I have not remember how I heard about Taurine vitamin but it seemed to have some attributes that I wanted to try out.
Taurine has a long list of beneficial aspects for the humane body; way more than listed here. My personal experience was that the listed body changes found in the Internet websites were mostly unnoticeable to me except one – my dreams during night sleep were off the charts! I have participated in my dreams of major movie like experiences! Not all my past dreams were good, just most. Taking Taurine now, for me, is to enjoy some exciting dreams while sleeping at night! A friend of mine told me that Melatonin is reported to possibly provide vivid dreams. I had been taking Melatonin for years with no such episodes of vivid dreams until I started taking Taurine. It just might be the case that taking both Melatonin and Taurine together really makes a change in some people for providing exiting dreams.
NOTE: This dream enhancement of Taurine is not supported in any other web site that I can find!
Taurine might lower blood pressure but be careful and monitor your pressure!
Taking taurine by mouth seems to improve heart function.
Helps with sleep. I did not find this helped me.
MOST SURPRISING AND NOT ADVERTISED: The most shocking result for me taking Taurine is that I have vivid and some times epic and near fantastic dreams.
The list of Taurine benefits is way longer than I can list here! Do be careful that taking it does not diminish our current level of health.
SOME CAUTIONS:
If you’re pregnant or breastfeeding, you should avoid taurine supplements.
Taurine interacts with some medications, such as antidepressants, anti-seizure drugs, statins, and blood thinners.
June 1, 2024, I stopped taking Taurine. I just might look to buy and use a lower dose. The reason was that I had noticed a slight problem that I was feeling slightly emotion after taking this product. My emotions would change for no reason. It took me months taking this product that I decided that something was causing these strange feelings and I needed to find out the cause. It ocured to me to check the Internet for Taurine being the cause.“Taurine increases your body’s production of glycine and GABA, both of which help calm your brain and reduce anxiety.”
It all started when I realized that I could not confirm that a Christmas gift was delivered to my home December 7, 2022. I decided to look at my Ring cameras which I have 3 that cover the front of my home. The Ring web site stated that the history of my cameras should provide at least 30 days history. Our family had to delay celebrating Christmas because mom and dad came down with Covid on the 17th of December. We decided to not celebrate until January 1, 2023. I discovered that the cameras failed to go back from today’s date, December 30, 2022 to December 7, 2022. I tried everything but I just could not go back and view the cameras for December 7. I could only go back to December 12.
Ring showed that I had Protect Plus Plan paid active until January 9, 2023.
I then tried to use RING customer support but it appeared to me that the process was automated and I could NOT communicate with a live person. I kept getting incompetent answers to my question for how I could go back further to view my camera histories.
I then went into my account and found that my credit card information was not up to date. My prior credit card was hacked a few weeks ago and I tried to update all my accounts but failed to update RING. I then tried to update my credit card but every time I did, and went back in to confirm that the change was made, it failed to show the new credit card. The solution for me was to log out from the RING application and then log back in. Then my account did show the new credit card was active and the old card was removed.
I watched one of the world cup soccer matches using my HULU subscription that my daughter and I pay for on my large screen 27 inch Apple iMac .HULU is pretty darn good for providing very good, high quality, TV shows and other content at a much cheaper cost using WiFi instead of getting the programs from my cable provider.Our family quit live cable TV with our provider and only pay for Internet.A good reason for this is that my daughter lives in a different home and my son also lives in an apartment not shared with any family member. My daughter has a very close friend who lives somewhere in the United States and all 4 of these separate people can use HULU for a single subscription of $92 a month instead of being charged 4 huge cable charges of $59.99 x 4 = $239.96.
At my home, we have a family room with a well performing HULU TV system.In that room we use a Playstation to provide the HULU content.I have an office upstairs and decided that the large screen TV in that room needs the HULU system also.
My upstairs TV model number: VIZIO GV52; FJDTV10A
My TV Resolution: 1920 x 1080 pixels
Display/Signal Compatibility for my TV:1080P (Full HDTV) , 1080i (HDTV) , 720P (HDTV) , 480P (EDTV) 480i (SDTV)
NOTES:
Typical UHD 4K is 3840×2160 pixels.
Film industry refers to 4096x2160p as 4K
Note that my TV is not 4K.
My office has a Playstation 4 which was connected to the large screen TV but for some reason I can not get it connected to receive the World Cup Soccer match (2022). We have a PlayStation connected to our family room and it works perfectly for providing HULU. I decided to dash out and buy a ROKU device because it came up as the first choice when I performed an Internet search for devices that can provide HULU.
The ROKU device failed.Let me list the plus and minus points for that device:
PLUS POINTS:
This device is really cheap.I paid only $ 29.99 before tax.
My gosh this device is incredibly small.
I love the fact that it uses WiFi to get the Internet so I do not have to wire a Ethernet coax into it.
The menu system appears to be quite professional.
The image quality is very good for the setup and menus.
The power cable was a perfect length for me.
