Dissolute debauchery.
With yesterday evening apparently to myself, I watched a little T.V.; and then instead of hieing directly to bed, I willfully surrendered to pernicious occupation.
And no sooner was I surfeitted with mine iniquity and had then set to begin readying to retire, I heard my younger brother coming into the house at not yet 10:15 p.m.
Wanting nothing to do with him or any further T.V., I made short work of getting to my bed behind the security of my quickly closed bedroom door.
When sleep arrived, it was fleeting, and the typical fractured pattern ensued. I think that it was around 2:00 a.m. when I decided to rise to put in some work on the post I am constructing at one of my six hosted websites.
The hope was there that I would be able to eventually set off to try and visit Walmart at Surrey Place (Central City) for some grocery shopping as soon after its 7:00 a.m. opening as possible ─ the store is a mile hence. This would be my first walk in a full week.
By about 5:00 a.m., I decided to wetten and set my beard in preparation for the outing, and I lay in my bed thereafter to await my beard's drying.
After abut a half hour, I assayed the state of my beard, but adjudged that it could use further work; and so I wetted it again, this time lathering it with soap, and then resorted again to my bed for about a half hour.
Then I spent a little time here at my computer, and finally began dressing for the venture. Unfortunately, it was at least 6:40 a.m. before I got upon my way. The night sky was fairly clear, and already in the east I could see the lightening of the coming dawn.
It was quite chilly, and there was some frost.
I had planned on stopping at the elementary school that is nearly halfway to Surrey Place, for I had in mind to perform four sets of pull-ups on the gymnastics-style rings in the school's playground. However, when I arrived there, I found that delinquent brats had wrapped the chains of all five (or however many) of the rings around the horizontal bar from which they ought to have been suspended from high overhead.
It would not be an easy task to remedy the condition of any two adjoining rings so that I could use them; and when I checked the time and saw that it was already a minute after 7:00 a.m., the urgency of my hike superseded the exercise ─ I hate being caught out in the daylight and the busy start to a day. Even a Sunday.
So I abandoned the planned exercise, and continued on my way.
I had to scan my own purchases, a process I would prefer not to have to involve myself with. And in concern that this would be my lot, I refrained from buying any produce ─ anything without a barcode is far too troublesome to deal with.
I managed to forget one item that I had planned to buy; but even so, I was almost shocked to discover that my tab came to $109.21. My monthly pension only arrived into my chequing account around this past Thursday ─ expenditures like this will have me quickly unable to do any further shopping until my next pension payment.
My wife has me so deep into debt that there is no escape ─ but for some financial miracle from God that He has thus far shown no sign of ever bestowing.
No one was yet up when I arrived home. I now cannot recall just when it was that I returned to bed, but it had to have been at least 9:00 a.m.
Even my naps are of a fractured variety. It was after 10:30 a.m. when next I rose, fully expecting to find my younger brother downstairs by this time. But no ─ he was still shut up in his bedroom. My eldest stepson was up, however.
I do not believe that my brother finally emerged from his room until shortly after 11:00 a.m., by which time I was using the toilet. We actually never exchanged a word to one another, for he eventually returned to his bedroom to rest up in preparation for his afternoon away to whatever bar he was going to be drinking at; and I sought yet another nap myself before he had achieved that restorative bed rest. He was gone by the time I had my poor nap.
I wonder if my eldest stepson drove him anywhere, or if my brother instead took a bus or maybe even walked? Admittedly, that latter option is not too likely.
My brother must still have about a month remaining in his three-month driving suspension.
By the way, despite the brilliance of the early morning, there was actually a bout of rain at some point during my nap following my morning outing. Everything outside was drenched. Yet the sky looked to be the same blend of broken cloud that it had been earlier.
Yesterday I received an unwanted E-mail invitation to join three former co-workers for lunch next Thursday at a pub. The gal issuing the invitation said that she would pick me up nearby my home, for the pub is at least five miles from here and I do not drive.
I cannot afford to be lunching out, along with having a couple of beers, and then tipping for it all. I am in serious bad shape financially.
The three of us were last together fairly early in December, so this feels far too soon. I do not want this to become some sort of regular tryst. I bloody cannot afford it.
On another matter, I want to mention something interesting that I gleaned concerning one possibility that I sleep so poorly ─ the possibility was mentioned in an article at Mercola.com that I read early this morning and which was published just today: The Importance of Vitamin D and B5 for Optimal Sleep.
It was argued that vitamin D is not adequate on its own to encourage our bodies to sleep well, and that we need to establish a healthy gut population of four types of bacteria that are able entirely of themselves to manufacture all of the eight B vitamins that we require.
Vitamin D can help those bacteria to become established, but we also need to take other measures if the balance is not there.
And until that balance is achieved, taking high levels of supplemental B vitamins is recommended ─ viz., a compound such as B50 or B100. But only for about three months, until the measure to establish proper populations of those four types of bacteria have been effected.
As it happens, I have been taking a vitamin B100 tablet on a daily basis, and it's quite possible that I had another bottle of vitamin B100 before this one. And before that? Maybe even another high-dose vitamin B compound.
Maybe I've been taking high vitamin B doses for years.
What's the problem with that?
Well, if one has the proper balance of those four crucial bacterial strains that are able to generate all of the necessary eight B vitamins, taking high doses of B vitamins for longer than three months...well, read for yourself this paragraph I am about to quote:
...Keep in mind that once your gut microbiome has been restored, taking high doses of B vitamins can backfire and trigger insomnia, as your body is now making the appropriate amount by itself. At that point, the excess ends up having an amphetamine-like effect that keeps you awake.
The featured specialist in the article is a neurologist ─ Dr. Stasha Gominak. She has made sleep and the involved vitamins and bacteria her specialty. This quote is of her:
“I personally think that getting the microbiome back in most people who are pretty sick is [step] one. And then they need to have some supplementation, not huge doses, but some supplementation for a year or two after that. And then keep an open mind about the fact that eventually, you’ll get to a place where you don’t need to supplement most things, unless you have a particular genetic weakness.”
Could it be that I am basically in harmful overdrive due to an over-supplementation of B vitamins that has gone on for years, and that's why I sleep so dismally?
Maybe my gut microbiome is perfectly balanced with the essential four types of bacteria, and I don't even need to supplement with B vitamins?
I cannot afford to have the various tests performed to determine what my vitamins D and B12 blood levels are ─ I would just have to gauge matters for myself with self-experimentation.
I've definitely been taking sufficient vitamin D3. In the months when I am unable to sit out in the sunshine, I try to take 10,000 I.U.s daily ─ so I'm not at all concerned that I have a low blood level of vitamin D.
Beginning today, I am not going to take a daily vitamin B supplement. Nevertheless, since I do have a fair supply of vitamin B100, I will take a tablet every two weeks ─ each Friday, and perhaps with my day's first meal rather than with my day's final meal.
It ought to be interesting assessing if this is actually going to manifest in a positive change in my ability to sleep.
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