All was not particularly well with me yesterday, and following my substantial midday meal, by suppertime I was not yet hungry ─ specifically, I had no appetite. Perhaps it was fortunate, though, for my wife was shut up in our bedroom, and that's where I keep my nutritional supplements.
I don't like having a meal without any. And since I eat but twice a day, I have a regimen of supplements that applies for both of those meals.
I was to learn what I had suspected ─ my wife was napping.
By the time she emerged from our bedroom, it became obvious that she was leaving us for the night despite being so dopey from her deep nap that I had concerns in relation to the safety of her driving ─ she was getting set to leave around 9:30 p.m. after all.
But she was determined; and so for the first time since she showed up unexpectedly at approximately 12:20 a.m. early Monday, I was to have the night in bed entirely to myself.
While she was napping and I was killing time in the living room watching T.V. (I could only stand short periods at my computer because of how my well-being had declined), I had even resorted to a stiff shot of golden or amber rum. It may have helped.
Very soon after she left, my younger brother showed up from the pub he had bused off to in order to hook up with one or more drinking buddies. But by then, I was in bed.
I managed some sleep, but found myself awake again at 11:10 p.m. Initially I tried for a return to sleep, but I soon enough recognized the effort as being futile, so I rose and came here to my computer (which I keep in a small room next to my bedroom).
My brother was watching T.V. downstairs, and appeared alert enough ─ that is, he was not passed out.
He was to retire to his bedroom quite early into the midnight hour, but I remained up until just after 4 a.m. Under any other circumstances, I would have seized the opportunity to rise awhile later in order to head off and do some grocery shopping, but I was simply too below par to inflict such a challenge upon myself.
Instead, I determined to remain in bed and acquire as much sleep as I could muster.
As it turned out, I think that I just fell shy of 8:40 a.m. when I checked the time and opted to rise for the morning. I wanted to have a bath 'first thing'. My brother was already downstairs watching T.V. when I emerged from my bedroom.
I accomplished the bath, and then came here to my computer. And here is where I have been since then as I type these words at 10:21 a.m.
It seems we will be having a rain-free day. And as yet, I am secure in the belief that the new Amazon TV Box that I ordered from Amazon.ca has not yet arrived, for I am confident that my brother would have let me know.
The Box was "guaranteed" to be delivered today ─ I had ordered it Sunday afternoon after discovering that our Box had died in the early a.m., and nothing we attempted could encourage it to load beyond the T9 logo screen where it would consistently freeze into utter paralysis.
In my rush to purchase a new Box, I did not take the time to research and discern what to me now seems to be an ideal device. The Box that is supposed to come today is a SUSAY brand T95Q Amlogic S905X2 Android 9.0 TV Box; and like our old Box, it has 4GBs RAM and 64GBs ROM.
However, this new purchase's RAM is tied in with DDR4, whereas our defunct box was DDR3.
I don't at this moment have the specifics on our old Box's CPU details (the SUSAY Box's CPU is Amlogic S905X2). [NB: I later checked and found that ours is a Quad-Core Cortex-A53, so it was quite different. The actual Box can be seen here, provided that the link remains valid. The brand was indicated as being T95.]
Anyway, had I properly researched before making Sunday's purchase, I wish now that I had ordered Shenzhen's Magicsee N6 Plus Amlogic S922X Android TV Box ─ especially after seeing this year-old review at gearbest.com: Magicsee N6 Plus vs Beelink GT-King Most Power vs UGOOS AM6 Pro vs Beelink GT-King Pro TV Box with the Latest Amlogic S9.
The only flaw with the review is that I cannot find a Magicsee N6 with a 128GBs ROM capacity. They all seem to be 64GBs at best.
But what truly elevates the Magicsee N6 Plus over the SUSAY T95Q that I ordered on Sunday is that the Magicsee can stream at 1000m (or 10/100/1000, or 1 Gigabit) Ethernet or LAN, whereas the SUSAY can only stream 10/100m.
I'm still fuzzy on all of that, but you can gain a serious inkling of what this signifies by checking out this 2018 HowToGeek.com article: Gigabit Ethernet vs. Fast Ethernet: What’s the Difference?
That streaming ability or capacity will make a huge difference when it comes to handling high-data movie streams, for surely it would result in a smoother data flow without ongoing buffering.
The Magicsee N6 Plus Amlogic S922X Android TV Box is presently my front-runner, but I may well change my mind by the time I ever get around to placing an order. Sometimes I wonder about the X88 King Amlogic S922x Android TV Box which does come with 128GBs ROM.
I can always get extra memory for the Magicsee N6 Plus, of course.
What I find to be rather mysterious is why there do not seem to be any exceptional Android 10 TV Boxes. They either fall short by being DDR3 where RAM counts, or else 10/100m Ethernet (LAN).
My afternoon is winding down, and I think I am in the mood for a Christmas movie that I will have to watch here on my computer, for as yet our new Amazon TV Box has not been delivered.
I will use up the last of the eggnog, making an especially strong rum drink out of it. Then maybe a strong (8% alcohol) beer will also be on the menu.
I've just finished my first meal in a full 24 hours, although I did have that stiff shot of rum last evening, and this afternoon I had one of my delicious hot caffeinated beverages containing lots of sweetening and heavy cream. But other than that, I took in no solids.
I have been intermittent fasting since the Summer, yet I keep hovering around 180 pounds when stripped down and on an empty stomach. Prior to this regimen, I was in the mid-1980s at very most, so it wasn't like I had a huge amount of weight to drop (I'm not quite five feet and 11 inches in height).
I have been telling in the past couple of posts about the several-day fast that I undertook exactly 40 years ago in 1981 when I was 31 years old. As I wrote here yesterday, over the ensuing years, I had always believed that I had lasted for something like 76 hours at best. In other words, three full days and maybe four or so hours more.
Well, in my old journal, I wrote on this day back in 1981 that I was then deep into my fourth day and was going to make it into my fifth day.
Then when I reproduced the old journal entry for today, I finally did break my fast. As I wrote, I had risen a little after 7 a.m. that morning:
I was ravenous, and couldn't see lasting this 5th day without eating.
And I did not last. I managed to exercise first, though. But it's something: 4 full days and approximately 10½ hours without eating. About 8 of those hours can be struck off if that Saturday forenoon cup of apple juice must be considered.
So I actually endured a minimum of 98 hours after discounting the eight hours that I initially marred by inexplicably having a glass of apple juice.
I wrote that one of my discouragements apart from the mad hunger that was not ameliorating despite claims I had read that hunger would virtually disappear after anywhere from three to five days, was the failure to get below 183½ pounds ─ albeit clothed. I had thought to perhaps drop down to a ripped 175 pounds, but there was no sign that any such achievement was coming anytime soon.
I never again attempted a multi-day fast.
But enough ─ I want those drinks and a movie!
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