20191123 SAVERS for SATURDAY

SILENCE

Tried to silence my brain for 60 seconds.

AFFIRMATIONS

1. I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.
2. I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.
3. I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.
4. I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.
5. I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.
6. I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.
7. I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.
8. I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.
9. I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.

Also said aloud for 60 seconds.

VISUALIZATION

175 by 1/31/20


Today, I weighed 188.4.  13 pounds to go!

EXERCISE

I did my full 1+ routine for Saturday, 11/23/2019:\

1. ankle/wrist circles 70
2. toe/finger stretches 70
3. bicycle crunches 70
4. shoulder rolls 70
5. inversion table 3 1-min sets
6. squats 70

READING, WRITING

Read for 60 seconds in SAPIENS by Yuval Noah Harari.  He says the very first (known, at least) indications of writing were by Sumerians, who used (apparently) a combination of "Base-6" and "Base-10" systems.  They are likely responsible for our current tradition of dividing the day into 24 equal hours, hours into 60 minutes, minutes into 60 seconds.  And also, we divide circles into 360 degrees because of their use of "Base-6."

I'm remembering some math teacher (was it Archibald Love in Vienna?) trying to get across Base-10, Base-7, and Base-12.  These concepts are necessarily expressed (by me & everyone) in Base-10 nomenclature.  For Base-12, we used 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,T,E,10,11, etc.  I remember I got the concept, but I never got used to it, to the point of doing math in Base-12.

So, the Sumerians, who lived in Sumeria (present day Southern Iraq), were the first (known) people to be "civilized" - to have a "civilization."  They used a combination of numbers and symbols to record things such as quantities of grains, and numbers of months, and names.

NOTE:  Sumer, site of the earliest known civilization, located in the southernmost part of Mesopotamia, between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in the area that later became Babylonia and is now southern Iraq, from around Baghdad to the Persian Gulf.

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Well, today is the day I install my new mattress, which came in a box.  It's all compressed into a roll.  I will immediately encase it in a bedbug proof mattress cover, and put it on my boxspring, but I'll be keeping it about 6" away from the bedboard, so that any residual bedbugs will not be able to "enter my sleeping territory."

I'm counting on the heat treatment + my continuous precautions (washing clothes daily, showering twice a day, frequent and regular inspections) to end the bedbug infestation nightmare that has plagued me since August of this year.

Sunday 11/10:  I saw a lone (was it lone?) bedbug on my green duvet cover.  I tried to capture it in a plastic bag, but as I tried to coax it in, it flipped up and landed somewhere I could not see.  I was SOOOOO angry that it was there, and that I had lost it.

As a result of this upsetting event, I began to consider what to do about my bed needs; I researched beds, visited Sit-n-sleep, and decided on Mayfair's Karina hybrid mattresses (combo of inner springs and foam).  It is shipped in a box.

I also researched bedbug proof mattress covers, and ordered 2 twins & 1 queen (for the box springs), and I went to Target and picked them up; I brought them home.

Saturday 11/16:  Had carpets cleaned.  Left the room airing out and drying while I went to Lisa's to celebrate her birthday (on Sunday evening).

Monday 11/18:  Drove home to Winnetka, brought the queen box springs back into the bedroom, thoroughly inspected and vacuumed  the 2 twin mattresses and my queen box spring, and encased them in the mattress covers which are zippered & supposedly bedbug proof.

Wednesday 11/20:  I saw another bedbug crawling on the comforter (white).  I was mortified!!!!  I captured the bedbug and it's still in a plastic bag along with what appears to be a 2nd one that did not move.

I immediately inspected all bedding (did not find any more), and washed clothes and bedding.  I left the clothes & bedding in the dryer for 2 heating cycles for each load.

Thursday 11/21 & Friday 11/22:  spent the days with Lisa's family while she was in Utah.  At the local San Clemente Target, I bought a 2nd queen size bedbug mattress cover.

Friday 11/22:  Drove back home late Friday night; the new mattress had been delivered.

Today I'm re-washing all bedding, and I'm setting up the new mattress - I'll place it 6" away from the bedboard, just in case there are residual bedbugs in the bedboard, or in the walls (plugs).  I'll sleep 6" away from the bedboard for now.

Whew!  I found it tedious and aggravating to try to reconstruct these events.  But with the help of these posts, I was able to do it.  My memory is not what it should be.  It's never been good; but I should be able to make statements about what happened when, especially these NIGHTMARE events, without having to go through the above.  But I do.  Oh well.

*sigh*