Following many weeks of absolutely nothing accruing in my Google AdSense account ─ not even 1¢ ─ I discovered today that I was credited with 17¢ yesterday through one of my remaining two hosted websites (I used to have six such websites).
That figure has yet to be actually added to my AdSense balance, which presently stands at $54.20. Payouts are not made until the balance hits or exceeds $100. The last time I received a payout was on October 21, 2016 ─ it was for $101.23 (these are all likely Canadian dollars). That was four years and over three months ago.
So from October 21, 2016 until today, I have only managed to build up a little more than half of the figure I'll need for any next payout. As I pointed out when I last wrote about this, I am presently 71 years old, so in four years' time I will be 75 if I am still living.
I'm hardly making a killing as an affiliate marketer, am I? I've never managed to receive a payment from Amazon nor AliExpress.com, so those two accounts are still virtually fledgling where any balances are concerned. Yet I've been with Amazon for possibly better than a dozen years. AliExpress is quite new for me ─ maybe only a year.
But on to other topics.
As I wrote in yesterday's post, we finally got a couple inches of snow. It has been snowing through the morning and early afternoon today, but the flakes are tiny, and nothing is accumulating on the wet street. As well, the temperature out there is supposedly 1º C (33.8º F) as I type these words at 1:35 p.m.
We're actually predicted to have rain today, and a high of 2ºC (35.6º F), so the snow ─ possibly three inches ─ is not likely to be with us for too many days at all. The low tonight is estimated to be 0ºC (32º F), while tomorrow's high is expected to reach 3º C (37.4º F), with both rain and snow.
However, by Tuesday a high of 6º C (42.8º F) is said to be on the way, and we may even reach 8º C (46.4º F) come next Sunday. There will be also be a few days of rain by then, too.
So the snow is going to be briefly with us. And it was our heaviest accumulation all this season. Truly, an unusually mild Fall / Winter.
I went to bed for my latter evening nap yesterday a little later than I usually do ─ maybe as late as 10 p.m. As a result, when I did nap and later roused and checked the time, it was something like 12:38 a.m. My younger brother had already retired for the night. I rose and came here to my computer to get some work done for a few hours.
I had some morning shopping plans at the nearby Shoppers Drug Mart that is maybe four blocks from here, so I did wish to return to bed for some further sleep. The pharmacy opens at 8 a.m., and I like to do my shopping early.
Possibly it was 4 a.m. when I returned to bed ─ certainly it was before 5 a.m. Initially I considered setting my cellphone alarm for 7 a.m., but I decided not to bother.
When I later roused from some sleep and realized that it was daytime, I checked the time and found that it was 7:07 a.m. I rose and dressed, and then went downstairs to boil water for a black unsweetened instant coffee.
I didn't actually get away on my reasonably short walk until almost 8 a.m., but I met no one else on the walk. My primary purpose was to restock my nutritional supplements, but I was unable to find everything I was seeking ─ they should have had potassium, for one. The other supplement that I saw no trace of is one I have never before bought: quercetin.
I have been reading that quercetin is an ionophore, much as is hydroxychloroquine (HCQ). You may be aware of the latter drug as a highly touted preventive and even treatment for COVID-19.
What these two substances are able to do as ionophores is enhance the delivery of zinc into our bodies' cells when otherwise very little zinc supplementation would manage to enter the cells ─ both natural quercetin and the drug hydroxychloroquine actually transport zinc into the cells where it can then block SARS-CoV-2 (or any other coronaviruses) from replicating themselves.
When the virus cannot replicate within a cell, it cannot long continue to be infective.
Not many of us can acquire hydroxychloroquine, but we likely can get hold of quercetin.
I now see that it is a wee bit on the expensive side. However, it is not my intention to be taking zinc and quercetin on a daily basis. Rather, the point is to take the combination as soon as a person realizes he or she is coming down with a cold or flu. In the case of COVID-19, most infections can be overcome as long as the quercetin (or hydroxychloroquine) treatment is begun within the first five days of infection.
