I am unsure if my wife worked at all this week at the Thai restaurant that employs her part-time. I suppose she has, but only one or two partial days. Her ongoing presence here at home is impairing my ability to blog or to work on my website's first post. (I recently set up my domain MyRetirementDream.com with a new web host, and totally abandoned its entire database at its previous web host.)
She didn't spend the night here two night ago, so I was somewhat caught off guard when she phoned me early yesterday afternoon to have me soak some "sticky" (glutinous) rice for her. She said that she would be home a while later.
Her absence that previous night allowed me to get out early yesterday a.m. for a quick expedition afoot to the outdoor ATM at the Coast Capital Savings headquarters building about a mile away, over by the King George SkyTrain Station. I had $170 in cash that I wanted to deposit. The money was a payment my wife made to me at least a week earlier after I paid her Rogers cellphone bill for her online.
The outing was my first walk since Sunday morning October 4 ─ not a good thing at all! I need more leg activity than that. At least I try to do my version of Hindu squats every couple or so days ─ I'm targetting a set of 200 repetitions now. There must be some reasonable benefit to that challenge.
The ATM venture saw me leave here around 3:50 a.m.; and on my return trip, I stopped at an elementary school to do four sets of pull-ups on a set of gymnastic-style rings available in its playground. I'm pathetic ─ I require far more practice. I only managed three full pull-ups in the first set, and then just one each in the other three sets.
Maybe I will try to get out each night when my wife is not here ─ that is, if I manage to get to bed early the evening before, and do not end up sitting up late with my younger brother in the operation of our Android TV Box to access episodes of some of the T.V. series we follow in common.
Such an overnight exercise venture will also only be possible if I do not have some early-morning shopping expedition planned, but those outings only ever occur on Saturday or Sunday mornings. Thus, it is conceivable that I should be able to get out for exercise two or three times each week. It may not seem like much, but it's a far cry from no such outings whatsoever as has been my case for the past months.
I thought that I would be sitting up late last evening, for my brother arrived home well ahead of the 8:30 p.m. deadline that is in place for him which he knows nothing about. I was prepared to donate the time to him that evening, but he began wasting time. First, he went upstairs to his bedroom, probably to change clothes. However, he was hardly swift about coming back downstairs.
And then he went into the kitchen to open a can of beer and start availing himself of the fare my wife had earlier prepared for everyone's supper. But he dallied and dallied, and even started pounding on something ─ perhaps something he took out of the fridge's freezer compartment.
As well, he was occasionally making guttural sounds ─ an irritating (to me) throat-clearing that he only engages in when he is quite drunk.
By this time 8:30 p.m. had been well exceeded, so I rebelled concerning my earlier commitment to sit up and watch our shows with him. I estimated that he was unreasonably intoxicated and would probably be passing out during the first episode I had planned to tune in, thereby forcing me to have to re-watch the infernal thing all over again at some future date when his presently beer-enfeebled brain would be able sustain consciousness and a full focus on the production.
Sure, he had arrived home before the 8:30 p.m. deadline, but he might as well not have. He was already swilling beer again, and we had not even begun watching any of our shows. Thus, in clear conscience, I left the T.V. on its basic cable programming and came upstairs to immediately put myself to bed.
My wife was shut up in this small room where I keep my computer, immediately next to our bedroom.
I acquired some sleep over the ensuing very few hours, and then checked the time at 12:48 a.m. and decided that it was time for me to rise for my usual overnight vigil that is the norm if I go to bed early.
My wife was still here in this room, but when she heard me using the bathroom, she finally came forth to begin readying for her own bedtime.
At this moment it is 3:48 a.m. ─ I have now been up for nigh three hours, yet I have not managed to put any work into my website post. I first wanted to create a post in my private blog, and that took exceptionally long. And now I am laying the foundation for a post here in my public blog, and I find myself already flagging. In truth, I feel more like getting back to bed than attempting any constructive work on that website post.
Will I ever get the thing completed and online!?
By the way, yesterday morning just after 10 a.m., I finally tuned in Dr. Joseph Mercola's interview with Technocracy expert Patrick Wood: Patrick Wood Discusses Technocracy. My brother watched nearly all of it, going upstairs once to probably relieve himself.
It was long! I could never have sat through it trying to watch it here on my computer. But with an Android TV Box and the proper 'apps' ─ in this case, a browser 'app' ─ we watched the video on T.V.
I have yet to wear a face mask ─ I have never even tried one on. I will not shop in a store where masks are mandated. I wish there was some equivalent here in Canada to the CitizensForFreeSpeech.org "No Mask" card.
