I am on their E-mailing list, and so I periodically have these invitations to online questionnaires or extended polls arrive.
One had arrived yesterday, but I never checked it out until just before my bedtime. It turned out to probably be the longest one that I have yet been involved with, and largely dealt with COVID-19 issues.
One of the questions was one that I distanced myself from answering in full honesty. I don't recall the exact wording, but it related to online streaming and was something to the effect of, "Do you find yourself illegally downloading more entertainment now than you did before the lockdowns?"
My younger brother and I use a T9 Android 8.1 TV Box to access episodes of a myriad of T.V. series that we follow, as well as movies.
But we don't download and save any of it.
So does streaming constitute downloading anyway? Or is streaming T.V. shows and movies something quite apart from actually downloading and then saving the entertainment?
In that latter scenario, I know that some people download and then make copies of the material that they may then potentially distribute.
Would anyone honestly admit in a poll that this is something they do?
I forget what I responded to the question with. I think that one of the response options was that nothing had changed for me in that context from how things were prior to the lockdowns or shutdowns, so I chose that as my answer if it was indeed one of the options.
I'm 70 years old; my brother will be 68 in the Summer. We have no use for T.V. shows or movies that have been downloaded and saved. We just watch something that we have streamed, and then move on.
There have been two or three occasions in which the feature buffered so badly as to be unwatchable; and no better streaming sources for it were offered. So I have downloaded the feature to watch later; but once it was watched, it was deleted.
I don't need our Android TV Box cluttered up with data-heavy T.V. shows or movies; and we have no additional or removable memory or storage media to which we could instead insert into our device and then perform a download, thereby avoiding clogging up our device with stored data.
I'm not interested in trafficking in pirated media. And at my age, there is so much new material to watch, there is no sense in me retaining anything just in case I feel that I might want to rewatch it one day at some far removed future date. That day may not exist for me at this stage in my life.
And I see that I have gotten myself sidetracked. All I intended to do was explain why I got to bed as late last evening as I did.
After getting to sleep, I eventually found myself awake enough to be curious about the time: it was perhaps 3:30 a.m. So I rose to put work into the post I am developing at one of my six hosted websites.
I was not to return to bed until after 7:00 a.m.
Sleep is never easy initially. And after some arrived, I was next awake and curious enough to be checking the time shortly ahead of 9:30 a.m. ─ it may have been nearer 9:00 a.m. My brother was already up and seated downstairs at the dining table, reading the Saturday morning edition of the Vancouver Sun that I subscribe to.
I remained here upstairs to work further on that website post, breaking from it just after 10:00 a.m. to go and prepare my day's first hot caffeinated beverage.
Then late in the forenoon I changed into a pair of gym shorts and a tank top so I could have a comfortable workout session in the backyard toolshed ─ the day was sunny and very warm. At this point, my brother was watching T.V.
I had my workout ─ it only takes 10 or 15 minutes, but it's extremely strenuous on me.
Then it was time for me to sun myself. Beginning at 12:11 p.m., I put in just over 20 minutes sunning the back of me; and then another 20 minutes sunning my front.
When I came back into the house, my brother was still at the T.V.; but as I was changing back into my regular clothes, I heard him shut himself up into his bedroom to rest up before driving off later in the afternoon to do whatever it is that he does when he takes off for the afternoon on any given day.
After the clothing change, I had my day's first meal; and then I sought a nap. I was up again not too very long after 2:00 p.m. and found my brother already gone.
It is 4:18 p.m. as I type these words, and a second hot caffeinated beverage on top of that earlier meal have me feeling overburdened and logy. Even so, if I lived somewhere well removed from the overdevelopment and overpopulation that characterizes my environment, I would get out there and have an extended walk.
I have always hated being in the public, and this quirk has only become far worse in my older age.
So I will be remaining home for the rest of the day, and have nothing further to merit blogging about. Perhaps I can at least add yet more content into that website post if I bring this post to a closure.
I will do just that now.
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