I heard where MLB pitcher Justin Verlander tries to get 10 hours of sleep daily.
That’s a lot of sleep compared to what I’m currently averaging.
It’s more like six to eight hours for me depending on any given day’s activities and eventual sleep time.
Is extra sleep the key to improving athletic performance?
I’m not sure as when I sleep more than eight hours, usually it’s because I’m feeling tired or unwell.
And, when I wake up after ten hours or so, I’m typically feeling better albeit somewhat groggy.
Grogginess is the thing I can’t seem to easily shake after sleeping more than eight hours.
While my body and mind eventually feel better and more alert after ten hours of sleep, it’s not exactly instantaneous.
For me, I need the nudge that is caffeine that comes in the form of coffee.
A few cups is my daily quota. Sometimes I can get by on one or two, but at this stage of the game more than anything I enjoy the taste first and whatever boost benefits it provides, second.
For young seniors like myself, what I find most integral to my pursuit of raging against aging is maintaining adequate protein intake, regular exercise–cardio and strength training, and restful sleep.
Those are my three. What are yours?
Take a chance and leave a comment. Who knows, I’m pretty sure I will respond and it will be good to collaborate and corroborate with you.
Time to revisit spam
I’m trying out a new anti-spam plugin.
Spam is always an on again, off again problem.
There is a high and quality volume of content here at the blog.
I’ve covered a lot of topics over the years and enjoyed hearing from our many readers.
Having comments on and also having a Feedback area where people can contact us, does leave the door open to notorious spammers (a potentially good band name by the way).
The spammers may not always be nefarious but they are surely annoying.
We’ll see if the new anti-spam plugin helps. I’m sure it will, but don’t want to take anything for granted since it’s always a problem for bloggers to one degree or another.
Sheet detergent
We’ve been using laundry sheets instead of high yield liquid or whatever they call traditional laundry detergent.
The sheets have proven to be economical and still do a great job.
The size of the sheet you use corresponds to the size of your load.
Washers can vary in size and so like microwave times, you’ll have to adjust your laundry sheet as needed depending on how much you have in the machine.
One time I did notice that a washer sheet got stuck up against the side of the washer churn drum or cylinder or whatever you call it.
This made me wonder if the detergent actually made its way to the soiled items.
I just like to type soiled items every once in a while to maintain its relevance in the dictionary. You never know when an article of clothing may be soiled so please be respectful and try to give the soiled loads (again, potential good band name), every benefit of the doubt with respect to the size of the sheet you’ll need to clean them.
Remember, too, that you don’t need too many sheets as far as having this product last a good long while.
The caveat in all of this, however, is to also remember that if you end up with too many sheets because you bought a bigger package of laundry sheets than required, you could very well end up being full of sheet in the long run.