Knowing this, I would simply want to have both products on hand to take anytime I realized that I was falling victim to a cold or flu virus. I would try and offer similar treatment for my brother and my wife. My two stepsons ─ both in their 20s ─ are unlikely to 'catch' a life-threatening case of COVID-19, so I am not as concerned for them.
I just don't know how much quercetin would be best required under those conditions. Likely the product directions would be sufficient ─ a 500-mg or 1,000-mg tablet or capsule daily.
As for the zinc, I've read that even zinc lozenges are effective when taken with a daily ionophore ─ five or so lozenges a day.
I have 50-mg zinc citrate tablets though. If I was becoming ill with a suspected virus, I might split up the tablet and take the pieces throughout the day in lieu of lozenges.
The regimen should be short-term ─ no more than a week if begun at the first onset of an infection.
But that's just what I am considering. I haven't read this laid out in such clear terms, so I would be simply experimenting on myself.
Incidentally, I performed a search for quercetin at Amazon.com that you can see at the top of
this post. Since I live in Canada, I would have to order mine from
Amazon.ca to avoid shipping costs and extra delays, but I may just
bite the bullet and see if I can locate any locally despite the hike in
cost this would result in.
However, I wish to move on from the subject.
I arrived home from the relatively innocuous outing to find my brother was up and already drinking coffee and reading the Sunday morning edition of The Province that I subscribe to.
I came directly upstairs, and soon enough began to feel in need of further sleep. Nevertheless, I resisted the urge to return to bed and decided to bide time until 10 a.m. and then go downstairs to present myself as being available to put our Android TV Box into action.
Well, that plan got foiled because I became involved in the composition of an E-mail that required a fair amount of research ─ this took me well beyond 10 a.m., and by then my brother had already turned on the T.V. and was watching an episode of The Nature of Things.
By the time I came downstairs, it was approximately half over, but I sat with my brother anyway, thinking that at the programme's conclusion he would then offer that we should watch something via the Android TV Box.
Alas, at 11 a.m. he switched channels and tuned in an episode of Nova ─ and that was it for me. I had wasted enough time. I left him to the show, came upstairs, and was soon finally back in bed.
I did gain some sleep; and when I slowly came out of it, I then checked the time and found that it was something like 12:38 p.m. At last I could take in some calories! I had eaten but one meal yesterday in the mid-afternoon.
My brother was at this time shut up into his own bedroom. I didn't pay much notice of when he emerged, but he then soon enough left for the afternoon to end up drinking somewhere.
I decided to take a few further photos of the weather (I took some yesterday). The first one was taken at 3:15 p.m. while I was standing at the entrance of our open carport and facing down the driveway to the cul-de-sac we live in here in Surrey:
Then two minutes later, I was standing in the doorway of our backyard's small toolshed and facing toward the back of our home:
While I was having my day's first meal, I got curious as to why my eldest stepson (26 years old) seemed to be going out and back into the house so many times ─ could he be getting set to shovel snow?
Well, he was not, but I was to see both of the brothers out there ─ the younger lad is 23, and owns a rather fancy camera. For some reason, he was photographing his brother's Harley-Davidson XL1200 (that's all I know of the bike's specifics).
Using my iPhone 5 once again, I took a shot of them at 4:09 p.m. and then a quick one with some zoom:
I zoomed in even further for the next two shots, but I was rushed because of concern that the lads would notice my movement in the living room window ─ both of these were taken at 4:10 p.m.:
And with that, I decided not to push my luck any further.
The mid-afternoon snowflakes were quite large, but into the latter afternoon they reduced again and began to show signs of being intermixed with rain.
At the present it is 5:15 p.m., and I feel in need of a little further time abed to facilitate the assimilation of that meal. I honestly doubt that I am going to have anything else to report today that cannot await the morrow, so I will bow out right here.
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