I have no idea who this delightfully provocative young woman in the photo above is. Any photo I am able to find that has a caption just says that she is a circus strongwoman or "iron woman," and the photo perhaps taken in the year 1905.
But on to today's post....
Thanks to my younger brother's tardiness in getting home last evening, I got to bed early ─ I was in bed by 10:10 p.m. and he was still not home.
Neither was my working wife, who had worked the long day at her friend's Thai restaurant.
I slept fragmentally, but I was always comfortable enough. Nevertheless, I did not expect so much time to have passed when I checked and saw it to be around 1:30 a.m., for I was hoping enough time had passed that my brother would have gone to bed and I could rise and get to work on the day's content assignment for the post I have under production at one of my six hosted websites.
That opportunity had handily arrived!
My youngest stepson was still up, but he retired just before my wife arrived home to unlock the front door at 2:30 a.m.
She spoke to him briefly, and fixed herself a bedtime snack before eating and coming upstairs to go to bed.
"Still up?" she said of me as she passed by the doorway to the little room where I keep my computer. Our bedroom is immediately adjacent.
I think that she likely presumed that I had yet to go to bed, but that thought did not occur until after I had unnecessarily confirmed her comment with a "Yup!"
I was to be up until after daybreak, for it was approaching 5:00 a.m. before I made my return to bed.
Sleep continued to be broken, but I was still very comfortable. And it was around 8:30 a.m. at most when I checked the time and decided to get up from bed for the morning.
I should have tried for one further block of sleep, for after about an hour of being up, I was so overcome that I actually had to lie down here on the floor in front of my computer for awhile before going downstairs to join my brother who was watching T.V. ─ he had risen just after I had the hour before.
Look, I don't want to drag out an account of my boring day. Suffice to say that my wife rose to ready herself for her 11:00 a.m. start at the restaurant. To get there involves a fair drive, but evidently her youngest son wanted use of her car, so he rode with her in order to take over possession.
He will of course have to collect her this evening when she is finished work...which will mean that she will be coming home much earlier than she did last night.
My brother headed off for the afternoon around 2:00 p.m., by which time I had undergone some exercising out in the backyard toolshed.
I was somewhat displeased with myself before going out there due to how much I weighed beforehand while dressed in runners, cutoffs, and a tank top: 191 pounds.
I have been feeling overworked or overtrained lately, even though I don't perceive myself to be exercising all that much. My body doesn't seem able to recover from the challenge of one day before I impose another day's challenge upon myself.
Of course, I am 69 years old, so I don't think too many guys my age are still doing pull-ups or trying to exercise with a 43½-pound dumbbell.
Incidentally, while I was working on that website post in the early a.m., I took a break and performed a three-minute and 40-second plank. I suppose something like that would also have a somewhat lasting strain upon an ageing physique.
I had to seek a needed nap after my toolshed exercising and the meal that followed it. And then because the afternoon had become quite sunny, I went out into the backyard and ─ beginning at 4:01 p.m. ─ spent just over 40 minutes slouched low into a deckchair or lawn-chair while I faced into the Sun, all the while wearing naught but a pair of cutoffs.
Concerning the sunshine, I am never able to understand how there can be such pervasive ignorance in the world concerning sunscreens, and the need to hide from exposure to the Sun.
There is no excuse for anyone with access to the Internet to be unaware of how toxic so many sunscreen products are, but people just cannot be bothered to ferret out this sort of information.
The ignorance appalls me.
The research keeps coming out, nevertheless ─ here are two articles referring to recent investigation:
JacksDailyDose.com
DrMicozzi.com
I was also going to include a more 'mainstream' article, but I'm not going to bother. The authours of mainstream articles ─ despite correctly reporting the study results ─ still tend to be too cowardly to actually come out and take a stand against sunscreens.
I am going to being today's post to a close here ─ it is already approaching 7:00 p.m.
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