I had hoped to get out early last evening to do some grocery shopping; and to that end, I had sought my bed to rest up for the enterprise.
But I must have lapsed into a nap, and it was well after 7:00 p.m. when I checked the time.
As I feared, my younger brother was home and watching T.V. I would be going nowhere.
He surprised me by retaining consciousness the entire evening. For me, that meant that I was to enjoy two cans of the strong (8% alcohol) beer that I keep in stock.
To lead off our entertainment, I used our T9 Android 8.1 TV Box to fetch up an episode of Vera ─ we have now just begun watching the second season (or series).
At the episode's finish, I then tuned in season nine of The Walking Dead ─ we binged on the first three episodes of that wonderful series.
And then we capped the night with an episode of The Ranch. We're now into season three, and thus watched an episode titled "Fresh out of Forgiveness."
It was 1:06 a.m. by the time I was into my bed. I had realized that I was unlikely to have any time to waste awaiting the loading and warming up of my computer if I shut it down before getting to bed, so I just restarted it instead of having it shut down.
That was wise. I never became awake enough overnight to care about checking the time until 5:30 a.m.
And what a nice dream I was having, too. But I won't take the time to try and work out what it was about ─ suffice to say that it seemed to involve a beautiful and playful young blonde policewoman who very much resembled actress Jennifer Aniston.
I had the day's content assignment before me for the post I am developing at one of my six hosted websites, so I wanted to complete that task. If all goes well, I can finish and finally publish the post tomorrow.
My eldest stepson rose around 6:00 a.m. to ready himself for his drive to work, although he did not actually leave until maybe 6:45 a.m.
I had my concerns that my brother would be getting up before I had finished my work on the post, but this proved to be one of those mornings in which he rose an hour later than usual ─ in other words, instead of rising around maybe 8:30 a.m., he didn't rise until perhaps 9:30 a.m.
I don't know exactly when he rose ─ I had returned to my bed well after 9:00 a.m., but before he seemed to have roused as yet.
Normally during the week I join him at the T.V. at 10:00 a.m. to operate our Android TV Box (he does not know how to use the device), but that was not going to happen today. It was well past 11:00 a.m. before I roused and checked the time.
It was such a good nap, I had trouble bringing it to an end!
I never did join my brother.
First I had a bath; and then I got busy responding to an E-mail here at my computer. Deep into the noon-hour my brother wordlessly returned to his bedroom to rest up before taking off for the afternoon to end up drinking somewhere.
We actually never communicated a word with one another. I'm rather wondering if he thought that I was wroth with him as I often am due to his drunken conduct the evening before, but that was not so on this occasion.
The day was quite sunny, so at 1:07 p.m. I was out in the backyard and slouched low into a deck- or lawn-chair, beginning just over 40 minutes of facing directly into the Sun.
I was barefooted, but otherwise clothed.
When I returned into the house around 2:00 p.m., I found that my brother had gone. I hope he gets in a good walk at some park somewhere before he begins his carousing.
My youngest stepson has an afternoon shift, and headed away afoot without a word around 2:40 p.m. at latest ─ he had only just gotten up.
It is now 2:56 p.m. I am going to take a break, for I wish to have some exercising out in the backyard tool-shed and then eat something for the first time today.
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I was wrong about my youngest stepson ─ he was back here by 2:58 p.m. He must only have hiked over to a nearby convenience store.
My exercise session was disappointing. I think I'm suffering a possible animal protein deficit.
But let's briefly talk about vitamin D ─ even though I sat out in the Sun today for at least 40 minutes, I will still take two 1,000-I.U. hits today of vitamin D3 supplementation.
One doctor maintains that we should take as much as 10,000 I.U.s daily year-round ─ sunshine or not.
In the following article, he presents his case as to why he believes there is no risk of over-supplementing (or overdosing, if you prefer):
DrMicozzi.com
Personally, I don't see the need to take the full daily dose that he recommends on those days in which I have been sunning myself.
Incidentally, I do also take magnesium citrate supplements ─ the current brand I take are 150-mg tablets, and I take two of those each day.
Returning to the topic of protein, I've read recently that research has found that seniors actually require more daily protein than do younger adults.
Of course, we're talking about younger adults who most decidedly are not bodybuilders, I am sure!
I'm 69 years old, so I know I have been falling short the past couple of days because there just isn't any animal-source protein at hand here in the house, apart from some extra old cheddar cheese.
The last two times that we have had eggs in the house, I bought them. My brother and my two stepsons seem reluctant to do the same ─ probably because of how quickly eggs disappear when there are any.
Something else a lot of seniors are concerned about is their cognitive state. Nobody wants to find themselves slipping into mind-obliterating dementia.
To that end, I have a pair of articles that each tout a means of potentially forfending that curse.
Let's start off with this article which heralds a supplement I've never heard of:
HSIonline.com
I made two Amazon searches to see what products resulted.
The first search I did was using the term "serrapeptase enzyme" and it can be found at the top of this post ─ I don't see any results, but I left it there in case there is some sort of delayed response in play; the second search I made was using the term "serratiopeptidase," and it is at the bottom of this post.
The article had said that the substance was able to dissolve proteins, so I reckon that's why products advertise it for reducing scar tissue.
The article also said to seek out the highest "enzyme activity units as a measure of its potency." That is going to mean the number of SUs or SPUs each tablet or capsule contains ─ the higher, the better.
As for an explanation of what those are, refer to this apparently 2013 article at Serrapeptase.org titled Serrapeptase and enzyme activity.
So although consumers can expect SUs and SPUs to be essentially the same insofar as strength is concerned, we probably shouldn't even bother looking at any products that only identify the strength in I.U.s.
International Units (I.U.s) are great for measuring the potency of things like vitamin E and vitamin D, but the measurement is essentially meaningless where enzyme activity measurements are concerned.
Or so was my understanding.
The second report I have on protection against the development of dementia is this:
JacksDailyDose.com
Here are a couple of other reports on that mushroom research:
BBC.com
Mercola.com
So get an early start on protection ─ especially where the mushrooms are concerned, since they are only being presented as having effect on "mild" cognitive decline.
If you wait too long and the condition becomes more serious, mushrooms won't likely have adequate punch.
If they work at all, of course! I didn't get the impression that the articles were declaring mushrooms to be a 'sure thing.'
To help bring this post to a close, I now want to present two sets of photos.
My wife is currently over in Thailand to visit her mother. The following set of photos were posted by my wife to her Facebook account on the evening of April 6 (if I made my calculations correctly).
The setting is the front 'porch' area of my wife's family home. She is the lady near the bottom left corner in the photos. The only other person I know is her old friend Daisha ─ he is the person just outside of the porch and wearing what almost appears to me to be a wine-coloured apron.
Everyone had been eating and drinking for quite some while, for there were an earlier set of photos featuring the very same people at the very same location during the broad daylight.
By the way, I have no idea who the Farang is:
The second set of photos were taken on February 25, 2018 at the wedding of a niece of my wife ─ I suspect that the photos were probably taken in some venue within the city of Udon Thani.
The three photos are of the beautiful bride and her groom:
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