I was to bed last evening at 9:01 p.m., and I am fairly certain that I heard my younger brother arriving home at 9:18 p.m. from wherever he had been drinking.
Although I was comfortable in bed, I certainly slept brokenly enough. In fact, at one point I was set to rise to put work into the post I am involved in constructing at one of my six hosted websites, for I figured that it was probably into the early a.m. by that time.
It was only around 10:30 p.m. Already, I had experienced my first small block of sleep. And although I was reasonably able to get back into some further sleep, I was to check the time yet again barely into the midnight hour.
When I next awoke from some sleep and checked the time ahead of 2 a.m., I deemed it time for me to rise and get to work on that post.
My later morning plan was a hike to Whalley to do some grocery shopping at the Save-On-Foods outlet (Google map) that is probably at least 1¼ miles from here. Along the way, I had my brother's monthly expenses reconciliation cheque that I wanted to deposit at an outdoor ATM at the Coast Capital Savings Federal Credit Union over by the King George SkyTrain Station.
The cheque was just under $300, but I had been in possession of it since probably the 1st.
The store opens at 7 a.m., so I wanted to try and arrive there soon thereafter, and estimated that I needed to leave here around 6:30 a.m. (I do not drive.)
I managed to complete the day's targetted quota of content for the website post by around 5 a.m., so I felt in need of a little bed rest. Then I figured to have myself a quick cup of hot, black instant coffee.
And so I settled back into bed, but fully clothed. The cup of coffee would come after I had risen.
Imagine my bit of shock to later check the time and discover that it was at least 6:43 a.m. (it may even have been 6:48 a.m. ─ I am now unsure). The store was going to be open before I had even begun my journey.
There was no skipping the cup of black coffee, for as yet I had not had any since first rising before 2 a.m., and I sorely required it to dispel the daze from my nap.
By the time I was finally on my way, it was 7:09 a.m. ─ the store was indeed already open.
I was to accomplish my two errands, however. And it helped that the sky was overcast ─ no brilliant, blinding early sunshine to make me even more aware that the morning was wearing on and the world hereabouts becoming busier.
During my outing, it occurred to me that I rather missed having the much farther walk to the Real Canadian Superstore. Just to get to that store more than doubles the full round trip that I face in shopping at Save-On-Foods.
However, even though I save a considerable amount of money when I shop at the Real Canadian Superstore, last weekend they began mandating that their customers had to wear face masks.
I will not frequent any business that imposes such a restriction upon me. Not even if it hurts me financially (I only have my monthly pension as income).
So until such a time as Save-On-Foods also seeks to dictate mandatory face masks for its customers, I will exclusively shop there ─ or, of course, until the Real Canadian Superstore notices that it seems to be losing some of its former business and chooses to suspend its ridiculous face mask decision.
Now, there are a few other markets besides Save-On-Foods where I could shop for groceries without needing to wear a face mask, but none of them open any earlier than 8 a.m. That is too late in the morning for me ─ I do not at all enjoy being out in the public.
Anyway, as is almost always the case, I quickly declined upon getting back home, and I was soon back to bed for a proper nap. My younger brother had risen for the morning by then.
I rose later in the morning; and then my brother soon enough sought some bed rest of his own in preparation of leaving for the afternoon to ultimately end up drinking somewhere.
While he was in his bedroom resting, I changed into a pair of cutoffs and went out into the backyard to try and benefit from some sunning.
I slouched low into a lawn- or deckchair after estimating where the Sun was located (it was overcast) so that I could face directly in that direction. But although I spent over 40 minutes out there within the hour spanning 1 - 2 p.m., not once did the Sun break through the clouds.
So did I manage to generate any vitamin D in all of that time? I suppose that I may have. And on that possibility, I will only take 5,000 I.U.s of vitamin D3 supplements today (for on those days in which I do not sun, I try to take 10,000 I.Us, as I must throughout the Fall and Winter).
The afternoon later became brilliantly sunny, but it did so too late for my benefit. After I had spent my time under the cloud cover, I came into the house and finally had my first meal of the day. That of course incapacitated me, and I needed to seek another short nap to allow matters to settle.
My very poor eyes also needed resting, or I would never have been able to continue blogging later on.
My brother was gone when I came back into the house to have that meal, by the way. However, both of my stepsons were still home.
My evening is now upon me, and I still have to tackle the day's scheduled exercising ─ this was another reason that I needed that afternoon nap. I am only a little more than a month from having my 71st birthday, so I no longer have the vitality I may once have had where relatively challenging exercise is concerned.
The session ahead of me involves a series of one-arm movements involving a 43½ dumbbell, so it does require considerable effort.
Incidentally, for about two weeks now since seeking to maintain a daily intermittent fasting routine of at least 16 hours at a stretch without any calories, I have been hovering around the 180-pound range at a height of just under five feet and 11 inches.
To quote from that Wikipedia article on intermittent fasting, the version I seek to follow is this:
Time-restricted feeding involves eating only during a certain number of hours each day. Skipping a meal and the 16:8 diet (16 fasting hours cycled by 8 non-fasting hours) are examples. This schedule is thought to leverage the circadian rhythm.I am actually trying to extend my fasting period to 17 hours or even a little better, but this can prove difficult because I do not live alone.
This was why I only had black instant coffee early this morning, and why I never ate anything at all today until after I had come in from my cloudy sunning session.
Had I not been on such a regimen, I would have had my delicious hot caffeinated beverage late this morning and then tackled half of the exercising that is still ahead of me. However, I now find that I am almost always too weak to be able to endure the intensely sustained effort that is required of me.
But once I eat, I cannot exercise ─ I am overburdened even from a small meal. I seem to have a small stomach; and strenuous exercise actually puts me in jeopardy of an abdominal wall rupture.
Consequently, I dare not attempt exercise if I feel overburdened or full from a recent meal ─ even a light one.
Lord, it is nearing 7 p.m. ─ I not only want to exercise, but I also am soon due my day's second small meal. I can delay the workout no longer.
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