I got to bed ahead of 10:00 p.m. last evening, but the day's heat filled the upper house and made it difficult to find sleep. Also, I had no idea when my wife would be arriving home after her long day working at her friend's Thai restaurant.
As I recall, it was 2:17 a.m. when I checked the time and decided to get myself up to try and finish the post I have been working on for over two weeks at my website Siam-Longings.
I think that it was 2:32 a.m. when I heard my wife unlocking the front door ─ she was finally home. She wasted scant time in getting herself to bed.
I failed to complete the work I needed to get done on the website post before returning to bed shortly after 5:00 a.m. I could have stuck with the chore had it been a Saturday or Sunday, but I did not want to still be up when my eldest stepson rose to ready himself for work.
He usually rises around 6:00 a.m., but he can take as much as 45 minutes before he finally leaves. If I happened to be up, then I know he would be unlikely to lock the front door when he left, and thus it would be incumbent upon me to wait until he had gone before I could safely return to bed.
I had no desire to be sitting up that much longer, so I suspended work on the post.
When next I rose, it was perhaps around 8:50 a.m. My brother was only just finished with his morning shower and readying himself in his bedroom ere going downstairs to turn on the T.V. and have some instant coffee.
My wife dutifully rose around 10:00 a.m. to begin readying for another long day at the restaurant. She has an 11:00 a.m. start, but there is a fair drive to get to the business.
I had planned to tune in a movie at 10:00 a.m. for my brother and I to watch, using our T9 Android 8.1 TV Box that he is unable to operate. But he cautioned that he would soon be going out.
I thus selected something much shorter.
I never asked him what was afoot for him so early in the morning, and he was gone before 11:00 a.m. without offering an explanation. He never did return throughout the afternoon.
His early departure afforded me the chance to get back to work and finally get that Siam-Longings post published: Isan Betty\u0027s II.
Quite the bewildering title, is it not? I explain that perplexity in the post, for initially I had to figure out what to do about it myself.
Suffice here to say that "Betty\u0027s" is html text for "Betty's." But you'll have to check out the post for yourself to learn anything more.
With that out of the way, I dressed into a pair of gym shorts and runners, weighing in at around 188 pounds. Then I went out to the backyard toolshed and had some exercising out there, beginning with full range pull-ups.
I ought here to mention that early this morning when I was first working on my website post, I broke off to perform a five-minute plank ─ my fifth consecutive day with the strenuous ritual.
Did you know that singer Cher apparently claimed in the Fall of 2017 that she did planks ranging anywhere from three to five minutes most days of the week? She was 71 years old at the time.
I have no idea if she still does them.
That nugget wasn't my inspiration ─ I just want to maintain the core strength to do planks of that duration, and perhaps occasionally try for a personal best. I am 69 years old, but it seems to me that only a few years ago I performed a seven-minute plank.
However, back then I was doing quite a lot of exercising that involved my core, so maybe I really did manage it. It was a one-time performance, for I was not using planking as an exercise. I just wanted to see how long I could hold one.
Consequently, if I really did hold one for seven minutes, then I can take that as my personal best to this point in time.
Anyway, with my toolshed exercising over with, I then got in some sunning. We've got a lot of large white clouds floating about, but it was still overall very sunny and warm despite a strong breeze.
Wearing just my gym-style shorts, I slouched low into a lawn-chair or deckchair for just over half an hour while facing into the Sun; and then I stood with my back to the Sun for an equal length of time.
And that freed me up to have my day's first meal. I usually only eat twice, but I do tend to have two hot caffeinated beverages each day: a mug of a blend of instant coffee and unsweetened cocoa powder that I do sweeten with some honey, non-GMO cane brown sugar, and blackstrap molasses, and which I cream with liquid whipping cream.
I do not otherwise snack.
Believe me, a big mug of that instant coffee / cocoa powder mix is most sustaining! I only need two meals a day.
My youngest stepson must not have had to work today. While I was lying down mid-afternoon after my meal, I could hear someone lawn mowing, but it seemed to me that it was the effort of some neighbour.
A text from my wife had ruined my approach into a nap, so I finally got up and checked to see if maybe it was my stepson doing the yard work of his own volition ─ it was.
I took these three candid photos at 3:36 p.m. / 3:37 p.m.:
He's 21 years old.
The parched lawn didn't seem to me to need mowing ─ the only things growing high are some variety of dandelion-like plant that shoots up thin stalks with a smallish dandelion-like flower at the top end.
And what a good boy am I! I think that I have just found the plant identified as being cat's ear (Hypochaeris radicata).
I've wondered on the plant for some years! I had even speculated that maybe true dandelions become these plants when the weather is dry and hot, but the base leaves are too different.
Now speaking of plants, I have some articles that might be of interest if you have either cancer or psoriasis complicating your life.
Let's start off with an article telling of a plant known as (among other names) noni (Morinda citrifolia) ─ it may have strong anticancer properties:
HSIonline.com
I made an Amazon (U.S.) search at the top of this post just to see what would display when I used the botanical name "Morinda citrifolia" ─ and what the pricing for the products ranged around.
Wikipedia doesn't have much positive to say concerning noni, but that online encyclopedic source is ridiculously mainstream and notoriously unfriendly to anything relating to alternative medicine or healing.
Here are a couple of other articles on noni, but you can do your own research easily enough:
- CancerNetwork.com: Noni (Morinda citrifolia)
- WebMD.com: Noni: Uses, Side Effects, Interactions, Dosage, and Warning
The psoriasis article I have relates to a plant-derived formula that Amazon doesn't seem able to help with ─ something called Panchavalkala:
HSIonline.com
If you do an online search for Panchavalkala, you'll see quite a few studies display ─ evidently there is much to the compound.
So why is it so difficult to find any sources offering it for public sale? I didn't do an exhaustive search for sellers, but the few I came upon were all based in India.
I have one last article that I feel is worth linking to ─ it discusses the power of prayer:
LifeSpa.com
I believe in God and the value of prayer, but I am almost wholly negative about it as having ever done me any good. Sometimes I believe that God just doesn't give a fig about most people ─ and especially me included.
And that is my last word for today.
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