I was in bed last evening not 10 minutes ahead of 9 p.m. even though my wife was home ─ she was in her two sons' den area, so she was hardly alone when my younger brother arrived home from wherever he had been drinking.
That was actually my cue to get to bed.
And I was to get some sleep. I never checked the time again until possibly as late as 12:48 a.m., so that was when I rose to soon get to work adding content into the website post that I have been working on since at least early December.
My brother had evidently long since retired for the night, for there was no activity in his bedroom ─ all was silent. He usually spends 15 - 20 minutes with his nighttime ritual of things like brushing his teeth and shaving in his en suite shower room.
My wife was still up, but she eventually relocated from the dining nook downstairs to our bedroom.
We had lots of rain overnight, for I was up until just after 5 a.m. Today never dried out, and it has been raining again since the latter afternoon. I was out in our backyard toolshed early this afternoon for some exercise before having my day's first meal, and I discovered that the roof has evidently sprung a serious leak over a table-like work space attached to the wall like a very wide shelf. It contains lots of rustable metallic items and wooden sections and objects, and much of the area is either heavily damp or else outright wet.
Since we will be getting a few months of this sort of weather, something will have to be done to avoid utter ruination, for the shed has no heating and mildew and mould will next be an issue.
DIY roof repair is probably not something we should be attempting at this time of year. I think it would be better to just cover that half of the small shed roof with a large plastic sheet or similar tarpaulin. That would best be a limber task for one of my two stepsons ─ I'm 71, and my brother is 68. We oughtn't to be climbing about on sloped shed roofs.
My wife had to work today with a 4 p.m. start at the Thai restaurant that employs her part-time, so she left her circa 3:30 p.m. My brother had left for the afternoon maybe two hours earlier.
I never did benefit from a nap today, despite rising this morning a little before 8:30 a.m. In fact, I was up before my brother was. I intended to seek one as soon as my wife left, but instead I opted to cater to my sordid endorphin addiction.
Thereafter, with burned-out, weary eyes, I was sorely tempted to nap, but it was already well after 5:30 p.m. Thus, in a sort of punishing penance of a healthy sort, I forced myself to undertake an exercise session that was scheduled but which I had darned near blown off.
Better than 20 minutes of that served to robustly circulate my blood, lymph, and related fluids with profound effect, and even my eyes were refreshed with that overall suffusion. Had I not managed that reviving activity, I would never have been able to countenance the stress and wear that working on this post would have inflicted upon my poor eyes.
I want to declare how much I am enjoying our new SUSAY T95Q Amlogic S905X2 Android 9.0 TV Box that arrived from Amazon.ca last Thursday, but which we did not start putting into use until Friday. We had gone five days without an Android TV Box, for our T9 Android 8.1 TV Box died at some point in the weest a.m. of last Sunday.
The Box I ordered can be seen here for however long the product link remains valid, but what appears to be the same Box can also be seen at Amazon.com here
I was invited via E-mail by Amazon.ca near midnight on January 9 to give my review, but I only got around to doing so the next evening. Then this morning, I was notified that my admittedly rambling and excruciatingly long review was accepted and published.
But I am not going to link to it.
In my experimentation today, I figured how to deal with a BitChute.com video that I just could not get to play in one of the browser 'apps' that I have downloaded into the Box. I came here to my computer and downloaded the 62GB / 63GB video into a flash drive that I inserted into a USB port on the Android TV Box.
When I was unable to fathom how to get the download to play, I did a little research and read an instruction to download an 'app' called ES File Explorer from Google Play store. There was no such precise 'app', but I chose instead ES File Manager | File Explorer and downloaded that; and then after some fussing and tweaking, I was finally able to get an option to appear that asked me how I wanted to open the video file.
My favourite player in the Box is MX Player (if I am remembering the exact player name correctly), so I selected that, and found that my download was going to play without issue.
However, it is something that I want my brother to watch too, so I will save it for the latter part of tomorrow morning.
It is afterh 8 p.m. now, so I must finish with today's post so that I can be prepared to hightail it to bed once I become aware that my brother has arrived home. I want to get to bed early again. Besides, I am too tired to be sitting up late watching T.V. with him.
It sounds like the rain comes and goes now ─ we're under the whim of drifting rain clouds, I expect.
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