I know that there are efforts here in Canada to flog relatively bogus similar cards, but I am only interested in a legitimate 'grass roots' campaign. I would never wear any card that falsely claimed that I had a health condition that would be exacerbated by a face mask; rather, I would want something accurately identifying that there is no legal requirement for me to have to be wearing one.
The problem with any such latter card is that I do believe that businesses may actually have the legal right to insist on face masks. But I haven't researched the issue. I simply shop where I am welcome without the need to be wearing a mask.
My eyes are burned out ─ I have to break. And it's already 4:23 a.m. ─ I have no time now to work on my website's post.
It seemed to rain all night and throughout the morning, but the afternoon has been dry.
My wife headed off on her relatively long drive to work late this morning ─ I think she has an 11 a.m. start at the job. Typically, she spends her weekends somewhere in Vancouver (such is my sorry marriage), so I am not expecting her home until at least Sunday afternoon, and maybe not even until Monday.
As yet today, I have not performed any work on my website's first post, so I want to finish this blog post and perhaps finally get back to my website.
First, though, I want to comment on the current B.C. provincial election ─ advance voting is now possible.
I don't want to have to vote on election day because polling locations tend to be practically overrun. However, my specific electoral district only has one advance voting location, and it's about 2¼ miles from my home.
Yet the neighbouring electoral district has several possible locations for advance voting, and one of them is only about three blocks from here.
Why the blazes can't I vote there?
This Elections.BC.ca article titled Where to Vote says this:
Vote at a district electoral office
Now until 4 p.m. (Pacific time) on Saturday, October 24
You can vote at ANY district electoral office in the province from now until 4 p.m. (Pacific time) on October 24. Offices will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturdays. They will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. during advance voting.
If that is true ─ and keep in mind that the ballots for each electoral district are different because the electoral districts all have entirely different candidates ─ then wouldn't it suggest that absolutely every electoral district's voting locations would have to have a supply of ballots that are specific to each and every other electoral district?
What is the likelihood of that?
I hate the idea of showing up to vote at that nearby voting location for my neighbouring electoral district, and be turned away because they were not equipped to accommodate me. It would be bloody embarrassing.
And I would have wasted that day's voting opportunity, for I only intend to vote by arriving at the voting location as soon after its 8 a.m. opening as possible. If I have not even begun my hike to my own electoral district's sole voting location and it's already after 8 a.m., then I am just not going to go. I can't stand being out in the busy public ─ especially to walk that sort of distance, and then make the return hike. Street vehicular and human foot traffic would abound ─ the very things that I abhor, and which make me an early-morning person where walking anywhere is concerned.
I also want to mention that some of my physical resources today have been expended trying to research how to get my Windows 10 operating system to go beyond sitting at "Pending download" where installing updates is concerned ─ I discovered yesterday that I have not been benefitting from any updates.
I was never able to find an easy solution, and one solution that was presented proved to be bogus ─ false advertising to con hapless idiots like me into downloading a programme called Restoro. It offered nothing for free after running its comprehensive scan that was supposed to be the first step in repairing my Windows 10's ills.
I had found negative and positive reports about Restoro, but I now believe that the actual positive articles that promoted the product were all likely published by Restoro agents. Not one of those glowing reports mentioned that Restoro would do nothing for free except run a scan ─ a scan, by the way, that found many hundreds of damaged files just awaiting Restoro's magic touch.
If my system had so many damaged files ─ especially those of a registry nature ─ I doubt that my computer would even be functioning!
To finally be rid of Restoro I had to resort to Malwarebytes. So don't get suckered by anything good that you read concerning this deceitful product.
As for my "Pending download" problem, I never did correct it. However, I was able to manually download some of the updates by locating the exact ones I needed at Microsoft itself.
One of the updates ─ 2020-09 Update for Windows 10 Version 1909 for x64-based Systems (KB4023057) ─ has yet to be made available in their catalog. From now on, I will keep a regular check on my "Windows Update" sub-section in my Control Panel's "Update & Security" section.
Well, wouldn't you know it ─ I've squandered away my afternoon and the early part of my evening. It is nearly 7 p.m., and I find myself left with no time to work on my website.
It is very likely that my younger brother will fail to be home by 8:30 p.m., so I ought to be able to get to bed early. If so, this will surely allow me some time overnight to work on that first post I so desperately need to get published.
Right now, I feel like a drink or two ─ along with some T.V. before my brother shows up.
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