MINUS POINTS:
The HDMI cable is a bit short but I found a clever place to put the ROKU.I put it right under the TV set I had because that set had air space on the left and right side of it’s center swivel stud support.
ROKU asks for the user to input a full credit card payment input.You do not pay any fee to use the ROKU so why ask for my credit card?They want this information on record in case you want to add any new feature in the future.I find this despicable and should be a crime.I should ONLY provide my credit card information if and when I decide to add anything that will cost me more money.
I really wanted to watch the last World Cup Soccer match but the ROKU would only provide an error message. The ROKU showed perfectly good TV images until I asked it to provide the HULU programming. I was really pissed that I had spent so much time to enjoy watching HULU on my large screen office TV but ROKU failed saying that there was a video quality signal incompatibility.(Oddly the ROKU showed excellent quality menu and still images of examples of shows I could watch but failed to show actual programs.). So if ROKU can show wonderful menu and promotions why did it fail to show the World Cup Soccer game?
ROKU Application Error Message
I never was able to watch the 2022 World Cup Soccer match!
After having an outside back yard pool removed, and also an outdoor pavilion that offered shade along the side of the pool, it was a shock to see that a pavilion beam had been bolted to the back yard house wall. What was shocking was viewing the huge number of varying size holes left after the beam was removed from the wall. There were a LOT of holes! I counted 114 small holes and 19 large holes in the stucco wall. The stucco wall that held the wood beams was painted a dark color prior to the pavilion being installed and a light color after the beam was mounted to the wall. It was difficult to see what was dirt, where the beam was attached and what was paint as seen in the image below.
After experiencing a variety of outside vendors perform home improvements, I have come away with the belief that quite a few of these businesses can make significant mistakes. I would never allow any business to attach anything to a home that I have control over without approving the mounting method. The example shown here is simply dreadful and a mistake.
Back yard image of stucco damage. Note the dirty brown horizontal line across the wall.
Next image shows the problem of holes in the stucco, the wall being painted prior and dirt collected behind the prior wood beam. This article will try to solve these problems.
NOTE: The method and products shown here is only to offer you a singular view into a solution that might not be the best for you. I am sure that there are other solutions. This article reveals some products that were used for this project. Please do not accept our termite solution as it has not been tested for your health and safety.
I used the following wet solutions to clean the dirt on the stucco and applied the chemicals with a stiff plastic brush:
Bleach and warm water. (I was not impressed with this method.)
Simple Green. (This may have worked but not sure. I really was looking for a faster and clear winner method)
Tide, Heavy Duty. I had a Home Dept employee suggest this method. Not sure but I think this method may have been good enough.
I came to realize that the brush movement was very important. I used a soft upward and hard downward stroke.
After trying to clean the wall, which never seemed to be clean, I shot a termite killing foam into each hole. The reason for this is that plugging the holes with new stucco patch took some time before this project started. Termites could have entered those holes. The holes in the wall were under the second floor and above the first floor ceiling so the chemicals were confined and I assumed safe to apply. I did detect the second floor was creaking a bit more and think this was due to termites getting into the holes.
I next needed to find a solution for plugging the holes before I applied stucco patch. Some of the holes were so large that I was afraid that the stucco patch would not properly fill in the holes and collapse some time in the future. A Home Depot employee recommend a very good product. It is Loctite Tite Foam.
I had no idea of how to use this product but I soon devised my own method. I shot the foam into the larger holes. Immediately, I found out that the foam expands in all directions including coming back out the hole I shot the product into! Yikes! It was obvious that I had to cut the excess foam off the part that was in the wall. I decided to cut the foam bubble back just behind the normal stucco surface a little bit, maybe a quarter inch or more. You obviously do NOT want the foam to show but must be covered by a layer of stucco. I totally had to guess how much foam to push back from the opening. I did find out that I could push the foam back into the hole to any depth I wanted! I quickly came to love this product. I just had to figure out the needed simple solutions to small problems with using it.
Image above shows how the foam expands back out the hole it was shot into. Note also that the wall was painted a brown color where the wood beam was bolted but the rest of the wall was painted a much brighter color.
When I first shot this product into my first stucco hole I was a bit shocked to see this expand right out the hole that I shot this stuff into. It was obvious that I had to cut this foam bubble away. There is NO hurry for you to rush to cut this foam excess. I personally, like to wait for the foam to age a few minutes. Just make sure it stops expanding. The foam appears to not change consistency much as a few minutes pass so I reasoned that is is much better to wait for the foam to finish its expanding action. I think at least five minutes is enough time.
I found that a very sharp knife blade that is pushed into the bubble worked way better than trying to cut with a slicing sliding action around the large bubble. For some reason the knife had a problem slicing but worked perfectly pushing the blade into the bubble. Maybe it was because the knife was not that sharp.
I still used the knife to pick away at the remaining foam after the large bubble was removed. I think the whole task of making a proper foam cut out and scraping the excess foam away took no longer than two minutes for each hole.
