Although my younger brother arrived home around 8:20 p.m. last evening while I was still watching T.V. and having some supper, he was quite drunk. However, he was to retain consciousness all evening despite growing progressively drunker, so I had to sit up into the midnight hour operating our T9 Android 8.1 TV Box to acquire episodes of three of the T.V. series we follow.
I had hoped to have been able to get to bed around three hours earlier than I was finally able to.
I don't understand how his health is able to hold up when he drinks daily like this ─ he's 67 years old, after all.
Despite my late bedtime, I had a wakeful period overnight and thus decided to rise well before dawn. Unfortunately, I now don't recall if the time was actually something ahead of 5:00 a.m., or if it was an hour earlier than that.
Of course I rose in order to put more work into the post I am developing at one of my six hosted websites. And as a result, it was probably perhaps 8:30 a.m. before I made my return to bed.
Yet two hours later, I was awake and up once more. My brother as yet had not emerged from his bedroom, but he was apparently just about to shower in his en-suite facilities.
I occupied myself with the creation of a post in my private blog before eventually having my day's first meal in the noon hour. Then fairly early in the afternoon I returned to bed for a nap.
The day was to prove quite sunny, but I never set foot into the daylight. My environment and my lifelong disinclination to be in the public kept me a prisoner here under veritable house arrest.
No such concerns stay my brother ─ he headed away while I was abed in the afternoon, and he will be resuming his daily drinking at some bar. His daily need to socialize with other drinkers he knows is most bewildering to me.
But I want to talk about a couple of other topics.
Yesterday, after using Apache OpenOffice for perhaps 15 or so years, I finally got rid of it and downloaded LibreOffice. The final straw that brought this on was the endless failure early this a.m. for my Apache OpenOffice document to load without constant crashing.
This is a perennial issue for me, and numerous times over the years I have had to uninstall the software after the dual steps of first ensuring that all Apache OpenOffice applications were closed or shut down; and then renaming my user profile from a pathway ending in /user to one that was usually changed to /user.old.
After doing that and then reinstalling Apache OpenOffice, it would function properly for awhile.
However, I had only done this change a couple of days ago, and now once more I was unable to open the document I needed in order to work on my website post.
Actually, I use four different documents for these website posts. Before I ever begin a post, I first take the post's topic or title, and then scour the Web at four different sources for material that I will be adding into the post. Only after I have many pages of four such illustration-rich documents do I then begin constructing the new post.
Thus, these documents are absolutely essential.
So this morning, I finally had enough of this problem that has existed over the years whether I have used a computer with operating systems of Windows 95, Windows 7, or now Windows 10. Clearly, the people behind the product do not have the expertise to correct the flaw once and for bloody all.
So now we will see how LibreOffice fares. I have never before tried it, but I have wondered about it for a year or more.
I mostly use the Writer (document) feature ─ I have no understanding of working with the various other features like Calc and so forth. The only time they might ever come into play is when I have to open a file that requires one of those applications.
The second topic I want to speak of concerns my affiliate status with Target.
Yesterday I received an E-mail from them as follows:
Contract with Target is Expiring
Hi G*****,
Your contract with Target for the Target program is expiring on Mar 14, 2020.
When I click that link to supposedly view the contract, there is no trace of it. All I find is my Target account, although there is a notification that can be accessed that indicates that my contract has expired:
Your Contract with Target has been set to expire. The exact expiration date is 12:00 AM Pacific Time on 3/14/20.
If my contract has then expired last night at midnight, why am I still able to access my Target affiliate account?
I just don't understand this. Granted, I have never made a sale through my affiliate account, but have I really only been a Target affiliate for a year? It seems longer than that.
I also do not remember ever seeing anything that said my affiliate status would end after a year if I failed to have any sales.
I sent an enquiry by responding to that E-mail, but I have not had a reply.
If I have been dropped as an affiliate, obviously I am not losing out on any kind of affiliate balance (since I've never had a sale); but I do have lots of Target ads spread through posts in my six hosted websites that might one day result in such a sale for which I will now never receive credit.
Oh, well ─ good for them, I guess. I am not going to spend hours trying to find all of those ads just to disable them. If that's something they want me to do, then they can bloody well pay me to do it! I'm not going to be doing it for free ─ I have other purposes for my time.
Sue me.
I hope to try and get out this evening after dark to do some local grocery shopping, although I just might not bother ─ we shall see.
I'm also hoping that my brother spends tonight at the home of his girlfriend Bev like he did after spending last Saturday evening with her.
Before I close, I want to mention a discovery I made yesterday afternoon after hearing a song on the radio that I've always liked. I could remember that the female singer's last name might have been Larson, but I couldn't remember aught else.
So I found the song on YouTube ─ I had never before seen Nicolette Larson perform it or any other song. This link ─ for however long the video remains uploaded at YouTube ─ should bring up one of her performances of that 1978 hit that I was referring to: NICOLETTE LARSON - Lotta Love (1978) (HD).
As well, Dick Clark gave a short interview of her with her band in 1979: American Bandstand 1979- Interview Nicolette Larson. She's got a bit of a Montana accent, doesn't she?
And she's quite wholesomely cute ─ no question of that, nor the strength and quality of her voice.
So how come she's not still performing anything?
Well, if you referred to the Wikipedia article on her that I linked to, it says that "she died in 1997 of cerebral edema and liver failure" at the age of 45.
She was reportedly "showing symptoms of depression", but it was suspected that her liver failure was brought on by her regular use of Valium and Tylenol PM.
No one with any kind of liver problem should ever take Valium.
And despite most people not realizing it, Tylenol PM's acetaminophen is possibly the most common cause of liver failure. The stuff is in hundreds of over-the-counter medications, including products like combination cold and cough medicines, and nighttime products such as NyQuil and Sinutab.
So even though someone might just take a very mild dose of Tylenol for whatever relief he or she might feel he or she needs, the same drug could be hidden in one or even several other products that are also being taken.
The result could be immediate liver failure. But it could happen right out of the blue even if no other medications were being taken ─ even if the user had previously taken Tylenol PM untold times before over the years without any problems.
Okay ─ that's all I wanted to say.
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