It seems that my younger brother is committed to having some drinking buddy of his get around to installing a torch on roof to our backyard toolshed despite an article I revealed to him this morning that warned against such roofing.
I have no idea what the ultimate charge will be once the agreement is settled, but at least it's a small toolshed with a sloped roof of the gable variety; and it is not our actual home that is going to receive the treatment.
I had him look at the article around 8:45 a.m., incidentally. Then around 9 a.m. he alerted me that it was snowing rather vigourously outside. Unlike our previous bid to snow early this past Sunday morning, there was no rain mixed into it, so we thought that we might be in for some Winter at last. We've only had one fall of snow that lasted for a few days ─ that was within a few days of the arrival of Christmas, and maybe two inches' worth at best.
My youngest stepson had to head off to work in the falling snow this morning, and I later learned that he was hoping it was going to snow all day.
But it did not. It turned to rain just as some of the surfaces out there were beginning to blanket with white; and by midday nothing of it remained anywhere.
I want to update on our Vizio T.V. and the turning off of its 'surround sound' in a bid to do away with the atrocious blaring of music and sound effects on T.V. shows that are so loud that the volume has to be at a setting that makes hearing conversation extremely difficult.
I bought that T.V. back in the Summer of 2008, by the way ─ it's still going strong.
Anyway, I got a chance to put the adjustment to the test when I was watching T.V. with my brother late this morning via our Android TV Box. I first tuned in the seventh season premiere of Arrow; and then the fourth season premiere of Supergirl. Both series are well known as having this faulty sound issue ─ booming background effects, but indistinct conversation at the same sound level.
Well, I am pleased to say that removing the surround sound feature did minimize the sound effects and music. However, another problem with these series is that the speech always comes through as being muffled, and this has not changed. It is evidently an issue with how the shows have been recorded and dubbed. Poor workmanship, basically. Too much attention has been given to visuals and explosive sound effects and music; and very little attention to the delivery of quality dialogue sound.
Such a deep shame.
When I watch latter morning / midday shows with my brother, I like to try and lead the viewing off with one or more videos related to the Great Reset and the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic scam (better named "the scamdemic" or "the plandemic").
This morning was no different, but I have come to realize that the browser 'apps' that I have downloaded into our Android TV Box ─ and I have at least four browser 'apps' ─ just will not play BitChute videos anymore.
This afternoon while browsing the Web to understand why this might be, I discovered that I have been wasting my time by trying to tune in the videos with any Web browsers ─ there are actually a couple of 'apps' for BitChute just like there are YouTube 'apps'.
I don't know why this never occurred to me before.
I've downloaded one into our Box called BitSlide.
That website links to this download site: https://app.bitchute.com/bitslide/. And when I went there, I saw this:
I don't know if that screenshot will open up well enough for you or not ─ it looks very small there in my post.
At any rate, I could see that the two 'apk' packages there seemed to be identical, so I opted to download the one given the longer title of bitslide_1_19_0_1.apk.
And it seems to be what I needed, but I won't know until I give it a run.
After I downloaded it was when I discovered that there is actually a genuine BitChute 'app' as shown at this APKpure.com link: BitChute. However, unlike the BitSlide 'app' that can also be found at APKpure.com here, the BitChute 'app' has not been updated since January of last year, whereas the BitSlide 'app' has just recently been updated and has had many other recent updates over the course of 2020.
Oh my gosh, it is almost 7 p.m. ─ I want to watch a Christmas movie and have a beer or two, so I have to get this post finished. My brother bused away to a pub to hook up with one or more of his drinking buddies, so I do not expect him back until after 9 p.m.
This is my one day of the week in which I have much reasonable assurance of seeing such a movie.
At least I have weaned myself of listening to Christmas music when I sit up overnight here at my computer working on different tasks. I now tune in Megaton Cafe Radio which plays music spanning from the 1920s all the way throughout the 1950s.
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