created today from a photo I took exactly six years ago on April 18, 2013:
That's a strip of garden in our backyard, and just beneath the kitchen and dining room windows.
This is the original photo:
I went out there this dreary afternoon and took this comparison photo:
Six years ago we had at least 20 luscious tulip blooms. This year, there is only that one that is bedraggled from the wet weather and hanging down over the wooden border to the garden; plus two others that are so darned ratty that they look like something had either been eating them, or else they are diseased.
By the way, that orange 'ball' is an actual orange ─ an organic orange that had begun to mould, so I put it out there to decompose.
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