Yesterday's post left off with me in consterned anguish because I had wanted to get to bed by 8:00 p.m. to escape an eyestrain headache and considerable overall discomfort brought on by that and inadequate sleep of late; and then just after 6:00 p.m., my younger brother waltzed into the house, home from whatever bar he'd been swilling beer at, and all set to sit and watch T.V. for the next six hours.
Well, I could not and would not do it. He would want me to operate our T9 Android 8.1 TV Box for the evening so that he would not have to have an exclusive diet of basic cable T.V. programming, and my wellbeing could not cope with anything of the sort.
And so without a word to him, by about 6:15 p.m. I was into my bed, and reasonably soon enough I managed to find some delightful sleep.
I sleep in most fractured fashion. Thus it was that around 1½ hours later, I was awake once again. However, I felt remarkably restored. In fact, I decided to rise, for my eyestrain headache was abated.
I was to find that my brother was watching the tail end of a comedy, so I fetched some supper and joined him. And then I took over and used our Android TV Box to locate a source for a movie I had in mind ─ 2017's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.
We had seen the first movie a year or more ago, so I knew what to expect, and it was quite a lot of fun.
And its climaxing scenes were sometimes emotion-wrenching ─ to me, that means a lot from a movie.
I immediately liked the character Mantis as played by Pom Klementieff ─ she was adorably cute. She also looked very familiar, but I now see that there would be no reason for that, for I have not seen her act in anything before that would have made her features familiar.
With that said, though, it seems that I did watch her a year or two ago in the ridiculous but interesting and exciting 2013 movie Oldboy ─ she played a fantastically-skilled and deadly martial-artist bodyguard. As such, she definitely stood out and made me research her at the time, but I had since pretty much forgotten her. As a consequence, there is no question that she would not have been familiar to me now.
Following the movie, we watched an episode each of two T.V. series we follow, and by then it was well into the midnight hour, and my brother was ready to call it a night.
My wife had arrived home around 10:30 p.m. following her long day working at her friend's Thai restaurant, and she was still sitting up when I was prepared to go to bed. I alerted her to my intention, and she responded that she would soon be coming to bed as well ─ she is one of those who can spend unimaginable amounts of time lost in the screen of her largish smartphone.
So I popped a melatonin tablet, and to bed I went.
I was still awake ─ but wearing poor earplugs and a makeshift blindfold ─ when my wife came to bed. It was admittedly a comfort having her there sharing the bed ─ I admit that.
I had every intention of remaining abed for as long as I was comfortable ─ none of this rising extremely early to put in work on a post at one of my six hosted websites.
As it turned out, I never rose until maybe 7:45 a.m., and I felt considerably refreshed at long last. Nevertheless, there is still the remotest vestige of that eyestrain headache ─ a reminder to not keep overdoing the shortchange of my sleep.
My brother probably emerged from his bedroom an hour after I did mine, and he of course was soon watching T.V. while I remained upstairs here at my computer.
My wife rose around 9:30 a.m. at very latest, and was soon engaged in some cooking. She normally doesn't rise until around 10:00 a.m. when she has her 11:00 a.m. start at the restaurant, but quite apart from the cooking, she likely wanted to be able to get away on her drive to work in good time because of the amount of snow we recently received hereabouts.
She was to get away in very good time on that drive soon after I joined my brother and put our Android TV Box back into operation shortly after 10:00 a.m.
The first show I tuned in for us was the season 19 finale of America's Got Talent. We had watched all of the other episodes for the season.
I never said aught to my brother, but I do not think that I am going to bother with any of these types of talent shows anymore. Did the winner deserve above all other contestants to come out on top? Not in my mind. And the runner-up didn't merit his placement, either.
I am tired of sitting through entire long seasons to see someone win who only won through public sentimentality, and not through his or her sheer skill that was excruciatingly developed and honed ─ perhaps even at the risk of life.
I feel I am wasting my time with such shows. So...no more.
I'll stick with athletic competitions such as the Ninja Warrior series ─ my brother and I of course follow the American series, but we have even been following the British and Australian versions, too. Maybe we'll now branch out and sample a non-English country's version.
The deep freeze may have ended two days ago, but we're still hovering around the freezing point, not climbing much above it during the day.
With some sunshine out there today, I decided to take a few photos.
These first four were taken around 11:41 a.m. while I was looking out of our living room window:
The backyard was still too shaded, so I waited until 1:25 p.m. / 1:26 p.m. to take these three shots from the sliding glass door that opens up to our sundeck:
This may be the final time this Winter that we see snow of this quality.
Before I close, I want to mention how surprised I was after yesterday's early evening nap when I came here to my computer to find that Microsoft was alerting me to an important Windows 7 update ─ supposedly, support had ended for Windows 7 as of January 14.
Well, I no sooner got the thing downloaded and installed after a computer restart, when I saw one further update alert!
So of course I also accepted that one.
I am seriously afraid that my computer will 'die' if I attempt to upgrade to Windows 10, for my machine is over a decade old and has problems.
Notwithstanding, I do hope to take advantage of a free upgrade if any are still available in the next week or so. First, though, I want to finally finish and publish the post I have been working on since early in the month at one of my six hosted websites.
If I am to lose use of my computer, I do not want it to happen until that post has been published. I am far too deep in debt to be able to afford a new computer ─ it would take a lottery windfall to make it possible.
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