I found that a paint can opener worked perfectly for pressing the foam back into the wall just enough so a new stucco patch could easily fit in and match the existing stucco wall. I used the paint can opener scraper side to remove any foam from either side of the hole. This tool was perfect for this.
Hole in stucco that has had Tile Foam applied and trimmed is now ready for stucco patch.
The image above shows the large hole is now ready for stucco patch to be applied. Note that the small holes, I reasoned, should not be a problem. I will apply stucco patch to large and small holes. I used a putty knife to apply the patch and used the putty knife to wipe any patch that was sticking beyond the surface. I then scratched the surface with a real stiff wire brush to add some roughness to the patch to possibly match the rest of the wall texture.
My sister passed away April 2020 and I soon discovered that not only did I have to prepare my family taxes but also my sister’s.My sister’s attorney’s recommended using a tax person who lived quite a distance away from where I live.I had the choice of putting all the tax documents together in a neat order and driving for hours to deliver the documents to the tax person or scan the documents and use an Internet drop box that the tax person offered.I chose to scan the documents.I looked around in my home and found that I had three devices that claim to scan documents.My dual purpose printer and document scanning machines produced pretty awful scanned images. I had a very old CanoScan 8400F which was first made in the middle of 2004.My unit was not that old but pretty close.When I connected that scanner up to my Macintosh computer, it would not function.I did an Internet search and tried out VueScan by visiting this web site:https://www.hamrick.com/
They allow you to try the VueScan software out before you pay them any money.My tests worked so well that I purchased the software.For me, the software is fantastic.It is so simple to scan any document.And, by the way, the CanoScan 8400F is a very impressive scanner.I have scanned well over one hundred documents using this setup and no problems.
Men’s jacket manufacturers seem to be making a mistake for me at my location for the following reasons.
I live in a rather temperate climate.
Average highs of 60°F (15.6°C) to 68°F (20°C)
Average lows of 45°F (7.2°C) to 55°F (12.8°C).
I have been looking for the proper jacket for my location but all the stores near me have been a disappointment:
Macy’s = Cincinnati, OH
Burlington Coat Factory = New Jersey
Target = Minneapolis, MN
JC Penney = Plano, Texas
Kohl’s. = Menomonee Falls, WI
Nordstrom. = Seattle, WA
32 Degrees = New York, NY
As you can see the corporate headquarters are usually located in very cold winter climates.My guess is they might expect everyone in the United States to have really cold winters.My location seldom gets that cold and finding a jacket for my location has been a challenge.
Typical reason why jackets have not fulfilled my requirement is they all seem to be way too heavy and thus feeling way too hot to wear for my winter climate. I think the usual reason is the company headquarters, who is selling these jackets, is located in a much colder climate and they seem to lack some concern for people living in other warmer locations.
My ideal jacket:
Thin outer shell
Wind resistant
Moisture resistant
Two rather large outside pockets zippered
One high outside breast pocket zippered.
Two inside large pockets.
Under arm zipper vents.
Back air vent. (This is a very unusual feature. My bicycle jacket has this.
Full front metal zipper with wind protection flap.
Optional hood
Sleeve thumb holes or velcro sleeve ends or good elastic sleeve ends.
Must-have features: side zip pockets, chest zip pocket, full-front zipper with high collar and hood, water-repellent construction, stretch thumbhole cuffs.
But, the zipper on this jacket is made of plastic and I have had two failures. It takes a long time to get the zipper back working again.
This jacket is not ideal but when almost all the jacket manufacturers seem to be out of touch, this jacket, so far, works for me.
Thin outer shell. YES
Wind resistant. YES
Moisture resistant. YES
Two rather large outside pockets zippered. YES
One high breast pocket zippered. YES
Two inside large pockets. NO
Under arm zipper vents. NO
Back air vent. NO
Full front zipper with wind protection flap. YES
Optional hood. YES
Sleeve thumb holes. YES
March 6, 2021 I just discovered a near perfect jacket that is almost meets all my needs. It is 32 Cool that I found at COSTCO. But, so far I can NOT find any identification as to the item number that helps me to help you find it. I picked a blue color, “NAVY” which has a very bright red inner liner. The COSTCO item number is “1484906”. Caution: 32 Cool fails to show this jacket item number. COSTCO web site fails to show this item number in stock. A COSTCO employee told me that the item number “1484906” did show in his store inventory but might not show as an inventory item in another store location. You might want to call your local COSTCO to see if they have this in stock and confirm it is this jacket. Also, this jacket is a seasonal item and I expect it to disappear from their current stock soon.
Thin outer shell. YES
Wind resistant. YES
Moisture resistant. YES
Two rather large outside pockets zippered. YES
One high breast pocket zippered. YES
Two inside large pockets. YES
Under arm zipper vents. NO
Back air vent. NO
Full front metal zipper with wind protection flap. YES
Optional hood. YES
Sleeve thumb holes or velcro sleeve ends or good elastic sleeve ends. YES. (It does have velcro at the end of both arm sleeves.)
